The Candice Malcolm Show - Wow： the CBC finally gets it RIGHT in exposing the dangers of transitioning minors

00:00:00.000 So two weeks after the CBC in Quebec released a documentary exposing the chilling effects of rapid-onset gender dysphoria onto young girls,

00:00:08.240 trans activists and trans activist journalists are still up in arms, and they're still spreading lies about the harms of these radical procedures.

00:00:15.760 It's Fake News Friday. I'm Candice Malcolm, and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

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00:00:49.840 Okay, so welcome to Fake News Friday. This is our favorite show around here at True North, so thank you so much for tuning in.

00:00:56.520 Last week on the program, we talked about the critics of this Radio Canada documentary called Trans Express, namely Rachel Gilmore, who basically tried to own the CBC and failed spectacularly.

00:01:08.360 You should go check out that episode because we went through in great detail and debunked the many, many things that she tried to say about the documentary that were simply just not accurate.

00:01:17.480 I told you on that episode that I would do a future episode breaking down the documentary because it is in French.

00:01:23.260 It's a longer documentary. It's an hour long.

00:01:26.060 And I think it's worthwhile that everybody knows what's in this documentary, even if you don't want to go and watch an hour-long documentary in French with English subtitles.

00:01:34.200 Or, you know, like me, if you have sort of basic bad French that you learned back in high school and you, you know, trying to translate it, it might be easier for you to just hear from me.

00:01:45.220 I'm going to go through and break down every single thing that happened in the documentary, and I really do think that every Canadian should watch that.

00:01:55.640 Now, before I get into it, I want to point out the irony of me focusing a Fake News Friday episode on actually highlighting and applauding and congratulating CBC journalists because I don't think that has ever happened in the history of this show.

00:02:07.740 I don't think I've ever done an episode where I actually praise CBC, but credit where credit is due.

00:02:12.740 They really did a tremendous job with this documentary.

00:02:15.940 And I'll just, again, put that little caveat that this is the French version of CBC, which is kind of different.

00:02:21.040 It's quite different than the English version of it.

00:02:24.220 It's interesting because even when Pierre Pauly of the Conservative leader talks about defunding the CBC, he doesn't want to defund Radio Canada.

00:02:31.220 Radio Canada is different. It has a different flavor.

00:02:33.440 However, it's still more mainstream in Quebec, and it's not as ideological or radically left or partisan as is English counterpart.

00:02:42.380 Now, don't mistake this for an endorsement of the CBC.

00:02:45.620 I still believe the CBC is terrible and that it deserves to be wholly defunded.

00:02:50.700 And in case you needed any more convincing, there was a story that did break earlier this week that I'm going to quickly highlight.

00:02:56.020 So on Tuesday, we learned that the CBC paid $15 million in bonuses in 2023, this despite mass layoffs that happened at that company.

00:03:06.880 So they dished out $14.9 million in bonuses despite laying off hundreds, hundreds of journalists right around Christmas time.

00:03:13.940 According to documents received by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, the CBC distributed bonuses to 1,143 of its senior staff members back in October.

00:03:22.920 And these numbers only count up to October.

00:03:26.060 They haven't had the data yet from December or November.

00:03:29.360 So expect that figure to potentially rise even higher once those Christmas bonuses are counted.

00:03:34.900 CBC gave 87% of its workforce a pay increase in 2023-2024 fiscal year, amounting to about $11.5 million in increased pay.

00:03:46.700 This is partially probably because the Trudeau government negotiated such a great deal for the CBC with Google.

00:03:53.740 The Online News Act decided that Google would be giving the Canadian government $100 million and then the Trudeau government would get to dole that out.

00:04:00.480 However, they please, the main beneficiary of that Online News Act's $100 million from Google will go to the CBC.

00:04:06.760 And the CBC will also receive, on top of that, an additional $90 million from the Trudeau government in your taxes, in my tax dollars, adding up to a total government funding of $1.4 billion.

00:04:20.700 So this is a state arm.

00:04:22.640 This is Trudeau's media arm of the government.

00:04:25.420 This is state propaganda, $1.4 billion.

00:04:28.100 And yet, despite receiving $1.4 million from the taxpayer to do shoddy, bad journalism, that wasn't enough.

00:04:37.140 Here we had the CBC CEO, Catherine Tate, speaking in front of the Heritage Committee in January, complaining about the CBC's budget, spreading misinformation and lies by saying the CBC is facing budget cuts. 0.90

00:04:51.300 And here she is, just generally being totally useless and totally entitled. 0.96

00:04:55.260 Let's play that clip. 0.95

00:04:55.920 Each year, with cuts to our budget.

00:04:59.740 Unlike the private sector, we cannot manage fluctuations through loans or bridge financing.

00:05:04.580 We must balance our budget each and every year.

00:05:08.140 Over the three years of the pandemic, as revenues plummeted, most media companies had to lay off staff.

00:05:15.500 We shifted resources to maintain services and to protect jobs.

00:05:19.580 And we benefited from $21 million in additional government funding for each of the past three years.

00:05:26.440 But today, our ability to shift resources and find savings is no longer sufficient to meet the growing deficit.

00:05:34.300 So, she's complaining about having to balance her budget every year, something that every small business in Canada, every household in Canada has to do every year.

00:05:42.960 Like, oh, I'm so hard done by.

00:05:45.040 I have to balance my own budget.

00:05:47.480 Complaining about cuts that don't exist.

00:05:49.100 We know that the CBC gets more money every single year.

00:05:53.140 Just, you know, really just a clueless person there trying to play the victim when really we all know that she is not.

00:05:59.460 She is the villain. 0.72

00:06:00.760 Just, you know, we know that the CBC, these are not the good guys.

00:06:03.440 And to add insults to injury, it's not like they're even doing real journalism.

00:06:08.000 They're not doing good journalism.

00:06:09.200 It's not like the CBC is there providing this, you know, amazing service to all Canadians and informing us about the news.

00:06:16.280 That's not what we get from the CBC.

00:06:17.800 We get a fringe, far left, conspiratorial, authoritarian, flat out, agenda driven, often vindictive, often bigoted, very partisan media outlet.

00:06:28.460 So, no, don't trust the CBC and don't take this episode to be any kind of an endorsement for the CBC. 0.97

00:06:34.060 The CBC is terrible and we all know it and I hope it dies as soon as possible.

00:06:38.340 All that being said, I do want to spend the show talking about Trans Express, the documentary which was aired on the investigative journalism program known as Enquête.

00:06:46.760 It was 45 minutes.

00:06:48.040 It was an hour long with television commercials.

00:06:50.800 But the raw documentary, which you can see on YouTube, is 45 minutes.

00:06:55.280 Like I said, it's in the French language.

00:06:56.560 It does an excellent job chronicling the process of medical transition among minors in Quebec.

00:07:02.700 But it also does important investigative journalism, something that no other outlet in Canada has done.

00:07:08.200 They sent a 14-year-old actress into a clinic and she was able to get a prescription for puberty blockers in less than 20 minutes.

00:07:16.240 The first time she had ever seen a doctor, walked in, told him a story.

00:07:19.900 Less than 20 minutes later, she was able to get a prescription to fundamentally begin altering her gender. 0.98

00:07:26.840 Through medical transitioning.

00:07:28.440 So it was really quite something.

00:07:30.820 So unlike many of the radical trans activists who are criticizing the documentary, I actually spent the time to watch it.

00:07:37.600 And I'm going to do my best to walk you through it right now.

00:07:40.600 So first I'm going to do that.

00:07:41.520 I'm going to walk you through the documentary.

00:07:43.580 There were five subjects of the story.

00:07:45.760 Five women who were sort of featured throughout the documentary.

00:07:48.520 And then there were also additional researchers, doctors, therapists, different kind of researchers and experts and specialists, showing both sides of the story.

00:07:58.580 So I'm going to walk you through the research and what we learned.

00:08:01.000 And then finally, I'm going to talk a little bit about the reaction from the trans activists and the journalists themselves went on to a popular Quebec talk show over the weekend called Le Toute de Monde in Parle.

00:08:12.680 And they basically explained who they are, why they made this documentary.

00:08:16.580 So we will get to that at the very end of the episode.

00:08:19.240 So let's get going.

00:08:21.000 The documentary starts by telling us about the purpose, which is to expose a process of so-called gender affirming care, which, as I've talked about in the past, is really just a euphemism for sex change operations, sex change procedures, including drugs and surgery, that they prescribe to gender dysphoric youth.

00:08:37.860 So the documentary explains it specifically focuses on girls and how the medical system, both the public system and the private system, because remember, we're talking about Quebec.

00:08:47.480 Quebec has a private system for health care, unlike the rest of Canadians who are stuck with only government health care.

00:08:53.020 But anyway, both the public and the private and through medication and surgeries, how this allows adolescents to make irreversible changes.

00:09:01.220 So that's what the documentary itself says.

00:09:03.660 They do this by following four teenage girls, all with pre-existing medical conditions and mental illnesses, and how they were basically lured into an unnecessary medical intervention transitioning.

00:09:16.700 Three of the four girls ended up detransitioning.

00:09:19.940 Well, sorry, two of the four girls ended up detransitioning. 1.00

00:09:23.200 One of them basically stops at the last minute and doesn't get the transition.

00:09:27.320 The documentary interviews the four girls, their parents, several doctors, and then we also hear from researchers and activists.

00:09:35.580 There's a great deal of research in the documentary, including highlighting studies, statistics, comparing treatments between what's happening in Quebec with other advanced Western countries, namely Scandinavia, but also the United States.

00:09:49.660 I just want to note that the documentary is not one-sided.

00:09:52.400 It's not something that – it doesn't look like something that we would have produced here at True North.

00:09:57.380 It doesn't look like Matt Walsh's What is a Woman.

00:10:00.460 It's done by the CBC.

00:10:02.220 It presents both sides.

00:10:03.360 It's very neutral.

00:10:05.020 It's very balanced.

00:10:05.880 It's very fair.

00:10:07.000 Probably spends equal time explaining why these transitionings are good and why the transitioning is bad.

00:10:13.560 And I think that that's part of it that's really telling, the fact that the trans activists are so mad that this exists, even though half of the documentary is explaining their perspective and promoting their views. 0.89

00:10:25.700 They don't like the fact that there's even half of a documentary devoted to pointing out the other side of the story.

00:10:32.360 And so I think that tells you a lot about the people who are critical of this documentary.

00:10:37.340 Okay, so let's go through it.

00:10:38.480 So the first person that we meet is a young lady named Clara.

00:10:41.980 Clara is a pseudonym, and she is now 24 years old.

00:10:44.960 We heard that she struggled with her mental illness from the age of eight.

00:10:48.340 She was very anxious, very awkward, especially during puberty.

00:10:52.040 She became very self-critical.

00:10:53.960 She unfortunately, sadly, tried to commit suicide.

00:10:57.200 She tried to kill herself in 2015.

00:10:59.460 And shortly after that suicide attempt, she saw a video on the internet which made her think that she had found the source of all her problems.

00:11:05.560 She decided that she didn't fit into either gender, but she definitely did not want to be a girl anymore.

00:11:10.520 Her mom quickly, you know, affirmed what she was going through and found a psychologist that specialized in gender dysphoria. 0.99

00:11:17.040 So at the age of 15, Clara became a patient, and she was quickly prescribed puberty blockers.

00:11:23.160 A few months later, she started the next phase, which was testosterone, and she noticed that her voice became much deeper, and she started to grow more hair.

00:11:29.880 She noticed that her body was changing, but that did not make her happier.

00:11:33.760 She didn't feel happier, nothing changed with her mood, and she still wanted to commit suicide.

00:11:38.440 We later learned that after four months on the drug, Clara was hospitalized again for a suicide attempt.

00:11:44.200 It was at that point that the doctors began to question her initial diagnosis of gender dysphoria, and the doctors at the hospital she went to made some recommendations.

00:11:52.480 They recommended that she quickly, immediately stop taking testosterone, and that she found a new therapist, because they considered the therapist that was kind of leading her down the path of transitioning wasn't doing her job, and that she needed to find a new therapist.

00:12:05.920 Well, Clara ignored both those recommendations. 0.99

00:12:08.800 She went straight back home after leaving the hospital to talk to her gender-affirming therapist again, and she continued to take the testosterone.

00:12:15.720 Clara said that she was 100% passing for a teenage boy at this point.

00:12:20.040 She was wearing binders over her breasts, which basically tape down your chest so that it doesn't look like you have any breasts. 1.00

00:12:27.000 She said that those were very uncomfortable.

00:12:29.000 For that reason, she decided to move forward with the surgery, and she did go ahead and receive a double mastectomy.

00:12:35.840 This is at age 17, after being on drugs for two and a half years.

00:12:40.160 We then heard from her parents, who said it was almost the next day, maybe a day or two later, that we all saw that she had made a mistake.

00:12:47.520 Clara came back and said, even though I had my breasts removed, I still felt like I had women's breasts, and I couldn't look at the mirror. 0.84

00:12:53.760 I avoided looking at myself in the mirror.

00:12:56.760 And then by the age of 20, she was completely done with the whole trans thing. 1.00

00:13:00.640 She started wearing a wig and got breast implants so that she would look more like a woman. 0.98

00:13:05.920 So by the age of 20, she was back to wanting to be a woman.

00:13:09.140 So that's the story of the first person, Clara.

00:13:12.080 Let's move on to the second subject, is a woman named Jane. 0.99

00:13:15.840 So we meet Jane.

00:13:16.800 We learn that she had always been a tomboy, and she always felt a little bit more masculine.

00:13:21.640 She said that she was watching a live stream of a trans person who had come out to their family, and everybody was so happy and so proud.

00:13:28.940 And it made her feel really good for that person that she was watching to be trans.

00:13:33.820 Sadly, we learned with this case, with this woman, Jane, that she was raped in 2020, and that she was dealing with the trauma of that rape as a teenager. 0.61

00:13:43.340 She said that she kept thinking that if she was a man, if she was a guy, she would have never been raped.

00:13:47.720 This would have never happened.

00:13:48.640 She said she had a feeling of disgust about being a woman over the event.

00:13:53.780 She basically knew that she wanted to transition. 1.00

00:13:56.280 She wanted testosterone. 1.00

00:13:59.120 So she went to her family doctor, quickly received a referral, went to a specialist at a clinic at the McGill University in Montreal.

00:14:05.820 So this is at age 16.

00:14:07.460 After two consultations, she received her first prescription for puberty blockers in 2022.

00:14:13.060 And I'll show you this clip.

00:14:14.700 It's in French, but she is documenting her journey and what it looked like as she transitioned from a girl to a boy.

00:14:21.620 So you can just see how quickly, you know, one month, two months, three months, four months, she goes from looking feminine and like a girl to having a deep voice and looking like a man.

00:14:30.820 Let's play that clip.

00:14:31.400 So the documentary later tells us that one and a half years after her first dose, Jane received a double mastectomy, had both her breasts removed at the age of 18.

00:14:52.840 I'll just add my own observations to this subject, Jane, here.

00:14:55.680 She actually seemed like a pretty happy person and I didn't think that she was going to end up being a detransitioner. 1.00

00:15:00.180 The way that they showed her, the way that they showed her transition, she struck me as a very happy-go-lucky person.

00:15:05.680 She didn't really seem mentally ill, but she was dealing with the trauma of being raped as a teenager.

00:15:11.060 I think she was 15 when that happened.

00:15:13.120 And so I didn't expect that later in the documentary, she would be one of the people that came to regret her choices because in the clips that we saw, she actually seemed pretty happy.

00:15:21.700 But later in the documentary, as I say, we did learn that Jane also became a detransitioner. 0.97

00:15:26.480 And at the end of the documentary, we're told that, like Clara, Jane realized shortly after her double mastectomy surgeries that she had made a huge mistake.

00:15:35.100 She said this, regrets came weeks later when the bandages came off and I saw my new body.

00:15:39.800 She did not like what she saw.

00:15:41.380 And she immediately wrote to her surgeon asking if she could be reconstructed.

00:15:45.860 Now, this is the incredibly ironic part of the documentary of her story, because as soon as Jane said that she didn't like what she had done, she made a mistake and she wanted to detransition, what was she told?

00:15:56.880 She was told that she would have to wait.

00:15:59.320 She was told that she needed a psychiatric assessment that would last for more than a year.

00:16:04.380 And she was told that the whole process would probably take her three years.

00:16:08.600 So when she wanted to transition, she had all of this support.

00:16:11.820 She had all the resources, all of this encouragement.

00:16:14.820 And then as soon as it was the other direction and she wanted to detransition, none of that existed.

00:16:19.260 She was told that she had to wait.

00:16:20.760 She had to slow down, that she needed to see more health professionals.

00:16:24.360 And she was basically told just to wait.

00:16:27.720 Her own surgeon told her that if it had been her own child, she would have slowed down the process.

00:16:33.540 She would have not wanted it to go as quickly as it did for Jane, because children need to have a time to think.

00:16:39.980 Imagine hearing that.

00:16:40.780 Imagine being a young woman who feels like you made a mistake.

00:16:43.220 And then all of a sudden the professionals, medical professionals around you whom you trusted told you that, you know, you had to wait and that you probably did make a mistake.

00:16:52.500 And if it was their own kids, they wouldn't have let them do that.

00:16:54.920 It's so harsh and so sad.

00:16:56.860 Okay, let's move on to our third subject.

00:16:59.600 Here is a woman named Antoinette. 0.99

00:17:02.020 And I believe this is also a pseudonym.

00:17:04.120 We never see this woman's face.

00:17:05.600 Her story is told from the perspective of her father.

00:17:08.400 And we also never see her father's face.

00:17:10.980 So they've done this all anonymously.

00:17:13.200 But basically, here's a young woman who is suffering from mental illness.

00:17:17.200 She was suffering from anorexia.

00:17:18.680 She had just spent two months in an eating disorder unit at the hospital.

00:17:22.580 And while she was there in this eating disorder unit at St. Justine Hospital in Montreal, she started speaking to a therapist and basically talking about how the reason behind her anorexia led from unwanted changes in her body during puberty,

00:17:40.320 specifically, she said that her breasts grew very large, and she felt very uncomfortable.

00:17:44.040 She was basically trying to starve herself in order to hide her breasts because she didn't like having big breasts, more or less. 1.00

00:17:51.420 So at this point, two different doctors began offering her puberty blockers and began suggesting that she was trans.

00:17:58.760 Now, according to her father, the gender dysphoria was never formally evaluated.

00:18:02.900 There was no psychiatric assessment, no specialists.

00:18:05.240 But nonetheless, several doctors started offering her these drugs.

00:18:09.260 Anyway, she was 16 years old.

00:18:11.280 At the time, she was told that it was her decision and hers alone.

00:18:14.940 And so she decided that she did want to go on to puberty blockers and start transitioning.

00:18:21.200 Her dad says, look, she had an eating disorder.

00:18:23.680 She had very strong anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation.

00:18:27.160 It's not clear how someone could consent to something like this.

00:18:30.200 So the father was very upset, and he decided to intervene.

00:18:33.180 He spoke to the doctor directly, and eventually, Lupron, the drug, was ruled out.

00:18:38.320 So Lupron is the puberty blockers.

00:18:40.620 And the dad says that he was convinced that had he not asked questions to the doctor,

00:18:44.400 his daughter would have been put on to drugs and on to puberty blockers. 1.00

00:18:48.340 Now, eventually, the daughter revealed that she really just didn't want her breasts anymore. 0.99

00:18:52.260 She wanted to have this double mastectomy surgery, and she learned online, heard online,

00:18:57.280 that that means that she must have been trans.

00:18:58.940 So at age 16, she could legally get a mastectomy without parental consent in Quebec.

00:19:04.960 And the father was very angry about this because he said the doctors who were saying this was okay

00:19:09.740 didn't know her history, didn't know about her background, and didn't really care.

00:19:14.580 So the father was up in arms, and he decided to write a letter to the doctor and to the head of the hospital.

00:19:19.280 He denounced the haste to present medical treatment without verifying the condition.

00:19:24.960 And we later learned the dad says that he did hear back from the hospital.

00:19:27.780 He wasn't expecting to hear anything back, but the hospital did get back to him

00:19:31.840 and just said that they agreed and that they were going to change their practices.

00:19:36.980 They would be profoundly modified, and that there had been other similar complaints in the hospital,

00:19:42.060 including from another father who had a 13-year-old girl who had a very similar story

00:19:46.720 and a very similar complaint.

00:19:49.920 And so this is kind of a happy story.

00:19:52.140 The dad intervened.

00:19:53.040 The dad spoke up.

00:19:53.900 The dad said this is not acceptable.

00:19:55.640 And because of it, he saved his daughter from doing something that she would very likely live to regret.

00:20:01.660 So he said that he was very thankful that he saved his daughter.

00:20:05.840 He saved her from mutilating herself, and she didn't have the need to detransition 0.72

00:20:10.420 because she didn't do the surgeries in the first place. 0.51

00:20:14.840 Okay, now we have our fourth and final subject, a girl named Ilios.

00:20:18.280 And Ilios is the sort of one happy ending story, supposedly a successful transition.

00:20:23.440 So this individual transitioned, and as far as the documentary is concerned,

00:20:27.540 she remains to be happy as a transitioned boy.

00:20:31.580 So she began to transition, pretend to be a boy at age 15, 0.62

00:20:35.140 and this followed a suicide attempt in the same year.

00:20:37.920 So the same year, she tried to commit suicide, and then a few months later,

00:20:41.400 she got the diagnosis of gender dysphoria, began taking puberty blockers and testosterone.

00:20:47.060 It's really interesting to see how many of these stories are similar,

00:20:51.160 in that you have like a mentally unwell teenage girl who is then led down this path.

00:20:57.860 So she says that she started taking the drugs.

00:21:00.620 The drugs made her feel a little bit better, but it wasn't enough.

00:21:03.660 I'm still not well, she said.

00:21:04.880 And she knew that the solution would be the double mastectomy. 1.00

00:21:08.420 So at age 16, she went for that surgery.

00:21:11.680 And she said, when I saw the results, I cried so hard.

00:21:14.880 They were tears of joy.

00:21:15.880 I told my dad this was the best decision of my life.

00:21:19.180 So this is the so-called success story.

00:21:21.360 And just my observation is a little sad.

00:21:23.640 Just looking at this individual, she appears to be very fragile, very unwell.

00:21:29.120 This doesn't appear to be a happy, thriving, well-adjusted person.

00:21:32.180 This appears to be a deeply confused and depressed young lady who is clearly unwell. 1.00

00:21:38.620 So again, those are just my observations.

00:21:40.460 But this isn't exactly the poster child of a successful medical treatment in my books.

00:21:45.900 Okay, the fifth and final subject of the documentary was that undercover actress that I told you about earlier. 0.92

00:21:52.020 So Radio Canada has a 14-year-old actress going in, showing just how easy it is to get these drugs.

00:21:59.620 And of course, the CBC wouldn't be the CBC if they didn't try to take a knock at private healthcare.

00:22:03.720 So basically, the premise here is that if you're in the public system, you have to wait a long time, that there's wait lists somewhere between eight months, any year.

00:22:11.520 But there is an alternative, you can go to the private system, you can go to a consultation for $115 out of pocket.

00:22:19.120 And with that, you can very easily get a letter.

00:22:21.720 Everybody knows, everybody in these communities knows that there's a few doctors who will just basically rubber stamp you, write you that letter, and then you'll be good to go to get your drugs and start your transition.

00:22:34.480 So we had the 14-year-old girl, again, she just shows you the process.

00:22:39.000 She went to the doctor alone, told the doctor that she was trans.

00:22:41.800 The receptionist made her read and sign a seven-page document that just described all the side effects.

00:22:47.400 She kind of just breezed through it, signed it, goes into the doctor's office, tells them a made-up story.

00:22:53.300 And basically, there's not really a lot to the meeting.

00:22:58.360 Within five minutes, they're talking about surgery.

00:23:01.140 The entire consultation lasted less than 17 minutes.

00:23:03.820 They did not talk about the side effects at all of taking testosterone.

00:23:07.780 They only did mention, the doctor did mention, that she would not be able to have children in the future.

00:23:12.600 And there's a 14-year-old girl.

00:23:13.860 I don't know any 14-year-old girl who can think that far ahead to decide whether or not they want children at that age.

00:23:20.260 But at the time, she just, you know, shrugged it off, said, yeah, that's fine.

00:23:22.940 And just like that, she was given the green light to start a chemical treatment towards self-serialization. 0.83

00:23:29.900 So it is pretty unbelievable stuff.

00:23:31.940 And again, great research and great journalism from Radio Canada.

00:23:36.320 Okay.

00:23:36.660 So those are the stories.

00:23:38.360 The stories are very compelling.

00:23:39.500 As you can see, there's sort of a trend within all of them.

00:23:42.340 These are young women who are very unwell, who are suffering from other mental illnesses.

00:23:45.900 And they kind of get, like, sucked into this path where they are impacted by videos that they've seen online, by doctors telling them that this is sort of like a silver bullet to solve all their problems.

00:23:57.720 And with the subjects that Radio Canada chose, obviously it wasn't the right decision for them, as three out of the four are not living as trans today.

00:24:06.920 Okay. Okay. Let's quickly go through the research here.

00:24:10.080 The main person who is quoted throughout the documentary is actually a pro-transitioning professor and researcher named Ali Poulin Saint-Siffran.

00:24:18.620 And she is featured through the documentary presenting the pro-trans side of the argument.

00:24:23.940 So anytime that they feature a doctor or researcher with an opposing position, they always go back to Saint-Siffran, who gets an opportunity to refute whatever she just said, whatever that other doctor just said.

00:24:35.420 So she explains why Quebec does what it does.

00:24:37.860 And it's basically based on two theories that are stacked on top of each other.

00:24:41.420 The first is called the Dutch Protocol, which basically says that gender must be affirmed.

00:24:46.720 They basically took a lot of interviews from older trans people who have transitioned.

00:24:52.000 And those people said, look, my childhood was incredibly difficult and my life would have been a lot easier if I could have just transitioned as a child,

00:24:59.460 because then I would have never gone through puberty in the other direction that I didn't want to go through puberty.

00:25:03.860 And so that was sort of the basis behind the idea that they were going to start treating children who mentioned that they might suffer from the same disorder.

00:25:13.120 And so the protocol basically includes three steps.

00:25:15.480 So the first one is puberty blockers.

00:25:17.040 So they stop puberty.

00:25:18.180 The second one is that they add hormone drugs on top of that. 0.97

00:25:21.220 So if you're a girl transitioning to be a boy, you start taking testosterone.

00:25:24.860 And then the third is a surgery, the double mastectomy to remove the breasts. 0.93

00:25:29.200 The main drug that they use for puberty blockers is called Lelupron.

00:25:33.180 And the documentary tells us that the prescriptions for Lelupron for adolescent girls has shot up 600% since 2010.

00:25:41.560 And a study showed that nine out of 10 adolescents who take puberty blockers go on to take the next step, which is the testosterone and the medical transition.

00:25:51.620 So stacked on top of the Dutch protocol is the idea that only the person, only an individual can decide their own gender.

00:25:59.780 So only that person knows.

00:26:01.960 That's why doctors don't care. 1.00

00:26:04.160 They don't want to talk to parents.

00:26:05.160 They don't want to hear from parents.

00:26:06.260 They don't want to hear from other doctors who might have concerns about transitioning.

00:26:09.740 We hear from this Quebec researcher that I mentioned, Sansefran, who basically just says that interviews with parents are not valid because they are not in the child's head.

00:26:20.860 The child and only the child can decide what to do.

00:26:24.380 And so that is what we're dealing with here.

00:26:26.800 The journalists then go out and try to find the other perspective.

00:26:29.680 So they show you that that is what the perspective is for the pro-trans people, and that's basically the foundation of what is done in Quebec is based on those theories.

00:26:38.760 But then they also say, look, there is no medical consensus.

00:26:41.940 There is heavy debate around this topic.

00:26:44.080 And so the team goes out to try to understand what the other side of the story is.

00:26:48.680 They go to a conference in New York City that is specifically focused on transgender adolescents.

00:26:54.080 And while they're there, they interview a couple of doctors that sort of refute what's going on in Quebec.

00:26:58.460 They say that it is impossible to give a letter of recommendation after a single session of therapy.

00:27:03.820 And they say that rules state that the child must be evaluated physically, psychologically, and socially.

00:27:11.280 We then meet another doctor, an American doctor named Lisa Littman, who says that she started noticing that there was a trend where she would see like one trans girl in a school.

00:27:22.020 And then all of a sudden she would see a second, a third, a fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh.

00:27:25.260 And she noticed this new concept, basically rapid onset gender dysphoria, where girls and young women start to talk about their discomfort.

00:27:34.700 And all of a sudden it's not just one girl coming forward.

00:27:36.800 It's like an entire class or entire group of friends.

00:27:39.100 Like one person does it and they all want to do it.

00:27:41.840 And she's sort of starting to see signs of a social contagion.

00:27:45.620 It's interesting, anyone who has read the book Irreversible Damage by Abigail Schreier, who's an investigative journalist with the Wall Street Journal, she put out this great book in 2020, talking about the same concept.

00:27:57.360 The idea that this is part of a social contagion.

00:28:00.600 That basically the phenomenon of transgenderism, it used to be called transsexuals, they were predominantly men transitioning to be women.

00:28:08.360 But then starting around the 2010s, we started to see a lot of girls wanting to transition to be boys, something that really, there was no history of that.

00:28:18.580 We hadn't really seen that phenomenon before.

00:28:21.460 So that is part of the concern that was outlined in the documentary, saying that these are perhaps not genuine feelings, but rather just confused young girls who are suffering from other illnesses, sometimes borderline personality disorder, being confused for perhaps having gender dysphoria, being influenced by their peers, being influenced by activist doctors, and then leading to these devastating decisions and terrible regret that we saw in the young women in the documentary.

00:28:49.420 And then the second major critique of what is going on in Canada and what is going on in Quebec is that, contrary to the Dutch protocol, that transitioning doesn't actually improve mental health.

00:29:02.540 So basically they went to Scandinavia and Finland.

00:29:05.780 They had one doctor who said that he quickly noticed that several of the new patients were not doing very well afterwards.

00:29:11.300 They still had a lot of psychiatric problems, especially depression, anxiety, and autism.

00:29:16.340 And in 2019, they decided to evaluate the impact of hormones and other sex change drugs on mental health and basically found that people's mental health doesn't necessarily improve.

00:29:28.700 improve. So if you're doing well and you're happy and you're well-adjusted and you transition, you'll probably continue to be happy and well-adjusted after the transition.

00:29:37.700 But children who are suffering with mental health issues, that doesn't necessarily improve after transition.

00:29:45.060 They continue to struggle. And sometimes it's not worth basically that this is not a miracle cure for all kinds of problems, which to me is pretty common sense.

00:29:53.580 They then go to Sweden and they talk to Dr. Landon, who, again, I featured him in the previous episode that I did when I was talking about Rachel Gilmore,

00:30:02.580 because she criticized Dr. Landon saying he was a quack. Well, actually, he's the head of a very prestigious hospital and university in Sweden.

00:30:10.580 So he analyzed 195 studies to evaluate the effect on hormones on kids, basically concluded that there is no conclusive data,

00:30:19.580 which provides that there is benefits to reduce symptoms like anxiety, depression, and suicide ideation.

00:30:25.580 That means overall, he said that we cannot recommend this treatment.

00:30:29.580 So hence, this is why in both Finland and Sweden, doctors have completely given up on this idea of puberty blockers with some exceptions,

00:30:38.580 but more or less that the law is that hormones are banned for anyone under 16 years old and that double mastectomies are banned for minors.

00:30:47.580 And so the documentary basically concludes by saying that in Quebec, maybe we need to study more about what other countries are doing and keep updated with the latest science and basically just urge for more caution.

00:31:01.580 And so that's it. That's the entire documentary. Nothing, nothing homophobic, nothing crazy, nothing anti-trans, nothing ideological,

00:31:10.580 unlike the criticism that we saw from the radical trans activists, including people like Rachel Gilmore and lots of trans activists online.

00:31:19.580 We also saw a article over at Extra, which is the gay LGBTQ plus magazine in Canada, just really, really criticizing this documentary,

00:31:28.580 making it seem like the people who made it were absolute monsters.

00:31:32.580 Contrary to all that, the documentary is very reasonable, very balanced, very even.

00:31:37.580 And just again, to show how far off base the left wing radical trans activists and journalists who are critiquing the documentary are,

00:31:46.580 the journalists behind this documentary went on La Toute de Monde del Parle.

00:31:50.580 La Toute de Monde del Parle is the most popular talk show in Quebec, probably the most popular and watched talk show in all of Canada,

00:31:57.580 just because so many people in Quebec watch it and consume it and it really impacts the culture in Quebec.

00:32:03.580 So these journalists were on there and they sort of refute every single thing that these trans activists are saying about them.

00:32:10.580 So they were asked, you know, what compelled you to make this documentary?

00:32:14.580 And, you know, they say basically that they just received an onslaught of concerned parents writing to them and communicating to them and telling them the same kind of story

00:32:23.580 and how their daughters were basically being pushed towards medical transitions and they felt uncomfortable about it.

00:32:29.580 It was interesting. They talked about how most of the people who wrote to them, they were sort of expecting them to be conservatives and people who were like traditionally opposed to, you know, all kinds of different changes when it comes to gender and sex.

00:32:42.580 But it was the opposite. They're usually mostly like liberal parents who are very open minded and very open to homosexuality and all that kind of stuff.

00:32:50.580 And they were the ones who were experiencing this. They were also asked about the Scandinavian model.

00:32:56.580 And they basically go through and talk about how these procedures are now banned in Finland and Sweden and how hormones are not used at all over there.

00:33:05.580 And then finally, we heard them say that a lot of the parents, the reason that they went to Radio Canada and not like a conservative or a right wing media outlet is because they didn't want to be seen as attacking trans ideology.

00:33:20.580 They didn't want their stories to be hijacked. They just wanted to tell the story so that people in Quebec could understand what was happening and how it was happening so fast.

00:33:29.580 So, again, I think that the appearance over on the Tutamon really just dismantles any of the arguments that you see from radical trans activists.

00:33:39.580 A final news story that I wanted to include here is that earlier this week on Tuesday, we learned that the UK will follow Finland and Sweden in banning puberty blockers for minors.

00:33:52.580 So here is a little news clip explaining what that looks like.

00:33:56.580 A little bit of breaking news, which may be of interest to some of you. It's about puberty blockers.

00:34:01.580 Now, these are drugs that are used to delay the changes of puberty in transgender youngsters.

00:34:08.580 In terms of how they are prescribed by the NHS, there has been a lot of controversy over the last few years about this.

00:34:15.580 At the moment, they are only prescribed to children attending gender identity services as part of clinical research.

00:34:21.580 And they are not routinely offered to children at gender identity clinics, but they are still offered.

00:34:28.580 Well, the government, NHS England, has just confirmed that children will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers at gender identity clinics.

00:34:36.580 This is coming from NHS England, which just broke in the last few moments.

00:34:41.580 So some good news coming out of England. And I think that we can all hope that that's the direction that we're heading and hopefully Canada will be the next one.

00:34:50.580 Like I said, I think this documentary will have a huge impact in Quebec.

00:34:53.580 The way it was presented was very fair and very moderate.

00:34:56.580 And I think reasonable people will see it and conclude that it is the wrong decision to allow children to make these kind of changes to their body.

00:35:05.580 And despite, you know, the journalists taking some shots at conservatives saying that they didn't want the story to be painted as a conservative issue.

00:35:12.580 The reality is that the conservatives are correct on this issue.

00:35:16.580 A person cannot change their sex. 1.00

00:35:18.580 They cannot mutilate their body and all of a sudden become the other sex mutilating a child's body in the name of progress is wrong. 1.00

00:35:26.580 And it is evil and history will not look kindly on those pushing this ideological butchery.

00:35:32.580 Every Canadian should watch this documentary.

00:35:34.580 Every Canadian should reach out to their local representative, their member of parliament and demand action.

00:35:40.580 They should demand that these barbaric practices be banned, especially for minors, just as they've been banned in the UK, Sweden and Finland.

00:35:48.580 It's Fake News Friday.

00:35:49.580 Thank you so much for tuning in.

00:35:50.580 I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

The Candice Malcolm Show - March 15, 2024

Wow： the CBC finally gets it RIGHT in exposing the dangers of transitioning minors

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