In this episode, Wyatt Claypool talks about the parental rights legislation proposed by Alberta s premier, Daniel Smith, and why the left is freaking out about it. He also talks about proposed legislation that would ban certain medical procedures and surgeries from being given to minors under a certain age.
00:00:00.000As someone who is maybe more skeptical about her, I'm actually very satisfied with the proposed legislation that Premier Daniel Smith came out with in order to protect parental rights and ban certain medical procedures and surgeries from being given to minors underneath a certain age.
00:00:16.080It's a very sensible policy, it's a great victory for the parental rights movement, and obviously the left is freaking out about it.
00:00:23.240And I want to get to it in just a second and explain why the left's sort of rhetoric on this issue was the downfall.
00:00:30.000For them, it's that they acted in such a way that made it so that parental rights actually became more popular and they can't understand why, and I'm here to explain it to them in their own words.
00:00:40.740Anyways, but before I get to that, I just want to mention that I, Wyatt Claypool, am running for the Calgary-Signal Hill Conservative Party nomination.
00:00:48.480So if you live on the west side of Calgary, check which riding you live in, and if you live in Calgary-Signal Hill, buy a Conservative Party membership.
00:00:55.740And when the vote comes up for the nominee, vote for me number one on your ballot.
00:01:00.300The nomination probably won't happen until after April when new riding boundaries come into effect.
00:01:04.420This is what the new riding boundaries will look like.
00:01:06.560And I think that it's good for you to take out a membership in this area and vote for me,
00:01:10.080because I want to propose a parental bill of rights on the federal level.
00:01:14.320It's great that Alberta, Saskatchewan, and New Brunswick are passing parental rights legislation,
00:01:19.280but I think we can take it a step further and have a federal sensible standard that makes it so that provinces can't do an end run around parental authority in the family.
00:01:29.680I think that it's a very toxic thing that the left is proposing that somehow the state should have more say over how your child grows up than you do as a parent.
00:01:38.420Anyways, getting to the left's reaction, I think the way that they have reacted to this proposed legislation has really been sort of exactly in line with the way they've acted up to this point.
00:01:51.020They've been nasty, they've been rude, they've just called you names, and they've been taking everything out of context,
00:01:58.140coming up with wild hypothetical scenarios of parental rights were expected, that people will die, that you're transphobic, that you're homophobic, just nasty garbage.
00:02:06.960And I think they've gotten to the point in Canadian culture that Canadians do not put up with this anymore.
00:02:13.320We do not want to hear that we're racist, we're homophobic, we're transphobic, we're bigoted, if we back sensible legislation.
00:02:22.100We don't care what hypothetical scenarios you cook up, parental rights are important,
00:02:27.020and minors should not be taking hormone therapy before a certain age when they don't even know the effects it will have on their bodies.
00:02:34.520Anyways, here are some of the reactions, it's absolutely nutty the sort of things that have been coming out.
00:02:41.060So this guy, Chris Berthelot, or whatever, the premier just proposed a literal segregation while mischaracterizing the biology of trans women.
00:02:49.080This is blatant attempt to erase trans kids and trans people from proper society, treating them as exotic and strange.
00:02:55.300Nobody is doing that. We are saying that a male before the age of 15 or before the age of 16 should not be taking estrogen before they've gotten through puberty fully.
00:03:06.380They shouldn't be taking strong doses of estrogen.
00:03:09.220It's actually toxic for their bodies and they are not at the age to make that decision for themselves.
00:03:13.920And you shouldn't be, before the age of 17, able to go for elective bottom or top surgery.
00:03:22.860But the thing is that these activists, these activists online, do not know how the average Canadian thinks.
00:03:28.940So they think this fear-mongering about segregation, I don't even know what they mean by that.
00:03:33.560But because of segregation, like we're somehow passing segregation language, and because of segregation, everyone should be up in arms about this.
00:03:41.140Here's a post where someone more sensible responded to an activist.
00:03:44.640He said, did you even watch the video?
00:03:48.200You just want to attack the policy because you don't like Smith.
00:03:51.380And he's responding to this guy, Marcy Ian, who said, incredibly disappointed to see this.
00:03:58.320Daniel Smith, these policies are dangerous and intentionally restrictive.
00:04:02.260They deliberately endanger and isolate trans kids.
00:04:04.580None of these policies put trans kids at any risk.
00:04:08.080I don't even believe in the category of trans kids.
00:04:11.640I think it's actually kind of a sick thing to try and convince a child that if they have any confusion about their gender and they're 12, 13 years old, that they might be the opposite sex.
00:04:21.500I think that's an actual dangerous thing to do.
00:04:23.860And this legislation prevents things like gender theory from being taught in the classroom that is actually dangerous to the mental health of children who are in a very emotional and vulnerable stage of their lives, very impressionable and cannot filter out political rhetoric from sort of, I guess, scientific type rhetoric that they hear in class.
00:04:44.480So if in a biology class, if a teacher taught this, you're going to have a lot of kids who just assume that it's fully true and it's not just sort of a theory about how gender works in the real world.
00:04:59.620From now on, members of Alberta's LGBTQ2S community are required to wear pink triangles sewn onto their shirts.
00:05:06.840We are only doing this because we really love you, insists Premier Danny.
00:05:10.460Comparing Daniel Smith to the Nazis who made homosexuals put pink triangles on their sleeves the way that they would make Jews wear, like, you know, yellow stars.
00:05:24.340The fact that they have to go to such hyperbole to make this basic of basic parental legislation seem dangerous is just an indictment of their own worldview.
00:05:34.660That they only think in 11 out of 10 opinions, it's either you're trying to kill children, you're hateful, you're bigoted, or you're trying to segregate people.
00:05:49.740And this is why Albertans actually support this legislation.
00:05:52.300This is why in the next federal election or the next provincial election or in a by-election, there's not going to be a large crowd of people showing up to oppose this at the ballot box because people actually like having some sort of autonomy within their own family to make their own decisions.
00:06:09.160Obviously, and Daniel Smith even said this in the video, if there was any abuse going on because a child was identifying as transgender within the family, child protective services should be called over the police, obviously.
00:06:20.140And the thing is that these activists online are pretending like that option is now no longer available because the thing is that they have to pretend it's no longer available to pretend that this legislation is going to result in death or something like that.
00:06:53.560No, your hypocrisy is sickening because you wanted parents cut out of their children's lives at school, that parents don't get to know if their child wants to identify with different pronouns.
00:07:02.940Parents don't get to know if their child wants to pursue certain medical interventions.
00:07:06.880You're the person who's actually a little bit sick.
00:07:09.160I don't understand why all these activists think that people are just going to go along with them in the idea that the progressive state should have more authority over your children than you should have.
00:07:19.560These people who likely don't even have children themselves think that they know what's better for your children than you do.
00:07:26.300They're the people who are out of touch.
00:07:54.920That's actually very dangerous to give to a child when they're at a stage in their lives where they're very unlikely to be identifying as transgender once they become an adult.
00:08:02.400Every study shows a child in their, you know, like before preteens or when they're in their teens, if they identify as trans, if you do nothing and they get to the adulthood, most of them identify as their normal sex again.
00:08:15.520It's actually the progressives who want to do medical intervention that would prevent the child from actually making a well-informed decision.
00:08:24.320And they're saying, we're losing these battles and we're being outgunned.
00:08:27.940You're not losing these battles because you're being outgunned.
00:08:30.280The implication being that there's like grassroots organizations in the conservative movement that's causing these pieces of legislation to get hammered through in spite of public opinion.
00:08:40.300It is because of public opinion that these pieces of legislation are being passed in different provinces.
00:08:46.300Doug Ford is usually a little bit more of a flake on social issues.
00:08:49.100The fact that the Ontario government is also going to pass like parental rights legislation shows it's deeply popular, especially in, you know, immigrant communities who the left pretends that they are the main arbiters of like saying the opinions of, or like they're the ones who decide what ethnic minority communities think.
00:09:07.520These people are very, very family focused.
00:09:09.880They do not like the idea that the state should take precedent over family decisions, over whatever their cultural background is.
00:09:34.380This is the hypothetical that a trans child or teen might kill themselves.
00:09:38.600If you do not give them hormone therapies, you do not let them pursue certain surgeries later in their teen years, and you don't let them, you basically let their parents know they want to identify with different pronouns in the classroom.
00:09:49.960No, they are not going to kill themselves because of this.
00:09:52.360And maybe you're actually putting children in a more mentally vulnerable state when you're teaching them like radical gender theory in the classroom at a time when they are emotionally vulnerable.
00:10:03.900When you fill a kid's head with ideas that are just not true, it might put them in a state of being a little bit more on edge, anxious.