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Top 10 Canadian Gender Self-ID Fails 2020
A roundup of notably outrageous events resulting from Canada's gender self-identification laws and policies. Thread:

A roundup of notably outrageous events resulting from Canada's gender self-identification laws and policies. Thread:

#10 @RugbyCanada rejects @WorldRugby's sane guidance on keeping the sport sex-segregated
https://rugby.ca/en/news/2020/09/rugby-canada-provides-update-on-feedback-to-proposed-transgender-guidelines https://www.cbc.ca/sports/rugby/world-rugby-transgender-women-elite-teams-1.5758178

#9 Canadian healthcare orgs, advertisers and mainstream media outlets adopt dehumanizing language, insulting women with terms like "cervix-haver", "vagina owner" and "pregnant person" https://globalnews.ca/news/6661429/pregnant-coronavirus-risks/

#8 Yaniv attempts another lawsuit against aestheticians (and later withdraws it)... then is back in the news again – 3 new charges laid on Yaniv
https://nationalpost.com/news/trans-activist-jessica-yaniv-files-second-lawsuit-against-3-beauticians-after-losing-human-rights-suit-to-them-in-2019 https://www.rebelnews.com/breaking_police_lay_3_new_charges_on_yaniv

#7 BC court gags and threatens father for trying to stop his daughter from receiving testosterone injections https://thepostmillennial.com/outspoken-bc-father-in-transgender-child-case-faces-jail-time-for-violating-gag-order

#6 Margaret Atwood doubles down in rejecting material biological reality and lesbian E. Page comes out as "trans/non-binary"
https://www.insidehook.com/daily_brief/books/margaret-atwood-supports-trans-community https://people.com/movies/elliot-page-fans-love-and-support-greatest-gift/

#5 Justice Committee rejects a motion to allow more time to read the 246 briefs submitted to date re: #BillC6 before proceeding with a clause-by-clause study. They'd only read 50 of them
https://www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/en/43-2/JUST/meeting-16/evidence

#4 During public meetings on Bill C-6 MP Randall Garrison denies the existence of detransitioners calling them a "false narrative" https://twitter.com/DetransCanada/status/1336397610014437378?s=20

#3 @jk_rowling baselessly slurred as transphobic by Canadian legacy media https://globalnews.ca/news/7053461/j-k-rowling-statement-transgender-comments-sexual-assault-survivor/

#2 Vancouver City Council unanimously votes to strip grant funding from @VanRapeRelief https://www.feministcurrent.com/2020/03/05/after-losing-city-grant-vancouver-rape-relief-say-they-have-no-plans-to-scale-back-services-public-education/

#1 Canadian media blackout on the Keira Bell victory https://quillette.com/2020/12/18/like-it-or-not-keira-bell-has-opened-up-a-real-conversation-about-gender-dysphoria/

Special Mention: Canadian incarcerated women are *still* being terrorized and sexually assaulted by rapists in women's prisons https://torontosun.com/news/national/hunter-trans-jailbird-accused-of-sexually-assaulting-female-con