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David A said:
One thing that has been consistent throughout, is our current Premier's tenuous connection to reality. How bout' them contrails!
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So she made some silly comments about chontrails. At least she doesn't agree with school counselors having private conversations with children about their gender that are kept secret from the children's parents and she doesn't agree with giving children puberty blockers. I mean, that is truly crazy and something the NDP and Rachel Notley support. The NDP support trans policies that the majority of parents are firmly against, as well as economy crushing "climate change" policies that makes everything more expensive (while India and China continue to pump coal emissions at record levels) - and makes Alberta and Canada less productive. Alberta is a world leader in efficient and ethical fossil fuels extraction and we should be proud of our industries. Also, the NDP's embrace of public unions and creating too much publicly funded bureaucracy that live off of the backs of tax payers is a recipe for an unproductive society with lowering GDP per capita (just see how this worked for the Federal Libs) - as long as the NDP continue to promote these types of policies they will never get elected in Alberta. I notice many people on here blaming the "uneducated" rural "redneck" types for the UCP's success but there are many people in Calgary and Edmonton that support the UCP and think Premier Smith is doing a great job. I'm highly educated, born and raised in the city and I have always supported the Conservatives and now UCP - and I know many many people like me who feel the same way. Also, most rural folks are hard working intelligent caring people - something that I think some people on this forum need to be reminded of. Merry Christmas everyone!!
 
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If my parenting skills are such that my child can't talk to me, then the state must mandate that my child can't talk to anyone. This is the crux of the argument. And it's one that actually impacts a tiny minority, yet dominates the discourse.

An easy distraction, I guess. What's the well-being of a few kids when you can just be angry at things instead?
 
If your child said they were trans, would you use their desired name and pronouns without gaslighting them? If you hesitate to say "yes", even for a moment, now you understand why laws are needed to protect trans kids.
 
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If your child said they were trans, would you use their desired name and pronouns without gaslighting them? If you hesitate to say "yes", even for a moment, now you understand why laws are needed to protect trans kids.
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What percentage of people truly suffer from a genuine gender issue, resulting in them having a legitimate need to go through a transition? Is it 1/100,000 or something? If more than that are feeling this way, is it responsible to find out which individuals truly are suffering from it, and maybe which ones are just having other mental health issues and then getting them other types of help? At what point would you look to other types of help, if 1/10,000 kids were feeling this way? What about if 1/100 or 1/10 started indicating they are trans? It’s a legitimate problem that no doubt affects some small portion of the public, and those people should be helped. But we should also not be afraid to tell kids that it’s normal to feel uncomfortable in one’s skin throughout puberty, and it’s normal to mature and have different views of the world, etc. I’m not an expert but most people I talk to feel somewhat similar, all “educated”.
 
trevorhayden said:
If your child said they were trans, would you use their desired name and pronouns without gaslighting them? If you hesitate to say "yes", even for a moment, now you understand why laws are needed to protect trans kids.
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Also, if a child said they were trans, I’d ask them where they even learned what that is? I’d get them as far away from social media like tik tok as possible, and much more involved with extra curricular activities. If I didn’t learn what trans was until adulthood, why would a child be even coming into contact with any notion of this word or its meaning? I’d do everything I could to let my kid be a kid, and not worry about topics that are far beyond their maturity to comprehend.
 
Whatup said:
So she made some silly comments about chontrails. At least she doesn't agree with school counselors having private conversations with children about their gender that are kept secret from the children's parents and she doesn't agree with giving children puberty blockers. I mean, that is truly crazy and something the NDP and Rachel Notley support. The NDP support trans policies that the majority of parents are firmly against, as well as economy crushing "climate change" policies that makes everything more expensive (while India and China continue to pump coal emissions at record levels) - and makes Alberta and Canada less productive. Alberta is a world leader in efficient and ethical fossil fuels extraction and we should be proud of our industries. Also, the NDP's embrace of public unions and creating too much publicly funded bureaucracy that live off of the backs of tax payers is a recipe for an unproductive society with lowering GDP per capita (just see how this worked for the Federal Libs) - as long as the NDP continue to promote these types of policies they will never get elected in Alberta. I notice many people on here blaming the "uneducated" rural "redneck" types for the UCP's success but there are many people in Calgary and Edmonton that support the UCP and think Premier Smith is doing a great job. I'm highly educated, born and raised in the city and I have always supported the Conservatives and now UCP - and I know many many people like me who feel the same way. Also, most rural folks are hard working intelligent caring people - something that I think some people on this forum need to be reminded of. Merry Christmas everyone!!
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Sometimes I really wish this site had an eye roll emoji, for posts that are so ridiculous they aren't worth responding to.
 
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You have to love yourself for the way you are, no matter what your gender, weight, colour, height, disability is. Period. I have met trans people and its all bullshit.
 
I also am “not an expert” but that doesn’t stop me from having an opinion that I believe is based more on fact than willful ignorance.

I am a cisgender heterosexual male but not because I chose to be. There was never a moment when I decided that’s what I would be instead of being homosexual or bisexual or queer or trans.

I believe it is the same for those who are born homosexual or bisexual or queer or trans. Their sexual orientation is not a choice even when for social or family or religious reasons they may decide to hide that orientation.

Being born trans in a modern society has more in common with someone born with a cleft palate or a club foot or certain forms of deafness or blindness or heart defects etc. In many of these cases options are now available that simply were not for previous generations and in all cases the condition is not one of choice but choosing one of the options available is.

Who would insist that a child with a cleft palate should be denied corrective surgery because they’re too young to make that choice or who is cursed with parents who believe that these anomalies are god’s will or whose religion permits “care but not surgery”?

The issue is about the rights of the individuals, not the rights of their parents and it is government’s responsibility to support the rights of those individuals. No-one goes through gender altering surgery or performs gender altering surgery on a whim.
 
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