Commentary
Usually, public policy concerns what some leader or bureaucrat should do. But when the law and the government are misguided, decision-making falls to citizens. They must decide whether to stand up or cower, to speak up or remain silent.
Imagine yourself in the following scenario. You’re a father whose recent divorce has been hard on your young daughter. Her school calls you throughout grade six due to her misbehaviour. In grade seven, she writes love notes to her first male teacher. When the school forces her to stop, she declares herself a lesbian and isolates herself in her room with the lights off and the shades down.
After the school year ends, you see her school yearbook with a male name under her picture. It turns out the school guidance counsellor helped her choose it, since she has concluded she is actually a male trapped in a female body.
And you, her dad, weren’t told any of this.
While the guidance counsellor affirms your daughter as a transgender in grade eight, she still gets a crush on her male physical education teacher. The teacher rebuffs the young crush and she’s taken out of his class. She attempts suicide and says this rejection is the reason.
