Several readers have forwarded a story about a Canadian father jailed and fined for misgendering his daughter in public. But he wasn’t jailed for that, not exactly. He was fined and imprisoned for ignoring a gag order that prohibited him from publicly objecting to the forced hormone therapy to which he did not consent.
Hoogland — who was featured anonymously in the Daily Wire documentary “What is a Woman?” — took legal action after a Canadian children’s hospital in 2018 told him that his daughter, who was then just 13 years old, was going to be injected with testosterone, despite Hoogland refusing to give his consent. In British Columbia, the Infants Act permits minors to consent to their own trans treatments if doctors think it’s in their best interests; parents’ consent is irrelevant.
America is already on the track. Many states, even my own (New Hampshire), have districts re-gendering kids at school without parental knowledge or consent. States like California are trying to toss kids into the genderizer without consent but with full knowledge, and if parents object, it starts looking like Canada.
The US DoJ and local jurisdictions have not been shy about intimidating parents who object to adult material in grade schools or teaching their children they are systemic racists. Arrests at school boards over various issues have increased as local tyrants work to silence parents and taxpayers alike.
Robert Hoogland was fined and jailed for six months, not for being disruptive or (allegedly) obstructing a meeting. Not even for objecting to the hospital injecting his 13-year-old daughter with hormone treatments (over which he’d filed a lawsuit). It was for refusing to be gagged and publicly speaking about his objections.
The court said that the girl could move forward with the testosterone and said Hoogland was barred from publicly “misgendering” his daughter, meaning he couldn’t refer to his own daughter as his daughter. Moreover, Canadian media was banned from publishing Hoogland’s name in any coverage via a publication ban. Hoogland told The Daily Wire such bans allow people to hide what they’re doing to children, despite these same people claiming trans treatments are helpful, good, and even lifesaving.
Insidious.
Canada is using its monopoly on ” health care” to sanction chemical experimentation on children that have permanent “side effects” (many of them dangerous to the life and well-being of the child). A deliberate government act paid for and defended with taxpayers’ dollars on which neither the press nor the people may publicly comment, protest, or seek redress.
Hoogland was punished for daring to question the government-run medical-industrial complex, which has to hit home here in America, where the FBI worked inside social media companies to suppress or censor Americans who questioned COVID response policy.
Many businesses and states fired employees because they’d lose government funding if detractors were freely allowed to dissent. From jabbing children to elderly parents or spouses, “Health Care” may have become one of this decade’s most significant threats to liberty.
Hoogland is happy to be out. To have taken the risk and, after only serving two months, been released. That’s not a win, but he should feel privileged to have not been diagnosed as mentally incompetent and recommended for medically assisted suicide.
