Canadian Lawmaker Moves to Make Anti-Transgender Speech Illegal

While many in the United States are wrestling with the appropriate response to the growth of the transgender population, Canada seems to have a different approach on the matter. Rather than change the minds of its population, the northern country is just making it illegal to disagree with the alternative lifestyle.

Citing the need to make transgender people “feel safe and secure in who they are,” Canada’s Minister of Justice Jody Wilson-Raybould introduced legislation Tuesday that would prohibit discrimination on the basis of “gender identity” or “gender expression” and make anti-transgender “hate propaganda” punishable by up to two years in prison.

The proposed legislation — which was unveiled on the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia — would amend the Canadian Criminal Code to expand existing “hate speech” prohibitions to include any public speech or communication that “promotes hatred” on the basis of “gender identity” or “gender expression.”

An identical ban on anti-gay “hate propaganda” has been in place for several years and has caused problems for Christians who oppose gay marriage. In 2013, the Canadian Supreme Court upheld the conviction of a Christian street preacher for distributing fliers denouncing homosexual behavior.

Apparently, the best way to change someone’s mind is to make their agreement mandatory — or maybe it’s a sign of a bad idea when you have to force people to agree. Either way, according to Canada, rights to free speech are less important than the rights of men and women who don’t acknowledge their biological gender. It’s P.C. policing at its finest, and its only a matter of time before it makes its way south of their border.

Source: Daily Caller