Greg Chubak

Dear @LDoerkson, Your government needs to seriously consider disbanding the BC Human Rights Tribunal. It has made many egregious errors in recent year, but this one takes it beyond the pale. The Tribunal is now playing with people’s lives. The BC Human Rights Tribunal just ordered LifeLabs to treat the sex marker on a government ID card as optional and to prioritize self-identified gender over the data that lab reference ranges actually use. That decision is not just an insult to common sense. It creates a foreseeable risk that lab results will be misinterpreted and patients will be harmed. While LifeLabs still has time to seek judicial review, your government should not sit back and wait. It should get involved and reverse this dangerous life-threatening decision. Lab reference ranges for hemoglobin, creatinine and eGFR, high-sensitivity troponin, certain liver enzymes, PSA and others differ by biological sex because of physiology that cross-sex hormones only partially change. When a laboratory is forced to suppress or override accurate sex data, the risk is false-normal or false-abnormal results. The Tribunal itself acknowledged that sex information “may be medically relevant,” but then dismissed the point. They said that because LifeLabs already processes some “X” marker patients. This is not a safety analysis. It is an ideological one. The BCHRT is engaging in ideological fantasy at the expense of medical certainty. This demonstrates a pattern for them. The BCHRT repeatedly compels people to lie about sex in the name of inclusion. If a patient is injured because a critical result was interpreted against the wrong range, the laboratory, the province’s laboratory system, and ultimately the public health system face the consequences. A judicial review is probably the cleanest, fastest way to force the Tribunal to confront that evidence under the proper legal test. The BC Conservative Party needs to make this a political issue for the public to understand. It should urge LifeLabs to file for judicial review within 60-days. It is their duty. We are dealing with a patient safety and regulatory issue, not culture war. The Tribunal’s finding that there was ‘no evidence’ of medical necessity is open to challenge and must be challenged. This is not a fringe complaint. LifeLabs is a large corporation that can absorb a fine. What it should not absorb is a precedent that requires medical laboratories to suppress biologically accurate data. The 60-day clock is running. The case for judicial review is straightforward: patient safety is a bona fide justification. We need to say that clearly, publicly, and soon. And the BC Human Rights Tribunal should be given notice that it is about to be disbanded.

You've avoided nearly all of my questions, Norah, because you're literally incapable of answering them. Your mind is firmly closed to any evidence or facts that undermine your preferred narrative. You consider it immoral for anyone to even question you, even though you voluntarily and confidently entered this discussion. You're like a flat-earther. Nothing I or anyone else says to you will permeate your stubborn quasi-religious beliefs, because to change your mind would take away a core part of your self image, which is as somebody who is kinder and better and more righteous than the nasty people still advocating for the safety of women and girls. You repeat your thought-terminating clichés and unevidenced assertions, which I assume sound clever inside your echo chamber, but which, outside it, make you appear not only dim, but a total moral vacuum. Increased risk to females? Who cares. Women threatened by violence? Of course those poor trans-identified men lash out when they meet resistance! What is a gender identity? You can't really say, but like the flat-earther, you're sure it exists, because your tribe is held together by belief in it, and pride themselves on their blind faith in it. I keep waiting for a single gender ideologue or trans activist to truly engage with the facts, but all of you sheer away from them like horses from fireworks. It truly is like talking to cult members who're incapable of engaging in rational debate and just keep chanting the mantras, consigning all serious questions to the 'evil' bin. I've been told I'm on the wrong side of history thousands of times. By debating people like you, I've come to realise that your ilk's idea of the 'right side of history' means stripping women and girls' of their rights, excusing male violence against women, siding with those issuing death and rape threats and attempting to suppress critical thought and freedom of speech. Maybe, like the flat-earthers, you genuinely think history will vindicate you. I believe people will look back on this period and analyse your arguments, not because they admire them, but because they're trying to fathom how so many supposedly intelligent people fell, hook, line and sinker for a bunch of vacuous, post-modern, pseudo-intellectual cobblers, while being completely indifferent to the real world harm they were enabling.

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This BCTF statement does not speak for many of the teachers it claims to represent. No one’s rights are being taken away. Lesbian, gay, and bisexual people exist across the political spectrum. Same-sex attracted teachers and parents hold a wide range of views, and many reject the promotion of gender-identity ideology in schools. We hear from lesbian, gay, and bisexual teachers in British Columbia who oppose gender-identity ideology and the overtly sexual materials made available to young children. They resent participating in language demands that may affirm children in delusions. Their gravest concern is that this ideology is contributing to a medical scandal in which distressed youth are being steered toward puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries. These teachers overwhelmingly feel unsupported by their union. Many are afraid to speak out at all, concerned they will be bullied, isolated, or professionally punished for stating biological facts or questioning the medicalization of minors. The union’s framing treats disagreement with contested gender ideology as an existential threat. It erases the same-sex attracted educators who want sex-based protections, resources based in biological reality and age-appropriate education. Protecting children from experimental interventions and sexualized materials is not discrimination. It is safeguarding. The BCTF leadership is free to hold its views. It does not get to claim those views represent every teacher—or every lesbian, gay, or bisexual person in British Columbia. Many LGB teachers remain silent precisely because they know their union will not support them when they dissent.