With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies?

Canada's Liberal Party is no friend to the gays.

I recently wrote about how queers are making people hate gays again—and by queers I mean those who view any norms, particularly around sex and sexuality, as oppressive. While this label often does apply to people who are gay or trans-identified, that is certainly not always the case. Oftentimes it is the so-called “allies” who are doing the most damage, and Canada’s Liberal Party is a great example of this.

On June 8, Conservative MP Vincent Neil Ho posted a video that illustrates the point I was making in my previous piece beautifully. In the video, he asks Canada’s Chief Science Advisor, Dr. Mona Nemer, a simple question: What is the definition of a woman?

Immediately, Liberal MP John-Paul Danko calls a point of order and proceeds with this stunning rant:

It is Pride month, and under Standing Order 18, which prohibits personal attacks, insults, and offensive language, where this question is going is highly offensive, highly offensive. I ask the member to withdraw his comments. Asking someone what is a man or a woman is highly offensive.

The Chair, Salma Zahid, requests that MP Ho be “respectful of everybody,” to which he calmly replies that, after all, the Canadian census itself asked people what their sex and gender are, so he would just like to get the view of the Chief Science Advisor of Canada.

Before Dr. Nemer can even begin to answer, Liberal MP Taleeb Noormohamed now calls a point of order and demands that MP Ho rephrase his question within the context of her mandate, because apparently, her answer would merely be an irrelevant “opinion.”

The fact that these two are trying to make it so hard to get the answer to such a simple question is astounding.

Dr. Nemer then begins to answer and says that, genetically speaking, females in the animal kingdom are defined as having two X chromosomes. This is… disappointing and not the best definition, but good enough for the majority of cases, I suppose. (The much more accurate answer would be that a woman, or a female, has a body organized around the production of large gametes.)

At any rate, MP Ho thanks her and notes that when they had the National Research Council Canada president, Mitch Davies, at the committee a week prior, he seemed to think that “woman” is just a checkbox. MP Ho disagrees and believes that it’s important to know what a woman is if we want to celebrate women’s achievements. Thank you, MP Ho!

After MP Ho posted the clip online, MP Danko also took to X and wrote:

Absolutely disgusting anti-trans behaviour by @vincentneilho during #pridemonth - deliberately generating hatred, division and bigotry.

And he’s proud of himself.

This is @PierrePoilievre‘s @CPC_HQ

Fellow Liberal MP Doug Eyolfson joined in as well, posting:

@vincentneilho engaging in a disgraceful transphobic line of questioning during Science and Research Committee and then bragging about it. @CPC_HQ seems to think that this is acceptable behaviour in its MP’s.

So, to summarize, Canada’s Liberal MPs believe that the definition of a woman is a personal opinion and not relevant to the mandate of the Chief Science Advisor. Furthermore, it is extremely offensive and transphobic to ask someone what a woman is, especially during Pride Month.

These kinds of histrionic woke tantrums are exactly what I am talking about when I say that queers and their allies have pushed and continue to push their delusional agenda so hard that it is blowing back on the entire LGBT. No normal, sane person wants to deal with this nonsense. When they finally encounter it, even those who once considered themselves allies and who took a “live and let live” approach throw up their hands and say, “fuck it, to hell with all of you.”

What’s worse is that I don’t believe these Liberal MPs, all married straight men, actually genuinely care about gay and trans-identified people and how any of this affects us and society’s perception of us. I think they are doing two things with all of their bluster: 1) pandering to their base, obviously, and 2) trying to save the face of the Liberal Party.

You see, after the passage of Bill C-16, which added “gender identity and expression” to the Canadian Human Rights Act and Criminal Code, the Liberals have gone all in on gender ideology. One of the more grotesque outcomes of this legislation is the transfer of men, many of them sex offenders, into women’s prisons based solely on their self-declared “gender identity.”

The Liberals can’t admit they know what a woman is and can’t allow anyone else to say they do because they have invested so much time and energy into supporting an ideology that says sex doesn’t matter and isn’t real anyway. So now, they have to push back hard whenever basic biological truth comes close to being acknowledged.

I do understand that these MPs almost certainly view the question of “what is a woman?” as some kind of right-wing dog whistle. Yes, implicit in the question is the assertion that a woman is a real, definable type of being and that a man would not fit the definition. But it is exactly the problem that merely describing reality is considered to be “right-wing,” and therefore bigoted and hateful. If it is hateful to describe what a woman is and acknowledge that a man is not a woman, then your definition of hate is ridiculous and can be roundly dismissed by society.

It is a grossly totalitarian impulse to insist that asking basic questions and making basic observations is offensive. By insisting that this question is particularly out of order during Pride Month, which is supposedly for celebrating gender and sexual minorities, you are essentially saying that Pride itself is totalitarian. And you think this makes you a good ally?

John-Paul Danko, Taleeb Noormohamed, and you too, Doug Eyolfson (and ultimately to the entire Liberal Party): You are not helping anyone, least of all the people you are supposedly sticking up for. No one who isn’t already on your side is going to see you acting as speech and thought police and say to themselves, “wow, I really should align myself with this cause.” In fact, the only thing your tantrums possibly accomplished was turning off people who may have been sympathetic and even further angering those who were already against everything Pride and queer and LGBT.

I implore you to stop demanding that people ask or even know what a woman is on my behalf. I am a lesbian. I am not confused about being a woman. I know my wife is a woman. I know the daughter I gave birth to will be a woman and I don’t want her to be confused about that either. I don’t want anyone to be confused or silenced about it. By making it seem as if people like us demand this insanity, you make us look stupid and contemptible in the eyes of society. And as I have already warned, the backlash is here, and I blame you.