By Gender Dissent
Turkey's public broadcaster, the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT), has drawn international attention to one of our best-concealed domestic conflicts with its recent documentary, Gender Wars in Canada.
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Introduction: Turkey's public broadcaster does what Canada's will not
The six truth bombers of Gender Wars in Canada, in their order of appearance:
Afterword: The world has shifted "bigly"
Introduction
Launched in September on TRT World, the documentary is written and hosted in English by journalist and producer, Eren Doguoglu. It reflects growing international concern about the inherent dangers of gender identity ideology and its impacts on individuals and families.
In presenting a series of women’s stories that challenge our mainstream media’s rosy portrayals of transgender life, this documentary exposes several critical issues with the gender movement that are typically ignored, downplayed or vehemently denied in our country’s lopsided public discourse on this topic.
Gender Wars in Canada is told through Eren’s face-to-face interviews with Canadian women who have been traumatized, terrorized, abandoned and assaulted for their stances on gender identity practice and policy. The film also features women whose professional lives have been cut short, or who are otherwise driven by their concern for Canada's youth and their families under our government’s forced gender regime.
“Canada's liberal policies on gender identity are reshaping the education and healthcare systems, but at what cost? This documentary dives deep into the devastating consequences of gender ideology that is tearing families apart. From the introduction of SOGI 1-2-3 in schools to the healthcare system's unchecked power, we hear the real stories of families and individuals left struggling to protect their children from policies that override parental rights and push irreversible decisions onto young minds.” —TRT World
Contrast the production of this documentary by the Turkish public broadcaster with the lack of similar programming from Canadian mainstream media—particularly the grossly government-funded Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Since the Liberal government’s stealth steal of women’s sex-based rights in 2016, English-language CBC has avoided airing opinions and analyses that challenge gender ideology, defaulting instead to platforming those who denigrate and cancel non-believers. Canada’s mainstream media coverage of the gender issue typically spotlights men wearing lipstick who receive government grants to lobby for access to women’s spaces and activities—generally the same men who lobby for medical and surgical gender intervention for minors.
In December 2017, six months after gender identity and gender expression became prohibited grounds of discrimination under the law, CBC canceled the airing of a BBC television documentary that critically examined the treatment of children with gender dysphoria. The CBC decided not to air Transgender Kids: Who Knows Best? following transgender-rights activist backlash and claims that it spread misinformation and reinforced transphobic ideas.
Instead, CBC went on to invest in entertainment products “offering insight into the realities of the transgender community,” producing three seasons of the sitcom Sort Of, about a gender-fluid man of South Asian descent living his best, authentic life in Toronto.
It also made this “explainer,” about gender for CBC Kids News:
“The word gender is in the news a lot lately. We are discovering that our gender is not only determined by the body parts we have, but also by how we feel. CBC Kids News breaks it down for you with our animated friends Sid and Ruby.” — CBC Kids News episode description, 2019
On its documentary platform, CBC offers numerous shows on the transgender theme or starring “trans” characters targeted at both kids and adults.
CBC Gem’s shows include Not Your Average Family. The description of its first episode reads: “Trans influencer Charlie stops testosterone to restart his menstrual cycle – with dramatic consequences. Meanwhile, Lauren prepares for motherhood by facing her debilitating fear of sickness.”
Another is I am Skylar, a 2019 National Film Board documentary about a transgender-identifying teenager in Nova Scotia.
Screenshot from I am Skylar, a National Film Board Production
In I am Skylar, an effeminate and healthy boy is “affirmed” as a "girl" by his parents at 10 years old, feted by his school and community, and medicalized before he goes through the dreaded “boy puberty.”
All of these entertainment emissions present gender-believing as a done deal for Canadian society.
No discussion, no debate. You’re a transphobe if you ask questions. Put up and shut up.
To the relief and astonishment of the gender skeptics engaged in this social struggle, Radio Canada, the French arm of the CBC, did produce and broadcast a documentary, Trans Express, in February of this year. On Radio Canada's Youtube channel it’s titled Transition médicale de genre chez les mineurs : le Québec va-t-il trop vite?.
The investigative report confirmed there are no safeguards in place for youth in Quebec who fall into the gender trap. It showed us that Quebec youth are being medically ambushed under the “trans-affirmative approach” where adolescents are provided easy access to puberty blockers, hormones, and surgeries. Naturally, journalist Pasquale Turbide, was forced to defend her decision to look into, and to prove (which she did), the alleged medical mishandling and manipulation of gender-confused children in la belle province.
Searches on the English CBC website—including a search of the translated title, Medical gender transition for minors: Is Quebec moving too fast?—result in no mentions of the Radio Canada documentary.
Likewise the search for any Canadian legacy media coverage of TRT World’s Gender Wars in Canada. Nada.
Consider: An international documentary, starring six Canadian women sharing their real-life stories about a current high-profile medical and political scandal receives zero notice from Canadian mainstream media. Zilch.
In fact, when you look around, Gender Wars in Canada has received little attention from our alternative gender-critical media either. One wonders.
It’s easy to imagine that the film is being quashed online by pesky censors that don’t want Canadians to know all what’s being said about us by suspicious foreign actors.
Perhaps the Liberal government's Online Streaming Act (Bill C-11, aka the Censorship Bill), passed in April 2023, is doing what it set out to do and is increasing visibility (i.e., prioritizing) favored Canadian content over other content through the manipulation of our playlists, feeds, and algorithmic recommendations.
It’s also easy to imagine that the gender-critical/pro-reality women’s groups and related grassroots networks—that have been working tirelessly over the past seven years to raise awareness of the issue—are resistant to acknowledging and promoting the efforts of an outsider.
One might also surmise that the current Canadian government’s anti-family, anti-woman, pro-transgender approach to civil rights, education and health care is being used by TRT World as a warning for certain countries, like Turkey, say, with predominantly Muslim populations, of how bad it can get in a country where there are no limits placed on how its people identify themselves and interact with each other.
“We find ourselves in an era where defining the boundaries of freedom has become increasingly challenging. Governments have blurred the line between sensible action and granting its citizens unrestricted freedom.” —Eren Doguoglu, Gender Wars in Canada
According to Britain's Financial Times, TRT World, “under the wing of the state-run Turkish Radio and Television Corporation, is at the forefront of an ambitious effort by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s president, to shape how the country is viewed around the world.”
When Gender Dissent inquired why TRT made the film, the Toronto-based production team responded that the transgender rights theme is “not limited to Canada.”
“There is a broader picture and agenda here. No major Western media was covering the story and refrain from even speaking about it.” —Sky Rex Productions
Despite the motives behind this Turkish exposé, the scarcity of objective programming on the troubles of transgenderism in Canada underscores the importance of recognizing the six determined women who stepped up to create this film.
As has been repeatedly demonstrated, women who speak publicly on this issue, in Canada and abroad, typically face cancellation, hostility and aggression from trans rights activists and the politicians who support them. The courageous stars of Gender Wars in Canada have put their personal safety and security on the line by sharing their stories with TRT World’s international audience.
Their courage calls for a greater awareness and appreciation among Canadians of their experiences and perspectives.
So let’s do it.
The six stars of Gender Wars in Canada, in their order of appearance:
KELLIE-LYNN PIRIE — Detranstioner, Founder of Detrans Alliance Canada
Kellie-Lynn Pirie — Gender Wars in Canada, TRT World
Kellie-Lynn tells Eren about the childhood sexual exploitation she endured as a child by her step-father—a previously convicted pedophile. The psychological and emotional damage resulting from that abuse would lead her, as an adult, to surgically and medically modify her body and to identify as a man.
“I developed a false belief that boys didn’t get sexually exploited. I saw other girls getting sexually exploited but it wasn’t happening to boys. I saw fathers protecting their sons from being sexually exploited…. I would have been better off if I had been born a boy.” —Kellie-Lynn Pirie
Now “de-transitioned” and having reclaimed her sex, Kellie-Lynn speaks about the regret of having altered her body and her shame of having been a trans rights activist. She admits, sadly, to encouraging others to medically transition.
“It's not something I’m proud of, but it’s something I did. I was as blind as everybody else to the complications of those surgeries and just how fundamentally flawed the research was. The hard part was, that in all of the advocacy I’d done, I’d been lying to other people.”
Kellie-Lynn had also been lied to. In spite of the surgeries and complications she endured for her belief that her gender dysphoria would be relieved, it was not.
Instead, she came to understand the magnitude of the lies told by the self-serving trans-advocacy system that persuaded her to undergo the surgeries she now regrets. When asked why she doesn't sue the doctors who attended her transition, Kellie-Lynn explains, “the Canadian legal system is really resistant to allowing people to sue a physician.”
Kellie-Lynn says that since she started speaking her truth, she has been dropped by all of her friends in the LGBTQ community—the last one leaving her “over this documentary.”
“Being a man isn’t a feeling,” insists Kellie-Lynn. “It’s what you are. I am female because I was born a girl.”
She calls for a return to the message that once inspired girls and young women, before children were led to believe that cross-sex identification and medicalization are necessary if they reject, or don’t conform to, traditional female stereotypes:
“You can be a girl however you want to be a girl.” —Kellie Lynn Pirie
On X, Kellie-Lynn shares details and photos about her life before and during her transition:
By 2011, Kellie-Lynn, now calling herself Kenneth, was working as a long-haul trucker. She writes about her realization that the surgeries and medicalization she had subjected her body to were not helping her live her best life:
“All these things that were supposed to magically fix everything, all they had done was render me completely invisible to the people I was sexually attracted to. I had become an average Joe. No lesbians noticed me, and no heterosexual men found me desirable.
So I went long haul trucking. Immersed in a male dominated profession where I came to understand all the ways in which I, as a woman, was different from my male colleagues.”
In 2023, Kellie-Lynn founded Detrans Alliance Canada, “a resource for people who are detrans, desisters or regretters.”
“GENDER NON-CONFORMITY IS NOT PATHOLOGY”
On the Detrans Alliance Canada website, we learn about their Referendum 2024 initiative: “We are collaborating with others to trigger provincial referendums, leading to a federal referendum, in order to prioritize sex-based rights over ‘gender identity’ in Canada.”
In April of this year, Kellie-Lynn spoke with Meghan Murphy on The Same Drugs podcast. She then appeared with Meghan and other truth-bombing Canadian women on a Vancouver Island Speaks panel in May 2024.
In October, Kellie-Lynn spoke at a news conference where Premier Danielle Smith introduced Alberta’s much-anticipated legislation prohibiting doctors from treating children under 16 with puberty blockers and hormone therapies.
“This is simply not a decision we can expect children to make,” she said.
“I simply don’t understand how I, as a 37-year-old adult with a post secondary education, wasn’t ready to make such a life-altering decision … how can we possibly support, encourage or allow our children to do so?” —Kellie-Lynn Pirie on Global News, October 31, 2024
EMILY DUGGAN — Mother, Founder of Moms Against the Norm
Emily Duggan — Gender Wars in Canada, TRT World
Emily Duggan, a mother of two young girls in British Columbia, ran for school board trustee in 2022 on a platform promoting parental rights. Her campaign messaging included controversial hot-takes such as:
Parental involvement in your children's education is essential;
Open and honest communication with parent/guardians is imperative; and,
Students thrive when their families are involved in their education. There’s no space for secrets.
Emily Duggan for school board trustee 2022, campaign poster.
Emily had learned about the LGBTQ education programs that were rolling out across the province and had become “more and more vocal” about her disagreement with their principles.
It didn’t win her votes.
After losing that school board election, Emily started up the parental rights and child safeguarding group, Moms Against The Norm with a mission to raise awareness about the perils of SOGI 123.
Emily tells Eren that since she made her views known, she has been subject to extreme online and in-real-life harassment and assault, including threats on her life.
“Somebody left a comment on one of my videos saying they know where we live,” says Emily. “They know where my husband works, they know where my kids go to school... They even said, ‘This is a threat. If you do not stop Moms Against the Norm now, we will kill you.’”
Here is what appears to be an example of psychological harassment from some nefarious player who appropriated the name of Emily’s parental rights group to create a false internet address. Clicking on this link, momsagainstthenorm.com, brings you to a slideshow of pro-trans dictums that ends with this apparent “message” to Emily:
Gender Dissent covered the ARC Foundation’s contributions to establishing SOGI 123 in BC Schools in 2022.
Emily is not backing down.
“To stop now would mean that everything I have done and everything my family has endured would be for nothing.” — Emily Duggan
“I think the more I can engage with people, the more conversations I can spark, the more people I can inspire to have these conversations, the better,” Emily says. “I'm very grateful for this film because this is one more step in creating awareness to keep conversations going.”
Emily spoke with the Weekly Canadian Culture Wars Report about her experiences in running for school board trustee in October 2023.
In March of this year, Emily ran again for school board trustee, this time losing out to one Birkley Valks—a transgender-identified, self-labeled "father" of three and a drag king performer. Emily spoke with Rebel News about that then-pending election.
In October, Emily was invited to share her concerns and experiences at the Vancouver hearings for the National Citizens Inquiry—Are children safe in Canada?
TAMI MAIN — Mother
Tami Main — Gender Wars in Canada, TRT World
Tami Main tells a story that is becoming all too common in Canada. One in which a troubled (or creative) teenaged child leaves home for university or college and comes back with a brand-new identity (gender or otherwise), or, as with Tami's daughter, doesn't come back at all.
Tami explains how her daughter began to experience serious mental health issues as a young teen following the traumatic divorce of Tami and her husband. Her daughter then, as all Canadian children did, spent a significant amount of time in pandemic lockdown isolation where she was exposed to SOGI 123 conditioning through online schooling, and extreme gender-identity culture through non-stop Instagram.
A counselor assigned to work with her daughter failed miserably, in Tami's view, to address her daughter's underlying psychological distress. In fact, reveals Tami, the counselor disregarded her daughter’s concerning mental health history, deciding instead that she was autistic, and then proceeded to further indoctrinate her daughter with nonsense ideas about being transgender.
“Canada is tearing families apart with this gender ideology being shoved down everyone’s throats. And it’s everywhere. Not just in the school system. It’s [also] in the healthcare system.” — Tami Main
At 17, Tami's daughter enrolled in university two provinces away. Following a visit home at Christmas during her first year, Tami saw that her daughter’s mental health had further deteriorated. After that one visit, Tami’s daughter went “no-contact” and reportedly began to identify "as a boy, or a bird."
Tami made several attempts to connect with her daughter but her efforts were thwarted by university and provincial officials. Under Canada's Privacy Act, Tami learned, no one was obliged to share information about her daughter with her, even though she was still a minor.
"In Saskatchewan they consider age 15 or 16 an adult," says Tami, "and if a child doesn't want to go home at that age, they won't make them."
Tami also asked the police to conduct wellness checks on her daughter after learning through a surprise ambulance bill that her daughter had been taken to hospital for a drug overdose. After two such wellness checks, they refused to do any more and warned Tami that repeated wellness checks constituted harassment.
Tami’s daughter remains no-contact.
Tami spoke with Gender Dissent about the experience of making the film and where she believes the responsibility for her daughter’s delusion lies.
“I hold Justin Trudeau personally responsible for what has happened to my daughter. One hundred percent. And anyone who votes for him—well, I guess they want this for their family.” —Tami Main
Tami learned from a relative that her daughter was working at a paint store. Tami’s relative described her daughter’s voice as “deeper than her husband’s” indicating she is now on testosterone.
“She’s ruined her body,” cries Tami. “But this is OK for our government, you know?”
Photo from When Trans Activism Becomes Government Policy, by Margaret Wente and Jonathan Kay in Quillette, August 2023
Tami reveals more about her daughter's mental health collapses as a young teen following her father's desertion of her and Tami. Episodes included a suicide attempt which required her daughter be sectioned.
“I have nightmares about this. What, they’re going to call me and tell me that she’s dead in a ditch somewhere?”
“As a parent,” she says, “my hands are tied. There is nothing I can do for her whatsoever.”
In 2023, Tami wrote a detailed letter about her family’s situation which is posted and read aloud on the Moms Against the Norm Rumble page:
On October 1, Tami also provided testimony at the Vancouver hearings for the National Citizens Inquiry—Are children safe in Canada?
“My testimony was in regards to the Privacy Act," writes Tami, “and the gross overreach of government control on our children. Most parents don’t actually know they have no rights, unless they are dealing with a troubled child."
"I also talked about being treated like a criminal for wanting to help my own daughter."
Tami Main providing testimony at the National Citizen’s Inquiry—Are children safe in Canada?
CHANEL PFAHL — Teacher, Researcher, Advocate
Chanel Pfahl — Gender Wars in Canada, TRT World
Not long into her teaching career, Chanel became a target of the progressive ideologues in her professional community when she shared her thoughts in a private social media group for teachers.
“I wrote that we shouldn't be indoctrinating kids with critical race theory. And then somebody complained…”
For that post, Chanel was removed from the classroom, barred from the school grounds, forbidden to communicate with colleagues or parents, and her pay was suspended.
It was just the start of what would become several years of multiple investigations—four to date—all of which have been dropped, but not without warnings.
Chanel is living the adage, “the punishment is the process”—the concept that being subjected to a lengthy, invasive and costly legal or bureaucratic process is as burdensome and punishing as a formal penalty, regardless of the ultimate outcome. Even if the person involved is eventually exonerated or vindicated.
She tells Eren how, as a young teacher, she had been the organizer of the Pride Club at her school.
“I wouldn't call it political at the time. I just thought I was doing what was right … being kind and being inclusive … giving a safe space to those kids who perhaps needed it.”
“I was completely … clueless.”
Chanel describes for Eren how the public education system has progressed from offering voluntary involvement in 2SLGBTQI+ activities to making it mandatory by default, including pronoun rituals and declaring one’s gender identity to the class—often repeatedly.
Our Pronoun Patch, a class activity suggestion found on Pinterest.
Chanel answered some questions from Gender Dissent:
GD: While the circumstances that resulted in your teaching suspension from school were related to your concerns around critical race theory (CRT), this film is focused on the harms of gender ideology. How are the two concepts related in your situation?
Chanel: Both critical race theory and gender ideology are part of what people might call "woke ideology" or "woke Marxism."
Both belief systems emphasize the importance of group identity in determining one’s power in society. In the case of gender ideology, it is theorized, for example, that those who acknowledge and embrace the reality of their sex rather than identify as another given "gender" have more power and privilege, whereas those who reject their sex and want to be recognized as a member of another given "gender" category are marginalized and oppressed.
Critical race theory also places people on a hierarchy of privileged to oppressed, but based on their race. It does away with the idea that we shouldn’t judge people by their skin colour, emphasizing instead that if we are to better society, we must see and consider race in all of our interactions. Given its assertion that people of colour are oppressed based on their skin colour (whether they know it or not), CRT activists advocate for preferential treatment for people who are not white, including hiring based on race, "safe spaces" for people of colour, etc. They view this redistribution of power as necessary.
GD: What do you think about the fact that Turkey’s public broadcaster has made a documentary about what's going on in Canada when our own public broadcaster refuses to cover the issue from a critical or impartial perspective?
Chanel: It’s really quite something. The mainstream media in Canada refuses to fairly explore this topic. They are mostly interested in demonizing dissidents like me rather than doing the job true reporters should, which would involve a willingness to properly investigate our criticisms of woke ideology and to portray them honestly.
GD: Is there anything from your interview that did not make it into the film that you would like to have on record?
Chanel: The main things I’d like to convey to Canadians is that woke indoctrination in schools IS a widespread issue I have been documenting for some time now. Parents NEED to do their due diligence, understand the ideology undoubtedly being promoted in their child’s school—Catholic or not—and protect their kids however they can.
A few books I’d recommend:
The Parasitic Mind [by Gad Saad]
Cynical Theories [by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay], and
The Queering of the American Child [by Logan Lancing with James Lindsay].
"Being a voice of reasonable dissent should not result in punishment by a regulator. Although the investigation was a lengthy and unnecessary ordeal, I am very pleased with the result. Freedom of expression prevailed, and I owe much gratitude to my two wonderful lawyers at TDF [The Democracy Fund] for defending me." — Chanel Pfahl Photo: Phillippe Gosselin
The Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN), a federally-funded entity that claims to monitor and expose “hate promoting movements, groups, and individuals in Canada,” published a hit piece on Chanel when she ran for Ottawa-Carleton school board trustee in 2021.
CAHN accused Chanel of being a “fear monger” and of being far-right adjacent. Then they quoted her entirely valid statement to support their career-destroying accusations:
"Gender identity is a pseudoscientific concept which harms kids–especially the gender non-conforming kids with some level of gender dysphoria, who are most susceptible to it." —Chanel Pfahl
That the CAHN failed to recognize that Chanel is perfectly positioned to point out the inherent homophobia in gender ideology underscores the malicious myopia of this government-trained watchdog.
Since 2017, Liberal lawmakers, pressured by lobby groups such as Egale, Wisdom to Action and the Society for Queer Momentum, have voted for legal, educational and medical frameworks that place belief in transgenderism above biological, scientific fact.
The laws and policies enacted in Canada under our current government have succeeded in confusing and disparaging young gay or lesbian people, often stripping them of their intellectual development (via puberty blockers) and sexual and reproductive potential (via wrong-sex hormones and surgery)—a process commonly referred to as “transing the gay away.”
“Gay teens aren't sick. Most young people who are prescribed puberty blockers say they are attracted to people of the opposite sex.” From Time to stop “transing the gay away", by LGB Alliance
The National Post covered Chanel’s fight against woke extremism in schools in a podcast in 2023.
The Parents Rights Coalition of Canada featured Chanel as a speaker at the National Parents Rights Summit in May 2024.
TERRI HAYDAR — Grandmother, Co-founder of Mama Bears (of Police on Guard)
Terri Haydar— Gender Wars in Canada, TRT World
A grandmother and a retired correctional officer, Terri tells Eren that she was delivered unto activism through her involvement in Police on Guard—a group of active duty and retired law enforcement and military persons that "formed during Covid to stand against the mandates, and to stand for and honour the oath that we took to uphold the Charter of Rights and Freedoms."
“It was very difficult,” says Terri, “to watch what was happening with the children with the lockdowns… and in the fall of 2021, they rolled the covid shot out for teenagers. We felt we needed to do something to protect the children and so we started Mama Bears.”
“Mama Bears is a child advocate organization dedicated to providing children and parents with accurate and up-to-date information on topics concerning children’s health and general welfare,” including gender dysphoria.
With Mama Bears, explains Terri to Eren, “we're encouraging parents to stand up and protect your children.” Mama Bears offers tips to parents, “because everything is hidden,” says Terri, “don’t presume that because it’s a cartoon that it’s child friendly.”
Terri speaks about the availability of sexually explicit reading materials and overt 2SLGBTQI+ symbolism and messaging in and around Canadian schools. She describes a certain cartoon about a dog wanting to be a cat. “Well, a dog can't be a cat,” she says, “but that leads back to back to ‘I’m a little boy ... I can be a little girl.’”
In this odd cartoon, Cat Wants a New Bottom, “Catdog just wants to be a normal feline and not have Dog as his 'rear end.' Check out some interesting bottoms at Better Bottoms with CatDog!” —Cartoon description on Youtube
Terri clarifies that their argument is not about gay rights. “Gay rights have already been won in the courts,” she says.
“It’s about grooming. They’re trying to normalize pedophilia. First, they get [children] to accept sex. And then they get them to accept sexual deviance ... Everybody, unless you’re a pedophile, wants to protect the children.” —Terri Haydar
Some viewers might take issue with Terri's use of accurate language—especially those conditioned to react negatively to uncomfortable truths under the banner of diversity and inclusion. Still, the words groomer and pedophile are ones that some podcasters bleep out of their broadcasts, along with the words “rape” and “suicide,” in order to avoid being de-monitized or deplatformed.
But grooming is what it is.
The Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which forms Part One of the Constitution Act, provides Canadians with the fundamental freedom "to think our own thoughts, speak our minds, listen to views of others and express our opinions in creative ways."
However, notes the government, these freedoms are limited "if your way of doing so would infringe on the rights of others or undermine complex public programs and policies” (like the Federal 2SLGBTQI+ Action Plan, we wager). “The Charter does not protect expression such as hate speech that involves threats of violence or that takes the form of violence."
But as is playing out on the public stage in Canada, how hate speech is defined and whether such speech can be deemed violence (threatened or real) remains a point of contention.
In Canada, we have nurse Amy Hamm subjected to over three years of investigation for publicly expressing her appreciation of JK Rowling’s efforts to defend women’s sex-based rights.
And we have Dr. Jordan B Peterson, international superstar psychologist, deemed guilty of hateful conduct for criticizing a movie star whose much-celebrated “transition” helps normalize the sexual mutilation of children.
Elliot Page, mastectomy scars apparent, photographed by Ruven Afanador for Esquire, June 2022.
Perhaps lesser known and quieter, until now, the six women featured in this film are motivated by the same sense of purpose and justice as that of Hamm and Peterson. They are dedicated to contributing to to the takedown of Canada’s authoritarian gender regime—one that has been permitted to run roughshod over its own women and children.
“There’s really no option,” says Terri. We couldn’t look at ourselves in the mirror every morning if we didn’t do everything that we possibly can to help save the kids.”
DR. ANN GILLIES — Great Grandmother, Trauma Therapist, Pastor, Founder of Restoring the Mosaic
Dr. Ann Gillies — Gender Wars in Canada, TRT World
Since 2019, “Dr. Ann,” as host Eren refers to her, has been committed to helping people understand “what is happening with our children.” Her perspective is informed by her Christian faith and her role as a pastor. Her expertise is supported with two decades of counseling adult survivors of chronic childhood sexual abuse. She emphasizes the need to "treat the underlying issues of trauma instead of the symptoms.”
An author of several books, Dr. Ann has written about treating persons suffering complex trauma, gender and sexuality confusion, and sexual predation. She rejects the notion that anyone should accept, as truth, the claims of a child who says “I must be born in the wrong body. I believe I'm a girl, I'm not a boy. Or vice versa.”
The Ultimate Deception: The Truth of Gender Affirming Care, by Ann E. Gillies Ph.D.
Dr. Ann advocates for the right for professional psychologists and therapists to be able to do their job.
“A child should not be diagnosing themselves,” Dr. Ann tells Eren.
“Truth and reality aren't lining up for these children, and all we're allowed to do as therapists is to affirm the child's delusions. Because it is a delusion. It is unrealistic to believe that you can actually become the opposite sex.” —Dr. Ann Gillies
She suggests this mass delusion is caused by our culture and our education system.
Dr. Ann refers to the Liberal government’s Conversion Therapy Bill (Bill C-4) that conflated gender identity with sexual orientation and that was passed unanimously by all government parties in December 2021. As a result, she says, psychotherapy for gender-confused children “has been outlawed.”
“According to the Canadian Psychological Association and the medical associations,” she says, “there is only one way to treat gender dysphoric children and that is to affirm their ideas and their thoughts. You can’t do anything else but tell the children they’re absolutely right.”
“As therapists, we need to speak truth to families and now we’re being told we have to lie to them.”
A recent item for Rebel News details a harrowing situation for a family in Quebec. A 14-year-old boy, influenced by his online "friends," became emotionally distant and violent before being lured away from home. Because of “Trudeau’s new Criminal Code amendments through Bill C-4, if a parent does not promote and conform to their child's new gender identity, they face criminal charges and even jail, leaving these parents in a vulnerable situation.” — Alexandra Lavoie
Dr. Ann founded Restoring the Mosaic in 2020, an organization with a mission to “strengthen Canadian national unity by educating and informing policy makers, legislators, and educational leaders with clinical research that will assist them to establish programs and policies that allow individuals with crises in identity to recover wholeness.”
The Restoring the Mosaic website provides resources and support related to trauma recovery, particularly in the context of identity, sexuality, and faith.
On her podcast, Truth Talks with Dr. Ann, she explains “my passion is bringing truth into the darkness… I want to be able to help pull back that veil of darkness and expose truth wherever I can.”
In September 2024, Dr. Ann spoke and preached on Parliament Hill during the second Million March for Children.
Dr. Ann Gillies addresses demonstrators on Parliament Hill, September 20, 2024.
“We're here to promote faith, family and freedom. Marxism, queer theory, and gender ideology are on the other side of the scale. They want to turn upside-down everything that is reality. We need to stand firm for our families.”
Dr. Ann spoke of the destruction of the traditional family at the hands of Marxist queer theorists that now teach our children throughout the Canadian school system.
“Queer theory and gender ideology pose a threat to our freedoms in Canada, particularly the freedom of speech and the freedom of religion," said Dr. Ann. "It includes the mandate of using specific language. Remember, Jordan Peterson in 2016 cautioned parliamentarians on what we would call the ‘Trans Pronoun Bill.’"
"Well look what's happened, folks. He was absolutely right."
Dr. Ann calls on Canadians to reinstate faith, family and freedom as guiding principles for society.
“This doesn’t mean imposing a particular religion or religious view on other people,” she says, “but it recognizes a higher moral authority.”
As to the identity of this higher moral authority, Dr. Ann is unequivocal:
“Prime Minister Trudeau ... You are not God. You are not God." —Dr. Ann Gillies
Gender Wars in Canada concludes with host Eren’s reflections on what he has learned from these six resolute women:
“Traveling to Canada has been a profound experience. What stood out the most was how happy people were to find someone willing to listen to them. Someone willing to tell their story.” —Eren Doguoglu
The more the better, Eren. The more the better.
Thanks for coming.
Afterword
The world has shifted “bigly” in the time between the premiere of Gender Wars in Canada in September 2024 and the publishing of this story in November.
The United States of America has decisively re-elected Donald J. Trump as President.
Soon after his victory, this video of his election promise to protect children from “left-wing gender insanity” went viral. Here's hoping he will succeed in fulfilling his pledge and that a restored sense of sanity will soon cross the border into Canada.
“No serious country should be telling its children that they were born with the wrong gender [he means sex] – a concept that was never heard of in all of human history. Nobody's ever heard of this, what's happening today. It was all when the radical left invented it just a few years ago. Under my leadership this madness will end.” —Donald J. Trump
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