STOP “Queer Storytime Adventures for Kids & Families” – to be held in an elementary/middle school library on Sunday May 5th, 2024 at 1:30 pm!

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Concerned parents and community members are hosting a Chilliwack Community Information session at STITÓ:S LÁ:LÉM TOTÍ:LT school on Sunday May 5th at 1:00 pm. The address is 5337 Tyson Road, Chilliwack.

Have you, or other parents you know been questioning the socialization and indoctrination that has been happening in our schools, rather than education? Have you heard a little bit about how the Radical-Trans-Queer-Agenda, is being pushed on students of all ages? Would you like to know more about it, and what we can do as a community to stop this?

Educational Guests Speakers Include:

• Barry Neufeld
• Kellie-Lynn Pirie
• Marius Malciu
• Pierre Barns

Topics Include:

• School Boards
• What’s Going On In The Education System
• The Cass Review (Independent Review of Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People)
• Pornographic Books In Schools
• No-To-SOGI – Protecting Children

Chilliwack Community Information Sharing is in response to the queering of children, hosted by SD33 in a school library, sponsored by BC UNited Way (Through SD33 Trustee Teri Westerby, also known as: Community Builder Teri).

NOTE:*
The school was contacted, this is not a school sanctioned event. It has nothing to do with the principal or vice principal and they are not happy about it happening . This is a private rental happening at the school on a Sunday afternoon.

It’s the school board and the school district that manage the building rentals during non school hours. You should direct your attention to them. The superintendent is Rohan Arul-Pragasam, his email is rohan_arul@sd33.bc.ca

Hold the SD33 Board and Assistant Superintendents by cc’ing them all.

UPDATED STORY

April 29th, 2024, it was reported to RCMP by the people who appear to be the organizers of; and the artist/author of the books that were going to be read at the “Queer Storytime Adventures for Kids & Families” was cancelled, and would be rescheduled. They cited threats of violence as what caused the disruption with this Queer Storytime for Kids.

SD33 Trustee Teri Westerby

Hi Neighbour Sardis Community Initiative by United Way

MLA Kelli Paddon

United Way of B.C. says it wasn’t aware of any ‘threats of violence’ for story time event at Chilliwack school getting axed

CHILLIWACK — Despite assertions by two people that threats of violence were among the reasons for a “Queer Storytime Adventures” event being canceled at a Chilliwack school last week, the United Way of British Columbia said it was not aware of any threats of violence.

According to a social media post from the Hi Neighbour Sardis Community Initiative by United Way, organizers behind the planned speaking appearance by author Stacey Chomiak said they became aware last weekend that a group of protesters planned to demonstrate at the front of Stitó:s Lá:lém Totí:lt Elementary/Middle School property in opposition to the event, originally scheduled for Sunday, May 5 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., leading to its cancellation on school property.

The event was being formally billed as “Embrace Your Rainbow – Queer Storytime Adventures for Kids and Families.”

“Following discussions with local representatives, including the RCMP, as well as United Way British Columbia leadership, it has been determined that the event cannot proceed as public safety cannot be ensured,” Hi Neighbour Sardis Community Initiative by United Way wrote on Facebook.

Chilliwack Board of Education member Teri Westerby wrote on social media that the decision to cancel the event arose “not out of choice, but necessity, due to the unacceptable threats of violence towards our event.” Westerby did not elaborate on social media about what the threats of violence specifically meant or what threats of violence occurred. Chomiak, the author, made a similar statement on Facebook that threats of violence contributed to the event’s demise.

In response to the claims of “violence,” Fraser Valley Today specifically asked United Way B.C. what threats of violence prompted the event to be closed, and whether those involved bomb threats or threats to harm anyone.

A spokesperson for the United Way British Columbia says the cancellation stemmed more from planned protests, not threats of violence.

“United Way B.C. was not aware of any threats of violence, but as we learned protestors were planning a disruption we realized we could no longer ensure a positive experience for everyone involved and made the difficult decision to cancel,” said Dara Hill, United Way B.C. spokesperson. “Our vision is for healthy, caring, inclusive communities.”

Hill added that any comments made by people in their own personal social media feeds did not necessarily reflect the views of United Way B.C.

In response to a media inquiry asking whether there were any threats of violence connected to the event, a Chilliwack RCMP spokesperson told Fraser Valley Today in an email last week that she could not comment on the matter and could only confirm that police were aware of the speaking event.

Fraser Valley Today reached out to Shelley O’Brien, communications manager for the Chilliwack School District, seeking comment on the matter. O’Brien later directed FVT to contact the group behind the event, which in this case was Hi Neighbour Sardis Community Initiative by United Way.

“While the Chilliwack School District offers community rental space at many of our school sites, non-school events such as this one are fully organized and managed by the client renting the facility,” O’Brien wrote in an email to Fraser Valley Today. “Please feel free to reach out directly to the community organization and/or the individual who posted on social media for further information.”

Westerby, who was slated to be the event facilitator, said on social media that he was disheartened by the cancellation.

After learning that threats of violence were not the primary reason for the cancellation, Fraser Valley Today sought comment from Westerby and Chomiak on Friday, May 3 asking what threats of violence occurred that contributed to the event being cancelled. Neither one responded as of Monday afternoon, May 6.

Fraser Valley Today also reached out to the Hi Neighbour United Way group at 5:02 p.m. Thursday, May 2 seeking comment, and was referred to the United Way of B.C. for comment at 2:30 a.m. Friday morning, May 3.

Shared from https://fraservalleytoday.ca/2024/05/06/united-way-of-b-c-says-it-wasnt-aware-of-any-threats-of-violence-for-story-time-event-at-chilliwack-school-getting-axed/

Our Duty Canada’s Official Letter re: The Cass Review

How the Cass Review relates to Canada- an official letter from Our Duty Canada

On the back of the release of the final systematic Cass Review conducted by Dr. Hilary Cass, an accomplished British honorary physician in pediatric disability, ODC crafted an official letter to raise awareness and to call for a similar review in Canada. We sent the letter to public health officials, the Premiere of each province and, of course, our incredibly biased Prime Minister.

We encourage you to use this letter in full or in pieces to send to those in positions of authority who continue to push the now discredited gender affirming care model onto vulnerable children and adolescents.

You can access a PDF copy of the letter HERE or read it below.

We are a group of concerned parents, most of whom have children struggling with gender distress and grappling with the largely unrestricted social and medical options being presented to them in Canada.  We believe that no child has the necessary cognitive and psychosocial maturity to provide informed consent to the use of synthetic cross-sex hormones and surgical procedures (referred to as “gender affirming care”) that may permanently damage their health, sexual function and fertility.  As a group, we share a very unique perspective based on 2 strengths: (1) We have a wealth of first-hand experience with children experiencing gender distress, because we parent them, as well as with the medical and mental health practitioners who have recommended gender-affirming care for these children, and (2) As dedicated parents, some of whom are also researchers, academics and mental health professionals, we also carefully follow the results of peer-reviewed research in this area, which, to date, has NOT yielded strong evidence of the safety or effectiveness of these gender affirming medical treatments. Therefore, we work to increase public awareness and pressure our social, medical and political organizations to conduct themselves from an evidence-based perspective.

The most recent research-based findings related to gender-affirming care were released on 10 April 2024 in the form of the Cass Review. Given the incredible scope and significance of this review, we are writing to ensure that you are aware of its key findings and corresponding recommendations. Although this systematic review of evidence was executed in England, focusing on The Gender Identity Development Service for children and adolescents which is managed by the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, its findings and recommendations are relevant to the practice of what is referred to as gender  affirming care in Canada.

The Independent Review of Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People (The Cass Review) was commissioned by NHS England and NHS Improvement in Autumn 2020 to make recommendations about the services provided by the NHS to children and young people who are questioning their gender identity or experiencing gender incongruence. 

Below is a table with several key findings of the Cass Review, the review’s corresponding recommendations, and their relevance to the Canadian context.

It is important to highlight that the Cass Review is not the first significant systematic review to reach the conclusion that there are serious problems with the way gender affirming care has been practiced in several Western countries. Over the past two years, there has been a growing body of evidence confirming that gender affirming care is not evidence-based, and that its experimental nature makes it unsafe and unethical. 

A 2023 article in the prestigious British Medical Journal summarizes the findings of other systematic reviews of the evidence that underpins gender affirming care and highlights the serious gaps and weaknesses of this evidence base. The article further states that the “priority for health professionals must be to offer the best possible care to their patients” and that “difficulties arise when the evidence base is preliminary or inconclusive.” The article reminds mental health and medical bodies that, as a fundamental principle of care, they must “ensure that the strength of your management recommendations is in line with the strength of the evidence.”

More recently, in March 2024, the WPATH Files expose and confirm the WPATH’s experimental nature, its lack of proper accreditation, and the knowledge among its members that the gender affirming treatments it continues to recommend are harming children, adolescents and vulnerable adults. The extent of this harm, as WPATH members themselves admit, is unknown at best, and dire at worst. 

Also in 2024, this 20-year Finnish study concludes that current research does NOT show that gender-affirming care improves the mental health outcomes of children and adolescents. Perhaps most importantly, this research does NOT find decreased suicide rates in youth who have accessed gender-affirming medical treatment. These research findings are especially important because of the widespread misconception that if trans-identified children and adolescents do not take cross-sex hormones and undergo body-altering surgeries, their mental health will decline and they may even take their own lives. If this were truly the case, there would be ample evidence of these outcomes from around the world. Notwithstanding evidence to the contrary, the suicide myth is an unsubstantiated claim that continues to be made by WPATH and other medical professionals and organizations that recommend gender affirming care. 

We urge you to read the final Cass Review and seriously consider its findings and recommendations. In light of this, we once again strongly recommend that a similar review be commissioned in Canada, as has been done in other progressive European countries. Our failure to heed the warnings of those countries that are distancing themselves from the gender affirming care model in favour of less risky and irreversible interventions as a first line of treatment, particularly for children and adolescents, will mean that Canada will continue to fall behind in terms of providing first-rate, evidence-based, individualized, safe and effective medical care to our citizens. 

In Support of Children and Families,

Our Duty Canada

Shared from https://ourduty.group/2024/05/01/our-duty-canadas-official-letter-re-the-cass-review/
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