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FIRST READING: 'Hate speech' to critique child gender transitioning, says Nova Scotia minister
Nova Scotia MLA was responding to report highlighting school policy of socially transitioning children without consent
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FIRST READING: 'Hate speech' to critique child gender transitioning, says Nova Scotia minister Back to video
In a speech defending a Nova Scotia policy of schoolchildren gender-transitioning without parental consent, a Progressive Conservative minister called its critics “fearmongers,” “disgusting” and purveyors of “hate speech.”
That same speech would also see him defending the terms of a new social work bill by stating that parents don’t “deserve rights over a child.”
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“I’ll be damned if I’m going to stand here and listen to someone say that the parents deserve rights over a child. No, they don’t. They........