Perhaps the Canadian government would love to subject conservative U.S. states to the kind of reeducation it’s visiting on famed psychologist and author Jordan Peterson, who has been ordered to undergo “social media training” for criticizing the “transgender” agenda. Or maybe Canuck officials would like to arrest such states’ governors as they did a father who didn’t use his young daughter’s preferred pronouns. They can’t, of course, but are petulant enough to pursue a stamp-your-foot, hands-on-the-hips version of government activism:
Ottowa has issued a travel advisory, warning sexual devolutionary (aka, “LGBTQ+”) Canadians of the perils awaiting them if they visit certain U.S. states.
The issue, of course, is recently passed state laws that protect schoolchildren from sexual devolutionary propaganda (aka “gender and sexual orientation” instruction), prohibit sexual-distortion treatments (SDTs, aka “gender affirming care”) for minors, and create situation-specific bans on drag shows. As PinkNews reports:
Global Affairs Canada (GAC), which advises on subjects like entry requirements, visas, border control, and cultural and legal differences in other territories, has now been updated to advise LGBTQ+ visitors to the US to check state and local laws before planning a trip.
As of Tuesday (29 August), the Canadian travel advisory’s ‘Laws and Culture’ section, which warns citizens of risks when travelling to the US, has been updated to recognise the risks posed to LGBTQ+ people.
The update reads: “Some states have enacted laws and policies that may affect 2SLGBTQI+ persons. Check relevant state and local laws.”
The advisory also warns, “Not all countries have the same values and legal system that we have in Canada.” My, pity that.
As for details, a GAC spokesman explained in a media statement, “’Since the beginning of 2023, certain states in the U.S. have passed laws banning drag shows and restricting the transgender community from access to gender affirming care and from participation in sporting events,’” related the CBC.
“‘The information is provided to enable travellers to make their own informed decisions regarding destinations,’” he continued.
But as to whether it’s “informed” or deformed, the Washington Examiner’s Brad Polumbo calls the advisory “painfully dumb,” noting that the cautions have about as much bearing on a Canadian tourist’s stay as do U.S. regulations governing the operation of a Tampa auto dealership. “Rules regulating sex segregation in school sports, for example, are totally irrelevant to a tourist,” Polumbo writes. “One does not typically go on a one-week vacation and enroll one’s child in high school girls’ swimming.”
“So, too, restrictions on access to medical gender transition treatments for minors, while certainly debatable, are not at all relevant to tourism,” the commentator continues. “One does not simply stop by a local CVS while out of town and buy some hormone pills over the counter. A transgender tourist would be prescribed his … medication and bring it along while visiting the U.S.”
“Nor does one casually swing by the surgeon’s office for a quick double mastectomy while on a beach vacation in Florida,” Polumbo adds.
In fairness, though, if you think you and your family might be overcome by a sudden urge to don dresses and put on a public drag performance, or to spontaneously gather children in a library so you can read aloud Heather Has Two Mommies, your vacation may be affected.
Moreover, enlightened Canadian authorities may have a point about how one just can’t be too vigilant, as they themselves unwittingly prove on their own website. As they write, after all, on the “United States travel advice” page:
“The traveller is also responsible for his or her own personal safety.”
“His or her”? Haven’t you, Canuck friends, heard about the myth of the sexual binary? We’ve been sagely instructed that sentient bipeds assigned human at birth can have a plenitude of pronouns, such as cir, nir, quis, and hir. Describing travelers as comprising people identified with only two pronouns is just so — so, so Ron DeSantis — the very antithesis of inclusivity. And as remedy, the sentient biped responsible for the above line should have his(!) entire past “canceled” and his(!) family disgraced, and be drawn and quartered and have his(!) remains scattered to the four corners of the Earth — just to remind the other sentient bipeds of the importance of being charitable, kind, compassionate, and loving, of course.
As for the motivation behind the travel advisory, Polumbo opines that, in part, it’s an effort at value-signaling; it’s “an attempt to show the world how much more ‘enlightened’ Canadians are than us or something,” he writes. “On another level, though, it’s part and parcel of the broader liberal worldview on LGBT matters, which is constantly making things out to be much worse than they are.”
In reality, however, this is standard with all leftist causes and is at least partially attributable to how “the Eye altering alters all,” as English poet William Blake put it in a work titled, ironically, “The Mental Traveller.” When you’re obsessed, everything is viewed through the lens of your obsession, and no amount of capitulation to it is ever enough.
Really, though, I think sexual devolutionary Canadians should heed the GAC’s warnings and not go south this winter; instead, head north to Nunavut or some other Arctic clime. Oh, with the polar bears and frozen precip there will be white privilege to tackle. But, hey, who needs Florida?
Just identify as warm as toast, dive into the water, and take a long, long swim in Baffin Bay.
