I Chaired Canada’s Human Rights Tribunal. Here’s What I Saw
16th July 2026
It is not a pretty sight.
Earlier this year, a human rights tribunal ordered a former school trustee in the Canadian province of British Columbia, Barry Neufeld, to pay a C$750,000 penalty. Tribunal officials concluded that certain statements Neufeld had made, protesting the inclusion of LGBT-related content in the school curriculum, had exhibited “hallmarks of hate.”
“Transpeople are, by definition, people ‘whose gender identity does not align with the sex assigned to them at birth,’” the tribunal declared. “If a person elects not to ‘believe’ that gender identity is separate from sex assigned at birth, then they do not ‘believe’ in transpeople. This is a form of existential denial.”
July 16th, 2026 at 13:24
It’s an interesting conundrum. We’re basically talking about reality, what is and isn’t. Now granted, I’m biased, I fall on the side that believes it’s a mental illness, so I’m not really ‘denying’ the person, aka denying the fact that they exist or do not. Yes, of course, they exist. We can both see them, talk to them, interact with them, touch them (ewwww…), but they’re undeniably ‘real’, and ‘exist’. There’s no denying that. Where the dispute actually lies, in whether they have the ability to change gender’s from the sex they were assigned at birth. I feel this is not possible, not real, cannot happen, the other side argues the opposite. Thus the party cannot be guilty of an existential denial centered around hate (i.e. the crime), I am not denying their existence. I am denying their sanity. Calling someone off their rocker has never been a punishable offense to my knowledge. That is free speech. Any competent lawyer can get this case tossed out with simple rhetoric.