Tribunal Ruling out of British Columbia, Canada
This is not fiction. It is not a joke or a meme. It is Canada:
A recent Tribunal ruling out of British Columbia, Canada, ordered Barry Neufeld (a school-board trustee from 2017–2022), to pay $750,000 in damages for injury to dignity, feelings, and self-respect to the Chilliwack Teachers’ Association and a class of its LGBTQ-identifying members for statements he made criticizing
"Transgender" ideology / transgenderism.
This is what the Tribunal actually wrote.
You will not believe your eyes.
"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"
"A person does not need to believe in Christianity to accept that another person is Christian. However, to accept that a person is transgender, one must accept that their gender identity is different than their sex assigned at birth."
"People can and do decide that they were assigned the incorrect gender at birth."
"Calling transness “gender ideology” allows anti-trans activists to hide behind a veneer of reasonableness. It allows them to say, as Mr. Neufeld did in his statements as well as at the hearing of this complaint, that they are not attacking human beings. They are simply opposing a set of ideas. But behind this insidious veneer is the proposition that transness is not real. Such phrasing can make it easier to ignore that trans people are human beings. Referring to “gender ideology” or “transgenderism” – “-ism” denoting a belief or ideology such as capitalism or communism – pushes the idea that trans people have an agenda rather than being just another demographic group. As this decision illustrates, such terms can create the conditions for discrimination and hatred to flourish."
Unreal.
But reality in Canada.
Link to ruling: https://www.bchrt.bc.ca/law-library/decisions/recent/2026-bchrt-49/