Danielle Smith’s Strange Thoughts on ‘Parental Rights’ | The Tyee
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Inside the UCP’s take on the family.

This is a bit of a tongue-in-cheek take, but, honestly, I can’t see how else to engage more deeply with these policy rationales.

  • zaphod@lemmy.caEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Code for, "my children are my property to do with as I see fit. "

    Well, unless you decide you want to let them access gender affirming care, in which case you as a parent have no rights at all.

    This was never about parental rights. It’s about using the trans community in the same way the right used the gay community in the 70s and 80s: as a moral boogieman they can use to gain power.