VICTORIA—A bill calling for parental consent for pronoun change at schools and restrictions on gender transition procedures for minors was narrowly defeated before first reading at the B.C. legislature.
The Protecting Minors From Gender Transition Act private member’s bill was tabled by OneBC MLA for Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream Tara Armstrong Oct. 8, but was voted down before first reading 48-40, with blanket opposition from the governing NDP. OneBC MLAs and B.C. Conservatives voted in favour of the bill.
“I stand before you today not only as a member at this legislature but as a mother. British Columbia is sleepwalking into the greatest medical scandal in modern history, and it’s our kids who are at risk,” Armstrong said in introducing the bill. “In B.C. today, doctors are causing irreversible harm to children with puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries.”…