Unprecedented Agony of Parental Dilemma

"As concerning as C.D.'s conduct was, however, it does not necessarily follow that such conduct equates to the kind of psychological or emotional abuse that would constitute 'family violence' under the [Family Law act]."

"This order should not restrict C.D.'s right to express his opinion in his private communications with family, close friends and close advisers, provided none of these individuals is part of or connected with the media or any public forum, and provided C.D. obtain assurances from those with whom he shares information or views that they will not share that information with others."

Supreme Court of British Columbia Judgement

Robert Hoogland is facing a jail sentence for the “crime” of trying to protect his daughter from being transitioned by the state.

Initials only are used as identifiers in this case where a father in British Columbia who objects to his child's decision that she suffers from gender dysphoria and plans her future as one that obliterates the female she was born to become the male she feels she is, has no authority over her. The father has been referred to by initials C.D., the child, A.B., and the mother, E.F. Their identities must remain anonymous in deference to the age of the child, now 14, and the need for privacy.

 

In the language of the present when pronouns and gender identification are given formal nomenclature descriptives, A.B. was 'assigned' female at birth. In other words born female with all the unmistakable physical characteristics of a female child. Yet the child has insisted on her right to decide her future in the most dramatic of ways; to receive gender transition treatments. Her mother is fully supportive of her child's decision and the forthcoming medical treatments to enable full transition.

 

The story is that at age 11, the child was certain she was male, not female. A year later the child began to transition socially, according to a court decision dated 2020, "enrolling in school under a chosen male name and using male pronouns with 'his' teachers and peers". The child's mother made appointments with a number of psychologists when the child reached 13 at a time when "persistent discomfort with his body led him to want to take steps to appear more masculine". Going beyond talking the talk to walking the walk.

 

In 2018, A.B. met with an endocrinologist whereupon a plan to proceed with hormonal treatment took shape. The father strenuously objected, appearing before the Provincial Court of British Columbia in an effort to prevent treatment to proceed, absent his consent. He succeeded in preventing the child from seeking treatment, but further applications were made before the Supreme Court of British Columbia to declare the child capable of making her/his own health decisions.

 

The ruling was brought down that the child was able to consent to medical treatment, and a defacto publication ban was issued that the names of all involved must remain anonymous.The girl-turned-boy appeared before Justice Francesca Marzari for a court order to prevent the father from speaking publicly about the medical case, while the father countered that speaking about the case was "important to society and to his rights as a parent".

In the interests of which, spurning the court's decision that he refrain from speaking publicly and revealing identities and medical details, the father did just that. Leaving the objecting father who obviously feels that his child is making a decision that will ruin her/his life, court-ordered to remain silent and accept the child's decision making, has been ordered to prison for repeated public revelations relating to the case. Again.

He has been charged with contempt of court. Again. Arrested for breaching court orders. Again. "The subsequent breach of court order allegations are being treated as aggravating circumstances", according to the B.C. Prosecution Service. The complexity of ethical and legal issues binding parents when children make such gender dysphoria choices is beyond comprehension. Yet such life-changing decisions are supported and upheld by the medical community and by assenting law in a 'woke' society.

"I had a perfectly healthy child a year ago, and that perfectly healthy child has been altered and destroyed for absolutely no good reason."   

"She can never go back to being a girl in the healthy body that she should have had. She's going to forever have a lower voice. She'll forever have to shave because of facial hair. She won't be able to have children…"   

"I had decided at that point: 'I am not going to respect the ruling.' A girl is a girl, that girl is my daughter."   

"I mean, the reason I do it, or did it, is because I am taking the best interests of my child at heart."