By Mia Hughes, March 12, 2026Last month, the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal handed down an extraordinary decision, ordering former Chilliwack school board trustee Barry Neufeld to pay $750,000 for publicly criticizing gender-identity ideology and its inclusion in schools. Transpeople are, by definition, people ‘whose gender identity does not align with the sex assigned to them at birth,’ ” states the ruling. In truth, Canada approached the gender debate backwards, enshrining the highly disputed, unscientific concept of gender identity into law without analysis or scrutiny. Even with human rights tribunals acting like authoritarian zealots, the debate is on and its momentum is unstoppable. Mia Hughes specializes in researching pediatric gender medicine, psychiatric epidemics, social contagion and the intersection of trans rights and women’s rights.

Source: National Post March 12, 2026 19:06 UTC