Bill 42 would establish a government committee filled with a majority of transgenders who are tasked with pushing for more transgender surgeries, counseling, and grooming in our provincial healthcare system. Ontario taxpayers will foot the bill for this radical agenda while gender-confused adults and children suffer the consequences.

Bill 42 would further enshrine the lie of “gender theory” (i.e. “choose-your-own-gender”) into Ontario's laws and institutions.

Bill 42 is an NDP-sponsored Bill that is identical to the former Bill 17, whose passage was interrupted by the June provincial election.

Proponents of Bill 42 claim it is absolutely essential to ensuring more sex-change treatments of more types are performed more quickly on more gender-confused individuals in Ontario. According to Suze Morrison, NDP MPP for Toronto Centre, “OHIP today currently only covers two types of gender-confirming [sic] surgery: genital and chest... But we know there are many additional procedures that are critical to affirming how people think and feel about their own gender, including, but not limited to, facial feminization surgery, chest contouring, electrolysis. All of these procedures and treatments are not covered by OHIP, forcing people to pay out of pocket for what is essential health care.” (Hansard, Oct. 19, 2021).

Let’s be clear: When Ms. Morrison speaks of genital and chest surgeries, facial feminization surgery, and chest contouring, she is talking about butchering healthy body parts just because a person “feels” gender-confused. This is unconscionable – and it should never be paid for with tax dollars.

Making sex-change procedures easier and more accessible in Ontario will only cause more harm than good – especially among our children. Research shows that over 84% of gender dysphoric youth come to accept their biological sex upon entering adolescence or adulthood. This “transgender desistence” is a normal, expected, and desired outcome, avoiding all the harms associated with sex-change surgeries and artificial hormone therapies.

However, under Bill 42, there is absolutely no room for desistence. The committee formed under Bill 42 will be legislated to be in lock-step with the radical LGBT lobby and its ideological demands. Members must promote only “gender-affirming” care, which is a code word for chemical and surgical sex-change treatments.

For the LGBT lobby, “gender-affirming” never means body-affirming. It always means delusion-affirming.

According to Bill 42, “The Gender Affirming Health Care Advisory Committee shall inquire into the following matters... 1. How to enhance coverage for and access to gender affirming health care for transgender, two-spirit, non-binary, intersex and gender diverse people in Ontario. 2. How to enhance coverage for and access to gender affirming and transition related prerequisites and procedures, including primary and secondary gender affirming surgeries and non-surgical transition related procedures... 6. How to expand insurance coverage for gender affirming treatments and transition related procedures not currently covered under the Health Insurance Act, including affirming facial feminization surgery, chest contouring and electrolysis... 8. How to define gender affirming health care procedures as life-saving procedures.”

This is not an objective, unbiased committee charged with determining medical “best practices”. This is a highly biased and politicized committee charged with coming to predetermined conclusions to suit the LGBT lobby.

It is vital that this NDP private members' Bill 42 be voted down. The Doug Ford government must not expand or enhance sex-change services in Ontario. They must certainly never declare them “life-saving”. They are anything but. Are there not more pressing issues in our faltering healthcare system?