A Canadian court is threatening a father with arrest if he calls his transgender teen by the child’s birth name, uses the wrong pronoun, or attempts to dissuade the teen from hormone treatments.
It is the latest chapter in a transgender legal case involving a father who opposes hormone injections for his biological daughter and a mother and medical community who support them.
The 14-year-old biological girl wants to become a boy. The father, known in court documents under the pseudonym “Clark,” believes his child may regret the treatments when reaching adulthood, as sometimes happens. His child is referenced as “Max” or “Maxine” in court documents, depending on the gender.
The order by British Columbia Justice Francesca V. Marzari forbids Clark from “attempting to persuade” Maxine “to abandon treatment for gender dysphoria.” It further orders him not to use Maxine’s “birth name” or refer to Maxine “as a girl or with female pronouns.” The order also prevents Clark from speaking to the media about the case.
Violating the order, Marzari wrote, can result in immediate arrest. Marzari is a member of the British Columbus Supreme Court, an intermediate court. The highest provincial court is the Court of Appeals.
“Disobeying this order is a criminal offence,” the order states.
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