Do you remember how angry the corporate news media was with Governor Ron DeSantis when he signed a Parental Rights bill into law? DeSantis didn’t want LGBY activists imposing their views on children in Florida schools. The corporate news media were MAD! They mocked the bill as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. But the bill didn’t say that. It actually just banned grooming children.

So, there was a big legal battle over it, and DeSantis won.

This was reported by The Blaze:

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) ratified House Bill 1557 in March 2022, making the Parental Rights in Education Act the law of the land despite sustained opposition and mischaracterizations by woke corporations, the liberal media, and radical leftists in the Biden administration.

After the bill’s passage, critics’ hopes centered on a legal challenge brought against Florida by a band of LGBT activists keen on nullifying the law. The challengers’ desperate two-year effort to scale back parental rights and ensure that sexualizing propaganda could thrive in the classroom did not ultimately have the impact they likely hoped for.

The DeSantis administration and the LGBT challengers filed a settlement Monday, bringing the legal battle to an end.

[…]”We fought hard to ensure this law couldn’t be maligned in court, as it was in the public arena by the media and large corporate actors,” stated Ryan Newman, general counsel for the DeSantis administration. “We are victorious, and Florida’s classrooms will remain a safe place under the Parental Rights in Education Act.”

Do you know what’s better than people who just talk about things that they would like to do? People who do the things that they would like to do. And even better: when people who do things fight and win against people who want to destroy their good work.

According to the Governor’s official web site, the law:

• Prohibits classroom instruction about sexual orientation or gender identity in K–3 classrooms, and after 3rd grade, these conversations need to be age-appropriate.
• Ensures that at the beginning of every school year, parents will be notified about healthcare services offered at the school, with the right to decline any service offered.
• Ensures that whenever a questionnaire or health screening is given to K–3 students, parents receive it first and provide permission for the school to administer the questionnaire or health screening to their child.

That’s the law of the land in Florida, now.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could have a president who stands up for conservatives, passes intelligent laws, defends those laws from the secular left in court, and then WINS. Of course it would.

Related posts on DeSantis’ achievements

• DeSantis beats Disney’s lawsuit, while Trump loses defamation lawsuit
• DeSantis wins again: Florida bans DEI programs at public colleges
• Promise to purge the FBI, and all other government agencies who discriminate against conservatives
• All he does is win: DeSantis cuts health care costs by importing Canadian drugs
• The DeSantis plan: pay teachers well, and put teacher unions out of business
• fires district attorneys who were elected with help from George Soros
• Mamas for DeSantis: Casey DeSantis champions parent’s rights at the national level
• high tourism and low unemployment
• six-week abortion ban
• no sex-reassignment surgeries on kids
• no pronouns required in Florida schools
• no kids at drag queen shows
• pre-game prayer is allowed
• universal school choice
• making collection of union dues optional for teachers
• flying illegal immigrants to Massachusetts
• elect conservatives to school boards
• teach students about the historical record of communism
• ban grooming of young children
• protect wildlife
• banning biological males from women’s sports
• punishing Big Tech social media companies for censoring conservatives

I have been following the progress of the transgender agenda in different countries. Some left-wing countries that started out strongly in favor of transing children are now reversing course. I wrote before about how this was happening in France, Finland and Sweden. The UK National Health Service even lost a lawsuit to former patients who regretted transitioning as children.

Well, today we have fresh good news about the UK.

Here’s the story from GB News:

Children will no longer be prescribed controversial puberty blockers – medicines used to postpone puberty in minors – at gender identity clinics, NHS England has confirmed.

The government said it welcomed the “landmark decision”, adding it would help ensure care is based on evidence and is in the “best interests of the child”.

Puberty blockers, which pause the physical changes of puberty such as breast development or facial hair, will now only be available to children as part of clinical research trials.

The move follows a public consultation and an interim policy on the issue, which stems from a 2020 NHS England review of gender identity services for under-18s.

The review “pointed to a lack of long-term evidence and data collection on what happens to children and young people who are prescribed medication.”

The UK is only the latest country to get more cautious as they learn more about how these things really work.

The New York Post reported on Sweden last month:

 In February, Sweden — a progressive country previously on the cutting edge of providing medical services to transgender youth — also reversed course. The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare updated its guidelines for treating trans youth, scaling back the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, saying there hasn’t been enough research on their efficacy or side effects.

The Epoch Times reported about France and Finland  in May 2022:

France’s National Academy of Medicine posted in March this year (pdf) that “great medical caution must be taken in children and adolescents, given the vulnerability, particularly psychological, of this population and the many undesirable effects and even serious complications that can be caused by some of the therapies available.”

[…]Finland also announced in 2020 a policy shift for gender dysphoria treatment, with the Finnish Health Authority issuing new guidelines backing psychotherapy rather than puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for children.

I think that sometimes, people in America see these issues through the lens of the corporate news media. We think that conservatives are losing everywhere, and that the secular left has all the momentum. But, if you look at some of the countries that are even further to the left, you realize that the pendulum is already winging back to the right.

Yesterday, I blogged about how Canada’s  secular left government is seeing record unpopularity. Even the young people are turning against them, because they can’t afford homes or get timely health care. Even feminism has run into a brick wall, as young women find that by discriminating against men in schools and workplaces, they have actually cut off the supply of men who can protect and provide. Many single mothers who bought into the lies of feminism are watching the slow-motion destruction of their kids who are being raised fatherless.

I think there are some dark times ahead, but already we are seeing signs of a recovery. So keep up your spirits.

I keep warning Americans never to visit Canada, at least while the secular left Liberal Party is in control. Visiting Canada is like visiting a police state. As soon as you enter the country, anything you say can and will be used against you in a kangaroo court. If you criticize the government, or the government’s favored groups, then you are guilty. They are going to make you pay.

Let’s take a look at this article from True North:

In a move aimed at curbing the spread of what it terms “online hate,” the Liberal government of Canada has revealed its plan, including hefty fines for online speech and stringent punishment including up to life imprisonment for hate crimes.

The centrepiece of this initiative is the proposed Online Harms Act, details of which were unveiled during a technical briefing released to reporters on Monday.

[…]The bill will include amendments to the Criminal Code aimed at addressing hate crimes more effectively.

[…]These amendments include the introduction of a standalone hate crime offence applicable across all criminal offences, with penalties extending up to life imprisonment.

Maximum punishments for existing hate propaganda offences are also set to be increased substantially.

[…]Also, the bill would add a definition of “hatred” based on the past decision of the Supreme Court of Canada to the Criminal Code.

The text of the bill defines “content that foments hatred” as any content “content that expresses detestation or vilification of an individual or group of individuals on the basis of a prohibited ground of discrimination, within the meaning of the Canadian Human Rights Act, and that, given the context in which it is communicated, is likely to foment detestation or vilification of an individual or group of individuals on the basis of such a prohibited ground.‍”

“For greater certainty and for the purposes of the definition content that foments hatred, content does not express detestation or vilification solely because it expresses disdain or dislike or it discredits, humiliates, hurts or offends,” adds the government.

Keep in mind that in Canada, people who disagree with policies favored by the Liberal party are routinely prosecuted by the state. People get prosecuted for posting Bible verses in Canada, because they offend people.

Your fellow citizens can report you to the government for “hate speech”:

Anybody will also be able to file complaints against others for “posting hate speech online” that is discriminatory against protected categories such as gender, race, disability and others.

Amendments to the Canadian Human Rights Act will let anybody file complaints against persons posting so-called hate speech with the Canadian Human Rights Commission. If found guilty, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal can order those found to violate the government’s definition of hatred with fines up to $70,000 and takedown orders for content.

According to the text of the bill, the Tribunal has the power to order payments of up to $20,000 for victims of so-called online hate, as well as an order to pay the government $50,000 “if the member panel considers it appropriate.”

You may recall, if you follow Canadian law, that the Human Rights Commissions are kangaroo courts that are only ever used to punish Christians and conservatives. They are never used against the Liberal Party or groups that support the Liberal Party. Human Rights Commissions are like social media “fact checkers”. On paper, they’re unbiased. In practice, they only censor speech critical of the regime, and the regime’s supporters. Famous Canadians like Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn have been dragged in front of these Human Rights Commissions. And citizens almost never win their cases. These are kangaroo courts.

You don’t have to speak words directly to a person in order to be guilty of hate speech. Your speech online can be reported as “hate speech”:

“It is a discriminatory practice to communicate or cause to be communicated hate speech by means of the Internet or any other means of telecommunication in a context in which the hate speech is likely to foment detestation or vilification of an individual or group of individuals based on a prohibited ground of discrimination,” Bill C-63’s text reads.

You may never know the identity of your accuser. And if you do know, then you cannot name them publicly:

The Tribunal will also have powers to hide the identity of those who bring complaints against anybody whom they deem to have posted online hate speech. Additionally, it can compel those who face complaints to not reveal the identity of those involved upon discovery.

It goes without saying that if you cannot expose them publicly, then you have no recourse to counter them.

The government will be monitoring speech online:

The government plans to establish a new organization. This body, comprising the Digital Safety Commission, the Digital Safety Ombudsperson, and the Digital Safety Office, will work to ensure compliance with regulations and protect users from online harm.

Naturally, the Conservative Party leader opposes the bill:

Prior to the bill’s unveiling, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre said he would oppose the law, accusing the government of using the issue to legislate censorship and infringe Canadians’ free speech.

“We will oppose Justin Trudeau’s latest attack on freedom of expression,” Poilievre responded to a question from True North’s Andrew Lawton last week.

“What does Justin Trudeau mean when he says the worst hate speech? He means speech he hates.”

Will there ever be another election in Canada? It’s hard to say. Trudeau may not allow another election, especially when he is losing in the polls:

If you’re in Canada right now, and you have the education and/or skills to get out, then get out. Yes, the Conservatives are leading in the polls. But until they win, that country is not safe.

Let’s hear from some Canadians, courtesy of Rebel News:

Americans – you must never travel to this country. The bill doesn’t just undermine freedom of speech, it destroys it. It would be like going to North Korea or Iran. They freeze the bank accounts of peaceful protestors, while letting Hamas supporters run wild in their streets. It is not a free country.