MassResistance interviews Canadian Member of Parliament about two extreme bills that would oppress pro-family Christians across the country.
A frightening insight into what is happening in Canada – and what could be coming to the rest of the world.
September 1, 2021
VIDEO: MassResistance interviews Canadian Member of Parliament
Derek Sloan is a Canadian Member of Parliament representing a district in the province of Ontario in the House of Commons. He is greatly admired across the country for being a strong pro-family conservative.
He was elected in 2019 as a member of the Conservative Party (which unfortunately is not really conservative). He recently became an Independent because his principled pro-family stands on the issues turned the Conservative Party leadership against him and they concocted a reason to force him out!
MP Sloan told us that he appreciates the work that MassResistance did to expose what was happening to Rob Hoogland. He was pleased to speak with us about two horrendous bills that were introduced in the House of Commons which have shocked Canadians across the country:
Bill C-6 would effectively ban so-called “anti-LGBT conversion therapy” in all forms, including discussions by pastors and ministers and even admonitions by parents to their children. It is possibly the broadest such bans in the world that would cover an entire nation. Violations of the law would carry outrageous punishments, including fines and prison terms of up to five years. The legislation would appear to contradict Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, i.e., their national constitution.
Bill C-36 is an expansive and tyrannical “hate crimes” bill that would make almost any ambiguous online criticism of the LGBT movement or other anti-family cause a federal crime carrying severe punishments. It even allows punishment of people who have a “potential” to post hate speech online. In addition, the law could be applied retroactively.
MP Sloan discussed how these two bills got such momentum and the manipulative forces behind them. He also gave us a fascinating insider’s view of the political climate in the Canadian Parliament and in Canada in general regarding the “culture war.” He was interviewed by Arthur Schaper, our National Organization Director.
In particular, MP Sloan walked us through how the LGBT movement used a strategy of lies and fear tactics to push Bill C-6 forward through Parliament. This is especially upsetting because the enormous influx of children in Canada now declaring themselves to be “transgender” or “gay” cries out for therapy that could be lifesaving for them, or at least save them from disfiguring surgery or medical procedures that would render them sterile. That bill is basically child abuse.
At the time the interview took place (July 16), Bill C-6 had easily passed the House of Commons and was headed to the Senate where it would also easily pass. Bill C-36 was about to be voted on in the House of Commons. However, on August 15, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called for a federal election to take place on Sept. 20, 2021. This effectively killed all the bills currently in Parliament. However, both of these bills will surely be brought back in the next session, since they represent a major political goal of the LGBT movement in Canada.
The deterioration of rational government in Canada today – where the world may be headed
As MP Sloan describes, these bills represent the larger direction that the political establishment in Canada is taking the country. Even though most Canadians are privately not that extreme, they tend to go along with it because the special interests (such as the LGBT movement) have become extremely powerful and intimidating, and because people tend to just react rather than think things through. This situation is very dangerous for any society.
Is this where the US and other countries are headed? The terrible government oppression of people like Rob Hoogland and Bill Whatcott who have stood up to this lunatic movement, may be providing a glimpse of the future.
Please help us continue to do our uncompromising work!
Rob Hoogland reaches plea agreement with B.C. Attorney General in “criminal contempt of court” case. Will be freed from jail on April 13!
He will plead guilty and accept 18 months probation – must remain silent on this issue.
A big win! Clearly, the huge public outcry had an effect.
April 8, 2021
Activists across Canada – in British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario – were prepared to post thousands of these stickers in public areas to keep Rob’s fight alive while he was in jail.
The March 16 jailing of British Columbia father Rob Hoogland for breaking a “gag order” sent shock waves across North America. The government had tried to prevent him from publicly opposing the gruesome “sex-change” procedures on his daughter. There was considerable outrage and derision directed at the judge and the prosecutor reported in a wide range of media.
As MassResistance reported, Justice Michael Tammen was extremely hostile toward Hoogland and his lawyer, Carey Linde. at Hoogland’s March 16-19 bail hearing.
Tammen not only angrily ordered Hoogland to remain in jail without bail while awaiting his April 13-16 trial for criminally breaking the gag order. But Tammen also made it clear that he already considered Hoogland guilty and would likely give him a stiff prison sentence (up to five years).
But it appears that the widespread revulsion against this bizarre and abhorrent legal action finally took effect. On Thursday morning, April 8, Attorney Linde announced in a press release that the Crown (i.e., the District Attorney) had agreed to a plea bargain:
CD [i.e., Rob Hoogland] will admit to willfully breaching certain orders of the Supreme Court. He will accept 18 months probation and one month for time spent in custody.
These terms are subject to the discretion of the judge. If they are granted, CD should be released from custody later on that day.
This is a very positive development! Rob did break the gag order. But he will not be in jail, fined, or otherwise punished. His 18-month probation means that he cannot break the gag order again during that time. The important thing at this point is that Rob has said everything he needs to say – and we have a great deal of that safely posted on MassResistance.
As we reported, during Justice Tammen’s closing remarks on March 19, he was extremely irate that MassResistance had posted court papers, hospital communications, and other documents that proved Hoogland’s claims about what was being done to his daughter – and the government was trying to hide. We also posted video interviews with Rob where he described in detail what had happened. Since our website is outside of the jurisdiction of the Canadian courts, Judge Tammen had threatened that unless we took all that material down, he would take retribution on Rob and give him a harsher sentence.
A number of Canadian activists pleaded with us to take that material down and placate the judge. But we knew that would be a terrible move. By our leaving it all up, the judge got the message that this case would only continue to erupt as long as he kept Rob incarcerated.
And there was more coming! This weekend we had planned to begin a large “Free Rob Hoogland” push. Activists in British Columbia, Ontario, and Alberta were ready to put up stickers (see photo above) in key downtown areas and do mass leafletting. Trust us – there was no problem finding people to participate! Rather than keep quiet, there would be more noise! (We’ve called that off with this new announcement.)
But our reports on the Hoogland case had continued to reverberate around the world. Recently it was covered on a Chinese website. And yesterday we were contacted by a Russian news agency about it. This scandal is definitely not going to fade away. But by keeping Rob in jail, it would have gotten much worse for the B.C. courts and government.
A lot of people are upset, and that won’t likely change! As Linde’s press release mentions:
At the bail hearing last month a non-Canadian resident attending by phone illegally recorded the entire hearing and posted it on a Canadian website. This fact has been brought to the attention of our judge.
We’re not aware who that was. (It wasn’t MassResistance, although we did attend the hearing via phone.) Apparently it has been taken down.
At the April 13 court date, one point of disagreement still remains. Linde wants his client to be allowed to have no criminal record if he successfully obeys the terms of the probation. The Crown is against that. The judge will have to decide. We’re not holding our breath on that one.
We’re thrilled that Rob Hoogland will be free. His story will not die! The hideous transgender attack on vulnerable children will continue to be confronted.
Please help us continue to do our uncompromising work!
The bail hearing from hell: Canadian judge jails father for breaking “gag order” on gov’t supported “sex-change” procedures on his teenage daughter.
Father faces five years in prison after trial next month.
Aggressive, punitive prosecution and hostile, biased judge – clearly meant to send a message to others.
Judge threatens MassResistance after rant against the father!
March 25, 2021
Outside the courthouse just before the hearing, Rob Hoogland ponders his fate as his supporters gather near the doors.
The dark face of an oppressive government that enforces insane, unnatural, and destructive ideas on innocent people was on display last week in Vancouver, British Columbia. Someday people will look back on all of this in disbelief. But for now, Americans and others around the world need to take notice: What’s happening in Canada now will likely be coming to your doorstep. Be prepared to speak out and oppose it!
Background – a parent’s nightmare
As we described in our March 13 report, Rob Hoogland of Surrey, British Columbia is living a horror story. The government has ruled that his 15-year-old daughter, who believes she is “really” a boy (thanks to school propaganda), must be given dangerous and experimental medical procedures to “change” her sex to male – despite her terrified father’s objections.
These treatments include puberty-blockers, cross-sex hormones, surgical procedures will likely follow. This will cause sterility and other horrible and irreversible side effects, such as unhealthy bone growth and premature aging. In fact, what the girl really needs is psychological help.
This did not happen in a vacuum. The Canadian LGBT movement funded over two dozen lawyers to represent the daughter against her father. With their help, in 2019 the Court ruled that this young girl is “mature” enough to overrule her father’s wishes, and that these treatments are in her best interest.
Moreover, the government insists that everything about this case must be kept secret to “protect” the daughter (whom they state is a boy). Thus, the Court has ordered that neither Rob (nor anyone else) may publicly relate any details about what is happening to his daughter, or reveal the daughter’s name, the names of the hideous “gender clinic” doctors who are experimenting on her, or even Rob’s own name!
But Rob has refused to be cowed into silence by this totalitarian gag order. He believes that the world needs to know the truth about what is happening. He has given interviews to MassResistance and other conservative media, and has named the doctors and others who are participating in this.
Rob charged with gag order violations, trial set for April 2021
Last November, the Attorney General of British Columbia formally charged Rob with multiple “criminal” violations of the gag order (known as a “conduct order”). A four-day trial has been set beginning April 12, 2021.
Attorney General cites further violation, seeks immediate jail for Rob
On March 4, the Attorney General filed a further charge because Rob had set up a GoGetFunding page that included his name and other banned information. This time the government issued an immediate warrant for Rob’s arrest, ostensibly to keep him from committing more violations before his April trial.
A bail hearing before Justice Michael Tammen was set for March 16. On that day, Rob was scheduled to turn himself in, which he did.INCREDIBLE VIDEO:Rob Hoogland speaks before going to court – and jail. Great interview by Canadian pro-family journalist Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson. (6 min 26 sec)
The hearing from hell – the nightmare continues for this father
The hearing commenced on March 16 and was continued on March 19. This was clearly anything but a typical bail hearing for a seemingly minor, non-violent infraction.Rob (right) chats with a few of his friends who came to support him, before walking in.Some local conservative press was also there.
It was very clear that the Court sought to make a powerful statement to the public.
For example, at the conclusion of the hearing, the judge announced that Rob was denied bail and must stay in jail pending his trial in April – for violating his conduct order (gag order). To put things in perspective, Justice Tammen presided over a hearing two years ago in which he released a convicted murderer pending review of his criminal murder conviction.
Furthermore, it is unheard of for the B.C. Attorney General’s office to be prosecuting a conduct order. It would be like the New York State Attorney General prosecuting a misdemeanor. But the government clearly wanted to put its full punitive force on Rob Hoogland – and send a strong message to anyone else who would stand up to the transgender movement that is entrapping so many children.
It was eerie how coldly businesslike the proceeding was, focused only on following laws, procedure, and orders. Yet at its core was unimaginable child abuse and violation of a parent’s rights. The prosecutor and judge both refused to acknowledge those underlying issues, or why this case has created shock and horror internationally. They both seemed oblivious to their role in enforcing an order that would destroy a teenage girl’s body and life, and that they were violating the bond between parent and child.
But as every American knows, existing law and procedure are easily ignored when a Court is deciding a radical issue like abortion or “gay marriage.”Justice Michael Tammen showed no mercyAttorney Carey Linde, Rob’s lawyer.
And throughout the hearing, Judge Tammen’s demeanor was openly hostile toward Rob and his attorney. He seemed to take on the role of prosecutor at times. He often interrupted Rob’s lawyer to attempt to “correct” his arguments. The prosecutor and the judge both referred to the girl as “he”. Rob’s attorney refused to do that.
The Attorney General’s office makes its case against Rob
The Attorney General’s prosecutor, Daniel Pruim, began by reciting the litany of Rob’s violations over the years. Then he focused on the “GoGetFunding” page, which comprised the specific reason for the arrest warrant. He went point by point over the text and videos on that page, citing dozens of things that Rob wrote and said that are considered “violations.” He compared them to the various “conduct orders” issued against Rob.
He went on to say that Rob’s “son” (i.e., daughter) is suicidal, that these “gender” treatments are saving the child’s life, and implied that Rob’s discussing them makes the suicide more likely.
The purpose was to portray Rob as a deliberate repeat “criminal” against the government who flouts laws and is not concerned for the well-being of his child. And for the “gravity” of these offenses, he must be imprisoned.
Both the prosecutor and the judge pointedly voiced their outrage at one particular statement on the GoGetFunding page. Rob wrote, “I am fighting the far left based on a civil disobedience defense!” The judge remarked, “I’m the left? I’m the far left?!”
The irony should not be lost on anyone. This whole legal and political persecution is from the far left – from the LGBT lobby that has been harassing Rob Hoogland and anyone else who speaks out against their “gender” ideology.
Rob Hoogland’s attorney makes a passionate case
Carey Linde, Rob’s attorney, made a very passionate and (we think) compelling case in Rob’s defense. He covered several points:
There is no evidence of any harm to anyone from Rob allegedly breaching the gag order. The identities of Rob and the two doctors are widely known. The identity of his daughter is known by her schoolmates, neighbors, the community, and the media. There is not now and never has been evidence of problems for any of them from unknown persons. As Mr. Linde said, “So what is the big secret? The genie is out of the bottle. It can’t be put back in with any number of arrest warrants.”
The courts here are being manipulated to hide these unethical doctors from public scrutiny. But these same doctors proudly advertise their skills on social media, and sell books about what they do. As Mr. Linde said,
“The psychologist and endocrinologist are hiding behind court orders while they move an increasing number of emotionally wounded children to a lifetime addiction to expensive gender-altering hormones. These men are abusing the courts for their personal gain. The court cannot sanction this.”
Rob’s “crime” is warning parents of young girls how the government permits schools to surreptitiously convince girls they can be boys. And how the state allows pediatric endocrinologists to give gender-altering hormones to children without the parent’s knowledge or consent.
An obvious question: Why has the Attorney General chosen to escalate this case against a father in such a draconian fashion? It is a punitive and intimidating effort to punish him for speaking his conscience. Will the state have to keep Rob incommunicado behind bars? For how long? “Does the AG think that Rob’s conscience will shrivel up like the testosterone poisoned eggs in his now sterile 15-year-old child?” Carey asked.
Or more to the point: Why isn’t the Attorney General leading the charge to protect young girls with rapid-onset gender dysphoria from the psychologists and doctors experimenting with the girls’ growing bodies and fragile minds without parental knowledge or consent?
The Attorney General is on the wrong side of history here when it comes to denying guardianship rights to parents. How would he or any of us in this room feel if what happened to Rob were to happen to us?
Regarding the “suicide” threat, this entire case is based on a fiction. It’s been well documented that Rob’s daughter was 12 years old when she attempted “suicide” by spraying the contents of a pressurized can in her mouth. She did this because she had a crush on a male gym teacher, and she was disciplined by the school for stalking him. She admitted this at the hospital, which was written in their report. But the LGBT lawyers have been purposefully dishonest about this in their arguments, and the Court refuses to correct it.
Finally, Mr. Linde brought up the recent English case of Bell v Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust and others, by the English High Court in London Dec 1, 2020. This concerned a young woman who had gone through “transition” to become a man. She sued because she had been given bad information about it as a teenager. The judgment held there was no medical evidence or statistical basis for the medical claims by the transgender movement – that it is pseudo-science at best. There is no evidence that supports it other than someone saying, “I have a feeling …”
Mr. Linde’s arguments were certainly convincing to us and probably any normal member of the public.
The Judge speaks
One expects a judge to at least give the appearance of being impartial. But there was none of that here. Justice Tammen was openly very harsh toward Attorney Linde, and insisted that Rob’s guilt was undeniable. He told Mr. Linde that the arguments he made had no bearing on this hearing. He stated that Rob had repeatedly violated the conduct orders, particularly in regard to “health care professionals.” He said that Mr. Linde’s arguments are simply a “collateral attack” on the conduct orders and is no defense at all. The only thing that matters is if Rob violated them, nothing else.
Justice Tammen reiterated very sternly that the basis for that gag order was “to protect the psychological well-being” of Rob’s child. That’s how it stands.
He insisted that Rob’s previous attorneys in this case did not file papers to ask to rescind the orders, the time for it has long since passed, and he was not going to deal with any of that here. And even using his own name publicly makes it clear who the daughter is, he said. But Rob also has posted some a photo of him and his daughter in elementary school, which is apparently a grave violation.
For quite a while the judge basically shouted at Mr. Linde about Rob’s continual violation of the orders, and stated that he will likely continue defying the orders.
Finally, Mr. Linde said to the judge “At some point we have to start dealing with [medical] facts.”
But that was ignored and the judge reiterated that Rob had broken the conduct orders, and that Rob’s disagreement with the correctness of transgender treatments were simply “his opinions.”
In the end, the judge was adamant that Rob must be kept in jail – without bail – until the “criminal contempt” trial, which they decided will commence on April 12 at 2:00 pm.
The judge’s dark attack on MassResistance
On March 19, after Justice Tammen finished announcing his reasons for denying bail, he proceeded to attack MassResistance (avoiding using our name, of course). It gives an insight into his chilling and totalitarian thinking on this whole matter:
[Note that in keeping with the gag order, the judge refuses to use the actual names of Rob and his daughter. He refers to Rob’s daughter as “A.B.” and to Rob as “C.D.”]
I wish to add this by way of an addendum. After I completed [writing my statement], the Counsel for the Crown [Attorney General] brought to my attention additional information concerning ongoing breeches of the publication ban. I have not considered that evidence in reaching my decision, but I will make some comment on it now.
The body of evidence includes a lengthy interview clip that C.D. [Rob Hoogland] gave to an organization that describes itself as a “pro-family activist organization” [i.e., MassResistance]. That entity maintains a website on which it publishes. Although the organization is clearly based in the United States, and thus beyond the territorial jurisdiction of this court, through its website it publishes on the World Wide Web. Some of the content is a flagrant breech of the publication ban orders in this case. Obviously, that content is available within British Columbia and has the potential to cause great harm to A.B. [Rob’s daughter].
The interview given by C.D. provides the strongest evidence of his criminal intent. Through his own mouth, C.D. announces his clear intention to flout court orders and attempt to get his message out before his bail hearing. Thus, rather than take the opportunity he was given by the delay [from March 3 to March 16] of the execution of the warrant and comply with the court orders, C.D. in fact escalated his offending behavior.
The content which is most alarming is contained within the attachment which is posted below the interview with C.D. All of those attachments are documents which could only have been provided to the website host by C.D. or his counsel. The documents include the Crown disclosure for his criminal trial and the press release authored by C.D.’s counsel, Mr. Linde. Two documents relate to A.B. [Rob’s daughter] and his [her] medical treatments. They both contain intensely private information about A.B. One of those documents contains information that on its face is an extremely egregious breech of both A.B.’s fundamental right to privacy and the publication ban.
I alert C.D. now that he must make every effort to have the offending content removed from that website. If at some point I must sentence C.D. for criminal contempt, and that content remains, the range of sentence might be very different than the one I referenced in my recent judicial internment release.
It’s interesting that Justice Tammen took the time to threaten MassResistance regarding what we’ve posted, since Rob is clearly unable to contact us (or anyone) while in jail. But more important: Tammen is being dishonest. Those documents that we posted are in no way harmful to Rob’s daughter. (The harm to her is coming from her “medical” team.) They are quite harmful to the Canadian Government’s absurd case against Rob Hoogland.
These documents include the gender clinic’s bizarre “Informed Consent Form” that admits that their procedures are dangerous and experimental, the Vancouver Police Report, and the hospital’s memorandum to Rob where they state that his 15-year-old daughter is “mature” enough to consent to their procedures. The others are basically public documents.
Will Tammen actually lengthen Rob’s prison time, as he outrageously threatened, unless MassResistance “removes the offending content” from our website – something Rob has no control over? We are contacting Rob’s attorney to discuss that. (Someone has already modified the GoGetFunding page.)
Justice Tammen went on to say that people should not believe what they read on “social media” about the case. He said that the “correct” facts about the case are in the rulings by the judges in this case. Those rulings, the judge reminded everyone, have decided that the child has been declared “a mature 15-year-old” and that her father has no right to interfere with anything, or even publicly discuss it.
All of this is like some nightmare court scene out of Kafka or Solzhenitsyn. Judges like Tammen are eradicating humane standards from our institutions. They are men without souls holding the power to inflict trans-human experiments on children. It’s simply madness.
Please help us continue to do our uncompromising work!
Canadian father facing prison for not cooperating with teenage daughter’s “transition” to male by school and “gender clinic.” Is this OUR future?
Canadian government now ordering parents to accept child’s decision to get sex-change procedures.
Arrest warrant to be served on father this Tuesday for “illegally” discussing details of his daughter’s ordeal. Trial coming up in next month. Faces 5 years in prison.
See chilling video (below) of MassResistance interview with father.
March 13, 2021
Rob Hoogland in his apartment preparing for an undetermined jail incarceration. He took some time to tell us his thoughts.
Few of us understand how truly evil and tyrannical public officials can become in their efforts to appease the LGBT movement’s unbridled obsession with pushing their agenda on children. Unfortunately, most people don’t contemplate that previously unimaginable excesses by the state (as writers like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn warned us) are never too far away.
The government of Canada has decided that if a parent does not cooperate with his minor child’s decision to have a sex-change operation, he will face criminal punishment – including prison time.
As we reported back in February 2020, Rob Hoogland of Surrey, British Columbia is living that horror story. The courts there have ruled that his 14-year-old daughter, who believes she is “transgender” (thanks to school propaganda), can be given medical procedures to “change” her sex to a boy – despite her father’s fierce objections.
These procedures include puberty-blockers, opposite-sex hormones, likely followed by surgical procedures. According to the “gender clinic” hospital’s own consent form (which the father refused to sign), these drugs are experimental and will cause sterility and other dangerous side effects, such as unhealthy bone growth. The effects are irreversible. But the judges and other government officials are ignoring those dangers.
Moreover, the court has ordered that Rob may not discuss publicly any details about what is happening to his daughter. In addition, the court has ordered that he may not refer to his daughter by her actual female name; he must refer to her as “Quinn” and as “he/him.”
But Rob has refused to abide by that draconian gag order. He has been interviewed in various conservative media and has named the hideous doctors at the “gender clinic,” LGBT lawyers, judges, government officials, police officials, and others who have contributed to this destruction of his daughter’s body. And MassResistance has supported him throughout most of this ordeal.
In addition, anyone in Canada who has posted articles or videos that disobey that ban and publish Rob’s comments has been ordered to remove them under threat of arrest.
Facing prison time for revealing what is being done
What is happening to Rob now is every parent’s nightmare. He is now considered a criminal.
On April 13-16 he faces a criminal trial for the “crime” of publicly discussing the names of the doctors. He could be sent to prison for five years.
This Tuesday, March 16, he will also be in court and will be served with an arrest warrant for recent “crimes” of talking publicly about his daughter. He will likely be sent to jail for at least 10 days, and possibly until his April trial begins.
But unlike a lot of parents who would have cowered and given up under this kind of tyranny, Rob Hoogland is resolute about fighting this battle. On Thursday he talked with Arthur Schaper of MassResistance.Arthur Schaper of MassResistance interviewing Rob Hoogland via Zoom.
This is one of the most fascinating interviews we’ve ever done:VIDEO:Interview with Rob Hoogland – facing prison for opposing daughter’s sex-change
Gender Clinic Informed Consent Form by the British Columbia Children’s Hospital, which Rob refused to sign. It outlines the horrible dangers and risks of their “sex change” procedures.
Vancouver Police Report outlining Rob’s recent “crimes” of discussing what happened to his daughter, thus necessitating the March 16 court date and arrest warrant.
BC Children’s Hospital outrageous Memorandum to Rob Hoogland where they state that his daughter (whom they call “Quinn”) is in their professional opinion mature enough to make the decision to have sex-change medical procedures – and overrule her father’s refusal to allow it.
Here’s some of what Rob told us in this interview:
I’m thinking about these doctors. Here I am facing time in prison. And these two doctors who are so proud of the work that they do in transitioning children are actually cowards hiding behind children. They are continuing to commit what I consider crimes against humanity. And they are using the government to silence me so that I can’t call them out on this. If they are so proud of it, why are they in hiding? Why won’t they come out and tell everybody how great it is what they are doing?
This speaks volumes as to what they’re trying to cover up. They don’t want you to know what they’re doing with your children. And by disguising it as a “policy” they don’t have to tell parents what’s going on with it. What they will tell you is that it is used to protect children from their parents. How insane is that? Because, they are saying, “Parents are biased, parents will discriminate, parents will do all these terrible things because they don’t agree that their child who is a girl, is really a boy. So we need to protect these children from their parents.”
They’re taking kids during school time out to get [hormone] shots. Parents don’t know what’s going on until it’s too late. They’re not even informing parents that their child is being “transitioned” anymore.
Rapists get two years in prison. I’m looking at five years. Put that into perspective. That tells you how important this is to the government in their experimenting on children.
But these kids are going to be handed a life sentence. It’s irreversible. They will be sterile. They won’t have families. A lot of them will eventually choose to commit suicide because you’re compounding their mental health issues with this. They’ve been falsely told that they can change from a girl to a boy, which is impossible, and now they’re somewhere in the middle. So my five years is nothing compared to the prison these kids are being put into for the rest of their lives.
There’s that moment where a court tells the parent who’s against this that their child’s going to be given cross-sex hormones regardless of what they want. And that moment is such a defeating moment because you know that your child is now going to be irreversibly damaged. And to sit and watch that happen knowing it was completely avoidable is the worst feeling for a parent.
A lot of people are still in denial about all this. They’ll hear my story and say, “Rob must be exaggerating. It can’t be like that. This is Canada. There’s no way this can be happening.”
You guys at MassResistance are one of the leading examples of how we need to fight this, because we’re beyond diplomacy on this matter. We’re at war. And people have to wake up. We’re not going to “negotiate” with them anymore. It’s like negotiating with terrorists who are experimenting with your children. You can’t do it. So people need to stop pretending that’s a path forward. This is a war for the lives of our children and future generations. That’s why I love what you guys do at MassResistance because you recognize this is a war.
Those who think that this madness will never come to the United States, or other countries, are deluding themselves. The LGBT movement is insatiable, and the unending willingness of public officials to do its bidding has a long history already.
We will keep you informed on what happens to Rob Hoogland – a very remarkable person in these dark times.
Please help us continue to do our uncompromising work!
As court-imposed gag order expires, Canadian parent speaks out about his teenage daughter’s state-enforced sex-change.
A MassResistance exclusive
Due to courts being closed because of virus, gag order was not renewed!
Father credits MassResistance for courage and help in fight to save daughter from transgender extremists.
April 30, 2020
British Columbia schools (and others across Canada) have implemented a radical homosexuality and transgender program called “SOGI 123” to heavily indoctrinate schoolchildren. Make no mistake: it will eventually be in your schools if we don’t stop it.
Anyone who doubts that the transgender agenda in the schools is headed into a nightmarish future should look across the border to Canada. Rob Hoogland of Surrey, British Columbia, is living that nightmare.
For over two years, British Columbian school staffers, psychologists, and LGBT activists have been inducing Rob’s daughter to believe that the reason she was struggling with depression and other issues is that she is really a “he.” They repeatedly encouraged and affirmed her new “male” identity. They worked with pro-LGBT doctors who gave her puberty blockers and male hormones to “change” her into a boy.
Rob did not find out about this until a year after it began. He took the school district, staffers, doctors, and others to court. Outrageously, the girl was assigned an LGBT activist lawyer to protect her delusion and oppose her own father. The courts ruled against him and told him that he had to go along with this transgender insanity, even ordering him to refer to his daughter as a “he.”
The courts also placed a gag order on Rob. He could not speak with the press or the public about what his daughter was going through, or even discuss the issue with his daughter. A few months ago, the gag order was modified so he could talk about it with his daughter and even attempt to dissuade her, but he still could not speak to the press about it. On April 15, the gag order expired. Since the courts are closed due to the COVID-19 virus, the order could not be renewed.
Back in February, Rob had had enough and decided to ignore the gag order. He spoke with MassResistance and some other conservative media briefly about his legal fight in the Canadian courts. He was quickly brought back into court and reprimanded by a judge – and threatened with jail time if he broke the order again. Since we are not based in Canada, we were able to publish the interview and not be threatened by a Canadian court.
Now that the order has expired, Rob decided to talk with MassResistance again. This time he talked more about the horrors of what’s been happening and what he’s doing about it.
Rob Hoogland speaks with MassResistance from British Columbia via Skype.
MR: Is there anything new from the last two months that you wanted to share publicly, or that you didn’t get a chance to share before?
RH: Soon after the MassResistance interview came out, I was in court for four days under Justice Tammen. At one point, I used a female pronoun referring to my daughter, and he reprimanded me, saying “How dare you!” In fact, he stood up and screamed at me in the courtroom for doing that. He said, “Why did you do that?” And I said, “I did because I’m the only one doing what is in the best interest of my daughter.” He really didn’t like my saying that. This is the terrible state of the judicial system in Canada.
Justice Michael Tammen yelled at Rob Hoogland for calling his daughter a “she,” but recently released a man convicted of murder pending an appeal of the conviction!
Since then, I have a new attorney, Carol Crosson. She’s a fantastic constitutional lawyer. She specializes in freedom of speech and similar issues. I’m looking forward to working with her.
Carol Crosson, Hoogland’s Constitutional Lawyer
Essentially, Justice Tammen has handed me over to the Attorney General [of British Columbia] to be prosecuted for breaking the gag order. I still have the potential to face up to 30 to 45 days in prison.
MR: Tell us more about what’s happened to your daughter over the last few years.
RH: My daughter is the subject of state-sponsored child abuse. She’s being sterilized and her body is being mutilated – under a transgender agenda that is being promoted throughout all the schools. The schools here are using a radical program called “SOGI 1 2 3.” Its lunatic message to children is “Everyone has a sexual orientation and gender identity.” It’s become a program that a lot of other jurisdictions are looking at and using as a prototype, so it’s not just in British Columbia. They are using it in other provinces. And I think that some of the states like Washington State are taking a look at it, and using it, as well.
Schoolchildren are being encouraged to read books like this. (From a SOGI 123 training video.)
MR: So what it comes down to is you’re protecting your daughter. That’s the crime that you are guilty of.
RH: Right. There’s a bunch of lunatic perverts who want to experiment on my child. They want to sterilize her. It’s just absolute lunacy, what is going on. And they want to cover it up so badly that they are willing to send people like me to prison to keep my mouth shut. They don’t want the public to know what is really going on.
They’ve been able to sell the idea that they are helping these children. They say, “We’re doing great things for these kids. They don’t understand their true gender. They’re screaming in their own skin.” But of course, that’s not what’s happening. They were just going through puberty, like every other teenager does. And they all get through it! I mean, it’s absolute craziness, and I’m not allowed to talk about it without possibly going to jail.
MR: It’s stunning and welcome to see that you are taking this on and are not afraid. This is the kind of courage that more people need to start demonstrating.
RH: Courage needs to be shown: I’m often asked “Why do I like MassResistance?” I’ve said this before: There’s courage there. You’re still up and fighting. So am I. People need to understand that we can defend ourselves and we can stand up for morality and virtues and truth and honor and all these great things.
MR: Regarding your daughter, do you have full custody of her? Has she moved back in with you? Does she still live with her mother? What’s the status on her right now?
RH: We have shared custody.
MR: I understand that they brainwashed her against you. They brought in all these attorneys to keep her away from you. What’s happening now? I mean, how’s the relationship now?
RH: You know, it’s pretty good. A couple weeks ago, she wanted to move in here, back with me. And then I got the excuse back from them: “Well, we can’t do that because of the Coronavirus.” They found another reason to keep her from me. I asked, “Has my daughter been out of the country? Has she traveled?” And they were just mute on that point. And now they’ve convinced her that seeing me is somehow in violation of all these new rules that are set up by COVID-19.
MR: Has your daughter begun to indicate that she wants to go back, to be comfortable with being a girl?
RH: I have not heard that yet. She’s still in that happy state where she thinks that this is working. It takes these kids a number of years before they realize that they made this big mistake. They kind of go through this thing, where it’s like crack cocaine. They’re taking these cross-sex hormones. They feel different. They feel better. They think it’s working. And then all of a sudden it all comes crashing down. It takes a bit of time, and she’s not there yet, no.
MR: Well, we hope she gets out of it before it’s too late. Now, you indicated that there’s something about a class-action lawsuit coming up. Can you tell me about that?
RH: Yeah, what we’re doing, it stems from SOGI 1 2 3. With all these parents like myself, there’s lots of psychological trauma involved. It’s so wrenching when you watch your kid go through this stuff, and you watch what’s going on at the school, and the confusion they are creating in these schools, the delusion that they’re presenting to these kids, and they come home and you can’t do a thing about it. Because the schools tell them you don’t know what you’re talking about. I think that there are so many parents who are just ripping their hair out and just totally going berserk because they don’t know what to do, and think there’s nothing they can do.
It’s time that parents got together and said, “This happened to my kid.” And we get enough of them together and we say, “Hey, it’s time for parents to fight back. Let’s unite and fight back against an agenda that is terrorizing our kids, destroying their lives, and is also psychologically damaging us as parents.”
MR: Have you already set the groundwork for the lawsuit? Do you have lawyers who are prepared to file it (because I know that the courts are closed)? Is there stuff already in place now?
RH: There is to some degree. We need to get enough people involved. So, the game plan right now is to get as many parents on board as possible. Carol Crosson is ready to run forward with it. We’ve got the legal groundwork laid out on this matter. We’re just kind of waiting now for the numbers to grow. We’re working with pro-family media to help get the message out. We want parents who feel brave enough to come forward. They can remain anonymous. They just need to sign on and reach out. They can reach out to us through the Caenis Foundation, or they can reach out to MassResistance and say “I’m interested.” There’s lots of ways they can reach out.
MR: Tell us a little bit more about the Caenis Foundation, because I know that this is something that you are doing moving forward.
I want to help parents who have gone through what I am going through – or who are going to go through what I am going through – to understand. So I’m working with some other pro-family activists to create the Caenis Foundation.
The purpose of this foundation is:
One, to educate parents about this agenda.
Second, we want to help them in the class-action lawsuit. We’ve seen what’s happening in England. Kids who have been victimized by the transgender agenda are coming out of the woodwork in the hundreds. I think people are going to be emboldened by that. So we’re preparing. I even have a lawyer who is ready to talk to any of these parents for free right now. We are very proactive in helping these parents out.
Finally, we’re looking ahead for these children, like my daughter, and saying that when they detransition, we need to be able to support them. This is where I take some comfort. I may have lost my daughter right now in that she’s on the cross-sex hormones. But I know in my heart that she’s going to turn, and she’s going to come back, she’s going to detransition. And in getting this foundation put together we will help them.
MR: Thank you very much, Rob. You’re an inspiration to all of us.
Final comments
All of us should pay attention to what is happening in Canada because that is exactly where the US and many other countries are headed. The extreme radical direction of the schools and the judicial system’s aggressive support of the transgender agenda – ignoring normal constitutional liberties – is clearly already happening.
What Rob Hoogland is now doing to confront it and help others are things that we all should consider doing. MassResistance will continue to work with Rob and others – and together we will fight this insanity!
Please help us continue to do our uncompromising work!
Activists across Canada – in British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario – were prepared to post thousands of these stickers in public areas to keep Rob’s fight alive while he was in jail.
Outside the courthouse just before the hearing, Rob Hoogland ponders his fate as his supporters gather near the doors.
Rob (right) chats with a few of his friends who came to support him, before walking in.
Some local conservative press was also there.
Justice Michael Tammen showed no mercy
Attorney Carey Linde, Rob’s lawyer.
Rob Hoogland in his apartment preparing for an undetermined jail incarceration. He took some time to tell us his thoughts.
Arthur Schaper of MassResistance interviewing Rob Hoogland via Zoom.
The State of the Union 