ZitatA father in Canada is facing the possibility of arrest if he refers to his trans-identified 14-year-old daughter as a “girl” after a court ordered that the teen be allowed to begin taking testosterone.
The teenager's mother supports the gender transition while the father is opposed.
After the British Columbia Supreme Court ruled in February to allow the 14-year-old girl, Maxine (not her real name), to begin taking drugs to transition to look more like a boy, the court issued a “protection order” this month in an attempt to stop her father (known as Clark) from continuing to privately or publicly refer to his daughter as a female.
In the order issued on April 15 and a related document justifying it, Justice Francesca Marzari argues that the father committed “family violence” by issuing what the court called “expressions of rejection” of the child’s gender identity.