Canadian man fined $750K for refusing to kowtow to trans ideology

A former Canadian faculty board of trustees member who has been fined $750,000 over his public feedback expressing opposition to the promotion of trans ideology in faculties is interesting the choice.

In a choice issued Wednesday, the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal ordered former Chilliwack Board of Schooling trustee Barry Neufield to pay $750,000 for purportedly discriminating towards trans-identified lecturers and employees within the Chilliwack College District by expressing opposition to efforts to push gender confusion, and by expressing on social media his perception within the scientific actuality that there are solely two sexes.  

The tribunal claims the astronomical superb is justified to compensate the LGBT-identified district workers for “injury to their dignity, feelings, and self-respect.”

For the reason that estimated variety of lecturers in Chilliwack College District who recognized as LGBT from 2017-2022 was between 45 and 163, the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal estimates that every will obtain between $4,601.23 and $16,666.67. 

Along with requiring him to pay a $750,000 superb, Neufield is barred from participating in actions that violate provisions of the British Columbia Code of Human Rights that prohibit discriminatory publications, hate speech and discrimination in employment. He additionally has to pay $442 to an unnamed plaintiff named “Teacher C” to compensate for the previous trainer’s misplaced wages for attending a listening to about Neufield’s refusal to kowtow to trans ideology.  

The unidentified “Teacher C” resigned from the college district in 2021, alleging a hostile work surroundings as a consequence of Neufield’s feedback and the district’s response. 

Neufield’s public opposition towards efforts to push trans ideology and gender confusion in Canadian faculty curriculum started with an Oct. 23, 2017, Fb publish, the place he expressed concern that “[T]he Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) program instructs children that gender is not biologically determined, but is a social construct.”

“At the risk of being labelled a bigoted homophobe, I have to say that I support traditional family values and I agree with the College of paediatricians that allowing little children choose to change gender is nothing short of child abuse,” he added. “But now the BC Ministry of Education has embraced the LGBTQ lobby and is forcing this biologically absurd theory on children in our schools. Children are being taught that heterosexual marriage is no longer the norm. Teachers must not refer to ‘boys and girls’ they are merely students.”

The Oct. 23, 2017, Fb publish was one in every of many who the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal claimed to have violated the British Columbia Human Rights Code’s prohibitions on “discriminatory publications and/or hate speech.” In a separate Fb publish from Dec. 18, 2017, Neufield explicitly talked about how his Christian religion performs a task in his opposition to LGBT ideology. 

“It dawned on me that for a Christian, there are two approaches to take. The pastoral approach is one of compassion and empathy while firmly refusing to buy into their client’s delusional thinking. As one pastor said to a transgender person: ‘it is my responsibility to love you: but it is God’s job the [sic] change you’. However, while helping me grasp a better understanding of gender Dysphoria, the [issue] is so complex that it is hard to apply these insights in a debate at the political level, especially on Facebook,” he wrote. 

Figuring out the “other approach” as “prophetic,” Neufield detailed how “In the Bible, the Old Testament prophets upbraided the Kings and rulers for their wickedness and lack of Justice” whereas “In the New Testament, the prophetic gifts were used to admonish the WHOLE church and all of society.” Neufield concluded that he had been “thrown into the role of prophet.” 

Neufield described his mission as “speaking out to the lawmakers in Victoria and trying to motivate lukewarm Christians who are sitting idly by as all of Society ‘Slouches towards Gomorrah.’”

He warned that the widespread embrace of trans ideology has “demonized people of faith who believe that God created humans male and female: In the Image of God.”

The Rights and Freedoms Fundraising Society is looking for to lift cash for Neufield’s authorized protection so he can search judicial overview of the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal’s resolution.