Thread by @christophelston

It’s day 2 of the trial for the father unable to stop the medical transitioning of his 14-year-old daughter.

The dad is currently sitting in jail because he refused to follow a gag order prohibiting him from speaking publicly.

I’m at the courthouse and I’ll update live.

Due to a publication ban, the father can only be known as C.D.

C.D.’s lawyer, Carey Linde, points out that a 14-year-old child is unable to consent to their own sterilization.

As a father, C.D. felt that he had to protect her.

Not only was the daughter transitioning without his consent, but social transitioning at school and medical decisions were made without his knowledge.

Using the BC Infants Act as justification to treat the girl as a mature minor, the school and doctors refused to disclose what was happening.

The father did what he thought he had to do by speaking out publicly. This was an act of civil disobedience.

Lawyer Carey Linde states he is convinced that matters of consent must ultimately be determined by the court, as we saw with Keira Bell and the Tavistock in December, 2020.

The Tavistock is the gender clinic in the UK, and last December the High Court ruled that children cannot give informed consent to puberty blockers.

billboardchris.com/high-court-dec…

Carey Linde wants to go over the consent form that the child signed, but the judge is chastising him because the consent form had been posted to the internet.

Carey Linde says that has nothing to do with why he is bringing up the consent form but the judge won’t hear it.

Heated exchange between C.D.’s lawyer and the judge.

Judge finally says carry on and Linde gets back to the consent form.

Right there on the form it says that the cause of gender dysphoria is unknown.

Linde says if the cause of gender dysphoria is unknown, how is the diagnosis and proper treatment determined?

The consent form states that the impact of puberty blockers and testosterone are unknown.

It also states that reproductive organs may need to be removed in the future.

How can a child consent to this?

Linde says it’s important that the judge understands why C.D. did what he did.

Rightly or wrongly, the judge needs to understand the motivations of the father.

Judge Tammen continues to chastise Linde, basically questioning his ability as a lawyer.

Judge Tammen says he can’t connect the dots regarding why the father posted the consent form online.

Really, judge?

His conscience told him to. This isn’t hard. His child and thousands of children are coming to harm.

Linde brings up the High Court decision again, about how these treatments are experimental.

The father objected to his daughter signing a form that says she agrees she may become sterile, and he felt he had to act.

The judge says this has nothing to do with the publication ban.

This judge says he can’t understand why the father felt the need to break the publication ban.

They just went in circles for 10 minutes, at times quite heated, and are now moving on.

Carey Linde is reading more from the consent form: it states testosterone therapy has risks that are unknown.

Linde gets back to the Tavistock decision. The issue at the heart of this is whether a child can give informed consent.

Seeing as we know very little about the long-term effects of these drugs, obviously they cannot.

Linde continues to read from the High Court decision regarding why children cannot consent to puberty blockers.

billboardchris.com/high-court-dec…

Linde says C.D. doesn’t know how the consent document ended up on massresistance.org

Crown Counsel immediately object, saying it’s been admitted to. Linde disagrees.

Judge brings up a previous hearing about a document that ended up on thefederalist.com

In short, the judge isn’t sure he believes C.D.

The judge sees this as the most egregious violation of the publications ban: the posting of the consent form on massresistance.org

There is a break while Linde and Crown Counsel try to hash some things out regarding who posted the document.

The judge is now addressing how journalist @DanDicksPFT has violated the publication ban, and how he can’t hide south of the 49th.

He asks if Dan Dicks is in attendance here today.

Lawyer Carry Linde is addressing the rules regarding C.D.’s pending probation order.

Is C.D. allowed to call his daughter his daughter?

Judge Tammen brings up @jordanbpeterson, who the judge alleges helped spread a narrative that C.D. was arrested for calling his daughter his daughter.

Tammen says he has no intention of issuing a probation order that prohibits C.D. from privately discussing his child’s gender.

The judge says C.D.’s GoGetFunding page is a clear breach of the court order, because he had his own likeness on it and it identified him by his name.

The judge asks if there should be any financial penalty associated with the breach, or if these “ill-gotten gains” from the fundraiser should be allowed to go to the father.

Linde says the donations should at the very least go to the first lawyer who has yet to be paid.

Carey Linde, FYI, works pro bono for C.D. as part of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms.

The judge just stated he very much is considering imposing an additional term of imprisonment, beyond time served.

He thinks 45 days in prison is “woefully inadequate.”

We’re on a lunch break until 2pm.

Apparently the first lawyer worked pro bono as well.

Correction from earlier: Carey Linde is not associated with the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms. My mistake.

Jenn Smith, a friend of C.D. and an outspoken critic of SOGI 123 is now addressing the judge.

Crown Counsel objects to Smith talking, saying he seems to have moved from talking about C.D. to talking about himself. The judge wants to hear what Smith has to say.

Jenn Smith now talking about how he went after Jordan Peterson for saying something Jenn didn’t feel was accurate.

Smith says C.D. has suffered emotional trauma and had nowhere to turn but to talk to right wing “grifters and nut jobs.”

Says they’re contaminating C.D.’s brain with right wing propaganda, and this should be a mitigating factor in sentencing.

Well that was interesting. 😬 The judge seemed to like that Jenn has bad things to say about people who are helping to expose this case.

Crown says C.D. is responsible for his own actions. It doesn’t matter if he got caught up and influenced by others.

Judge asks if C.D. wants to testify again before the judge gets to sentencing.

C.D. says he tried to be supportive of his daughter, and was treating this like a fad. He wanted her to at least wait until the age of 18.

C.D. says how for a long time he respected court orders not to speak.

Until the Court of Appeal ruling in 2020 he kept quiet.

He wanted to pursue this all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada.

The Federalist wanted to fly out and interview C.D.

C.D. weighed what was the best way to go about this, and still hoped they would go to the Supreme Court.

He became convinced due to his unique position that he was fighting for a higher cause.

C.D. says since he’s been incarcerated he has come to understand how not everyone he worked with has his best interests in heart.

He says he feels like he’s been a pawn used by some people to sell their papers.

C.D. says a part of him feels like he’s been taken and he was dumb enough to do some interviews.

This feels like a prisoner confessing under duress.

C.D. says he never meant to hurt his child. “Civil disobedience, I don’t know.”

So many days he’s regretted what he’s done. Trusted people he shouldn’t have. He says the first day he was incarcerated he was able to start reflecting on what he’s done.

C.D. wants to close this chapter and move on with his life.

He repeats that he thinks children should have to wait until they are 18, but everyone knows his position now.

He says his intention was never to expose his child, but he acknowledges that happened. More regrets expressed.

Says in hindsight he would navigate things differently.

C.D. just wants to work on repairing the relationship with his child.

His stance hasn’t changed in that he feels children cannot consent to these medical treatments.

The red flag for him had nothing to do with transgenderism, but with the medicalization.

That concludes today’s testimonies.

Sentencing is scheduled for this Friday, April 16th, at 11am.