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@timthielmann @cbcwatcher But also, it’s really important how you say that it’s not just about abolishing Indian reserves, but distributing ownership to those people, bypassing the chiefs. Living in “communist ethnostates” prevents any chance of growing with Canada

So happy to see this discussion making its way across the country. It is time t bring indigenous people, fully into the nation with equal rights, responsibilities, and opportunities. Nothing more nothing less. Remove section 35, abolish, Indian reserves, and create a new foundation for prosperity for all.

Without mentioning Eby's disastrous BC failures by name regarding Section 35 rights, Smith: "And my reading of it is that it was never intended to continue being open ended and redefined by the Court to create new and increasing rights over and over again with each new decision." "It was never intended to undermine private property rights, never intended to undermine the ability of provinces to have control over their resources." "...That's why I think that it's been an error in law. It needs to be challenged." @rmohamed_yow @ABDanielleSmith

@timthielmann @thevivafrei @GordonShar95541 @Shawnbuckleylaw Have you read this one Tim?

Great conversation. I am a former indigenous rights lawyer who’s been raising these same concerns about UNDRIP and the underlying philosophy of reconciliation. Here’s my conversation with Aaron Pete on the subject: youtu.be/Py3Ktn4iEkc?si… youtu.be/Py3Ktn4iEkc?si… youtu.be/Py3Ktn4iEkc?si…

What is UNDRIP? United Nations Declaration of Rights for Indigenous People. You've probably never even heard heard of it, and it's going to destroy Canada. With @Shawnbuckleylaw

@TracycCoyle @shamanspirit13 @NeuroSGS So do I 😃

Any field can be politicized. And no field is sufficient developed in order to say: we know it all. And so I tend to look not at instances, but trends and consistencies. I also trust my experiences when they are consistent with others, the science, and common sense. What was known in the 70s, the 90s, the 2010s, and now regarding gender dsyphoria, gender incongruence, has developed as understanding and knowledge has grown.

Before asserting that “gender is in the brain,” several conceptual and methodological questions need to be addressed. First, what precisely is meant by “gender identity” in this context? Is it being treated as a stable internal construct, a multidimensional psychological profile, a social identity, or some combination thereof? Which traits or experiences constitute it, and how is it operationalized empirically? Through self-report? Behavioral measures? Clinical criteria? Quantitative scales? Qualitative assessment? Second, why should neuroanatomical sex dimorphism be assumed to underlie gender identity specifically? What is the proposed causal mechanism? Why privilege this explanation over alternative developmental, endocrine, cognitive, social, or biopsychosocial models? Third, which neural regions or networks are implicated? Are findings convergent across studies, modalities, and populations, or are they heterogeneous and weakly replicated? To what extent are reported effects robust after correcting for sample size limitations, multiple comparisons, publication bias, and overlapping variance with biological sex? Finally, how are confounding variables being handled? For example: hormone exposure, psychiatric comorbidity, medication, neuroplastic adaptation, cultural conditioning, sexuality, developmental history, and differences in self-concept formation. Which variables should be controlled for, and which may themselves be constitutive of the phenomenon under investigation? Without resolving these questions, claims such as “a male brain can exist in a female body” risk exceeding the current evidential basis.

@TracycCoyle @shamanspirit13 @NeuroSGS You seem sufficiently educated to know that “science” can be highly political and constantly in flux, especially with these metaphysical concepts - e.g. Multiple Personality Disorder. Before 1994 it was published as “fact” in the DSM-IV.

Reliance on 'regressive stereotypes' to argue there are no human behavioral patterns that are biased per sex is rejecting the science. And no, body dysmorphia is always 'parts oriented' and focused on appearance rather than rejection. Happy to point you to research, including DSM5, or just read the science instead of Reddit. tracycoyle.com/human-behavior…

@TracycCoyle @shamanspirit13 @NeuroSGS “physical body aspect specific”? That makes me laugh. Body dysmorphia is VERY much concerning the “entirety”. But I pardon your misunderstanding. In the meantime you may want to examine how regressive gender stereotypes are dictating your “sense of self”. Or don’t 😃

Body dysmorphia is 'physical body aspect' specific. Incongruity is a mismatch concern the entirety. "other delusions" are called mental illnesses because the patient had a state prior to their illness of being healthy - and testing is well established to distinguish between them

@TracycCoyle @shamanspirit13 @NeuroSGS How is this body-mind incongruence different from other body dismorphic conditions? Anorexia and other delusions? Where is the difference 🤷‍♀️

Only IF the medical community is willing to engage in DIAGNOSIS. And if there is a clear indication of the actual diagnosis. I've broken more than 35 bones, often, just hairline fractures, but ONLY when it is clearly diagnosed, is a treatment approach considered. That is the problem with symptoms, they can cover a multitude of different etiologies. People that believe NO such etiology exists, in opposition to those that refuse to accept diagnostic efforts, are both wrong. Incongruence is an awareness of the mismatch between the fetal development of physiology and psychology designed to support reproduction. Awareness of that mismatch is a SYMPTOM. And it is possible: to have a perfectly healthy physiology; and to have a perfectly healthy psychology, and for them to be 180 degrees in opposition. And the science exists to support it.

@Bratt_world @Kispiox21 @BenWoodfinden @katy_merrifield Should think so! Have you ever wondered how healthcare, education, infrastructure etc would be provided if the province/country went bankrupt. You might want to spend some time in 3rd world countries before suggesting it doesn’t matter.

@Kispiox21 @BenWoodfinden @katy_merrifield And THAT is enough to be outraged about

The concern with Cowichan was never that someone would show up and take your house. The concern is what happens for example when you try to refinance your mortgage. Justice Young’s decision declared Aboriginal title over roughly 800 acres in Richmond (not the remote northeast...Richmond), covering over 100 privately held properties. The court declared Crown and city-held titles on the land “defective and invalid.” It found that the granting of private titles “unjustifiably infringed” on Aboriginal title. And it said the coexistence of Aboriginal title and private property would need to be negotiated and reconciled going forward with private interests remaining valid only “until such a time as a court may determine otherwise.” Your title wasn’t struck down. But it’s been put on notice. And that’s all a bank needs to hear. Your mortgage is backed by your fee simple title. When a court says Aboriginal title coexists on the same land, and that your title’s grant was an unjustifiable infringement, and that its future needs to be negotiated, the bank looks at its collateral and asks what it’s actually worth. Banks don’t do uncertainty. They price it or they walk away. And they are walking away. A Richmond homeowner who had owned his home since 1975 went public saying his bank refused to renew his mortgage after the ruling. Over 650 people showed up to a Richmond townhall, furious. Montrose Properties (the largest private landowner in the claim area, with Coca-Cola, Wayfair, and Canadian Tire warehouses on the land) stated in legal filings it was denied $35 million in financing because of the ruling, and that discussions about a separate project had ceased. Appraisers are warning property values in the area could drop 30 to 40 percent. It appears that not a single property in the claim area has sold in 2026. Appraisers have started adding disclaimers to their reports: “We assume the subject property is not subject to a land claim and they are valued as if unencumbered.” Plant drew a line between a house in a city and a mining project in the northeast. The court erased that line. And if the ruling really poses no threat to private property, why did David Eby offer $150 million in loan guarantees to backstop mortgages that banks won’t write? Why did his government go door to door asking homeowners if they’d been unable to refinance? Why did his own AG say the ruling “could have significant unintended consequences for fee simple private property rights in BC”? Governments don’t backstop mortgages against threats that don’t exist.

@350zeee @cakeandcom @RachaelWongAus @salltweets It’s sad and very telling that you think it’s ok to grab rights and safety away from women instead of demanding men adhere to rules. If a biological man (or boy) is not safe in the men’s facilities, this is not grounds to endanger biological women and girls. Goodness!

@Timefor55243607 @cakeandcom @RachaelWongAus @salltweets What about the the right of trans to be safe? Or you don't think the rules apply equally. Because you have a dislike of trans people. Women have been protected species by man, a form of discrimination. Everyone has a right to be safe.

Dear Federal Senators and MPs: "Make the current government explain why women and girls cannot have rights. Make them explain why men can be women. Force them to say it. Don't force us to have to do this fight and raise millions of dollars to do your work." -@salltweets 🔥🔥🔥 ⬇️ What you can do to help restore legal protections for Australian women and girls based on biological sex following Giggle v Tickle: 📣 Join @WomensForumAust's campaign calling for cross-party action to fix the Sex Discrimination Act NOW: womensforumaustralia.org/fixthesda ⚖️ Support Sall's legal fund: gigglecrowdfund.com #FixTheSDA #IStandWithSallGrover #Auspol

@350zeee @cakeandcom @RachaelWongAus @salltweets What? How is any of that related to the rights of women to safe, protected spaces?

@Timefor55243607 @cakeandcom @RachaelWongAus @salltweets Yes it's up to man to protect women. Don't let them have careers that might put them in danger, like being in the Army, should be at home looking after the kids. And don't tell any bad stuff they'll become hysterical. They're fragile and need protecting. I'm being sarcastic.

@350zeee @cakeandcom @RachaelWongAus @salltweets It’s great you understand that “women have been discriminated against for millennia”, but have you ever thought why? Is it because they dress like women. NO - it’s because they can’t defend themselves. This is why they need safe spaces. This is why men can’t ever be allowed.

@cakeandcom @RachaelWongAus @salltweets And every woman in Australia to claim they are men. If women have no sex based rights under the Sex Discrimination Act, would you agree that law applies equally to men's rights? How can you change the law without discriminating against another gender?

@hardlyperennial @helensaxby11 Age, unlike sex, is definitely on a spectrum. We all age at different rates. I should be able to alter my birth certificate to qualify for senior discounts and old-age pension. Why not? I feel old 🤷‍♀️

@helensaxby11 And that is why it is important that people are not coerced into using certain 'preferred' pronouns. Scottish Presiding Officer should be taking note of this hearing. It starts with pronouns and ends up with adults being allowed to identify as babies.

People will believe anything once they believe some men are women. They might as well defend any other beliefs once they've made that first step.

@martycus @JohnRustad4BC It was ethical and criminally reprehensible. People are disgusted that it was sponsored and supported by the CBC. Regardless of where you stand on indigenous issues, this should alarm you.

@Timefor55243607 @JohnRustad4BC Why? This was indigenous led. Is that why people hate it?

The CBC’s decision to involve itself in the taxpayer-funded prank is not journalism, nor is it comedy. It is a deliberate and deeply troubling misuse of public resources to target and shame Canadian citizens who have simply insisted on evidence before accepting an extraordinary claim as established fact.

@martycus @JohnRustad4BC I’m sure you know this Marty, but Borat was not funded by taxpayers. It’s completely different when done from a state sponsored platform.

@JohnRustad4BC Free speech crowd doesn't like a form of free speech. Conservatives calling for censorship was not on my bingo card.

@Bratt_world @AdamZivo @aottho Are you sure? The “blood and soil” phrase, propagated by the Nazi’s, was used to promote Aryan unity by teaching they were specially entitlement to land because of their special ethnicity, and that set them apart from other people currently on the land….yikes!

“Blood and soil” referred to people who will kill others that didn’t have the same blood, to protect the soil (country) 🤔 But that’s not what’s happening with land acknowledgments. It’s talking about sharing lands. I think it’s silly too, but you’re getting quite worked up and it’s not a fair comparison at all.

Land acknowledgements are bullshit and fundamentally about normalizing blood-and-soil nationalism. They pretend that North America rightfully belongs to one ethnicity, and that all other peoples, lacking an ill-defined “spiritual” connection to the continent, should perpetually be “grateful” for the “opportunity” to exist here. If European nations demanded that all non-Europeans regularly express gratitude for living on “traditionally European lands,” progressives would rightfully see this as unjust. Yet, they abandon their principles when it comes to Indigenous land acknowledgements because they are either too stupid, or too intellectually unprincipled, to see the contradiction here. Land acknowledgements should be purged from our institutions, and, to this end, no self-respecting conservative should perform them. The obvious exception would be at events that specifically concern the Indigenous community, and only if an acknowledgement uses wording that simply states historical facts without establishing a racial hierarchy of citizen legitimacy.

@mnsj1968 @PublicLandBC Because that would make it unsafe for everyone. But they are free to access it following the rules like everyone.

@PublicLandBC If public land belongs to everyone, why can't homeless populations camp in parks and all other public lands? As you say, it belongs to everyone.

Update: BC continues to close Joffre Lakes Park to non-Indigenous visitors for: June 20-27 Sept. 8-30 Access restrictions for British Columbians to Crown land because of ancestry or identity is unacceptable. Public land belongs to everyone. #bcpoli news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2026E…

@TorranceCoste @ThomasBeyer Torrance, I’m curious, do you know if there is an historical precedent? Are there other countries with colonial origins where treaties existed in one area, but as the nation formed it was assumed that the same terms existed across the country?Britain defended this area from US 🤷‍♀️

@ThomasBeyer Yeah it is Thomas. British colonial law states the crown can acquire land through treaty, purchase, warfare or claiming terra nullius. None of those things happened here. You don’t need to be scared about it, but you do have to admit the truth.

Yeah, it could be contentious if it’s reported on as shallowly as this. There are 644 provincial parks in BC. Closing a few of them for a couple weeks to allow use by the Nations whose land it is, who weren’t consulted on park creation, isn’t a big a deal at all. #bcpoli

@Dr_JDietrich @VancouverSun It’s also a chance for kids who find academics a struggle to be successful and recognized at school. It’s important to feel valued for their abilities. Don’t take that away from them either!

@VancouverSun Have the non-competitive things in gym or a school fun day where everyone can participate and have fun. There should be an option for kids who want to work hard and excel or improve to do that and be recognized for it. Don't take that away from them.

Richmond parents push back against gender-neutral, non-competitive elementary track meets vancouversun.com/news/local-new…

@neilDCFC @KatStev31801943 @sharrond62 Your posts get funnier and funnier…when they put “5k and 2k” with a picture of running shoes - it’s comical to suggest it isn’t a “sporting” event. But go ahead, argue what you like, I’m enjoying your efforts 😃

@Timefor55243607 @KatStev31801943 @sharrond62 Nope. Did you actually go to the website?

Parkrun can… A.Remove placing & course records & everyone run together in one big inclusive category B. Add a category for females so they can have their own records & places based on SC law, reality & biology

@Jamie_langley1 @Welshinlondon And the amateur runner is out there for twice as long, so fueling will be very significant

@Welshinlondon The mechanical demand will drive the metabolic demand. The energy demand for running 13.1mph is considerably higher than running 6.55mph. Over the total duration of the marathon RE will determine the difference in total energy cost. Per hour faster speed = higher demand.

If you don't have the speed of Sawe do you need to fuel like Sawe? If you're not running sub 2 hour marathon pace do you need to consume ~110g of carbohydrates an hour?

@neilDCFC @KatStev31801943 @sharrond62 😂 it’s a community sporting event Neil

@Timefor55243607 @KatStev31801943 @sharrond62 It’s a community event. Go on their website and do some research.