Jerry Shenk: Oh, Canada, glorious and … woke …?
Eight years ago, the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario, Canada, proposed a special training program for its members that, at the time, took sexual preference awareness to new illogical extremes.
The Federation speculated that, although fewer than one percent of its members were “open with their identities, …some surveys suggest as much as half the public secretly identifies as LGBT to some extent.”
The “extent” was unspecified, but the actual number very probably was — and remains — far less than “half,” more likely a small fraction of the population. However, among Canadian elementary school teachers … who knows …?
The stated goal of the training was “to become more familiar with current language, sensitive to current issues, and to share best practices in supporting our LGGBDTTTIQQAAPP peers and students.”
Students?! Frankly, it’s impossible to imagine a logical reason for exposing (no pun intended) elementary school children to left-wing sexual identity theory.
Nearly a four-time multiplier of the then-more-familiar “LGBT,” the acronym, “LGGBDTTTIQQAAPP,” included fifteen “sexual preferences”: Lesbian, Gay, Genderqueer, Bisexual, Demisexual, Transgender, Transsexual, Two-Spirit, Intersex, Queer, Questioning, Asexual, Allies, Pansexual, and Polyamorous.
(As an aside, according to medical science, chronic “acronymia” is not a life-threatening affliction, merely an annoying one.)
However, the acronym’s list posed some questions.
For example, did Canada have a mandatory questionnaire to catalogue its citizens’ sexual preferences? (We now know that it did not — and does not, at least, so far … but, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Party is running things, so stay tuned …)
Plus, if “Questioning” is used to describe people who haven’t decided how or which way they will swing, doesn’t their uncertainty, the implication of choice, “question” the notion that people are “born that way?”
And, isn’t it discriminatory for a program promoting “inclusiveness” for more than a dozen sexual preferences to exclude an “H” for “Heterosexuals,” the vast majority of humankind? Where’s the respect, the “inclusion,” the “sensitivity” for the rest of us?
Does the “Allies” category consist primarily of “sympathetic” heterosexuals who spend social media time virtue-signaling their support for the other acronymiacs? If so, the majority of heterosexuals who don’t virtue signal, that is, those who prefer to mind their own business, are still excluded.
Now, fast forward to 2026.
Today, “LGGBDTTTIQQAAPP” is no longer adequate to define Canadian gender identities — or something …
First, let’s stipulate that, other than their kidnappers and murderers, perhaps, nobody wants to see women and girls — or anyone — kidnapped and murdered. Most people don’t need a social movement or specific government action to know that kidnapping and murder are wrong. In fact, it’s at least fairly certain that kidnapping and murder are already capital crimes almost everywhere, even in Canada.
Nonetheless, while speaking at a recent live press conference, avowed-socialist Canadian parliamentarian Leah Gazan dropped the acronym “MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+.” Impressively, she had mastered, and could rapidly speak and repeat “MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+” without referring to notes — and with a perfectly straight face!
Gazan said she was “shocked to find out that Prime Minister Carney is cutting $7 billion between Indigenous Services Canada and Crown-Indigenous Relations. They provided $0 to deal with the ongoing genocide of MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+!”
What, you might ask, other than a super-strong wi-fi password, is “MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+?”
A search reveals that “MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+” stands for “Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, and Asexual.” Furthermore, we’re told the plus-sign includes any other gender identity (dozens?) not covered by the rest of that baffling acronym.
Astonishingly, it was the Canadian government (!) that crafted the acronym, allegedly to highlight the rates of violence against Indigenous women and girls. But why bureaucrats combined specifically female victims with a spectrum of sexual preference identities remains a mystery.
As one’s astonishment subsides, it becomes less surprising that Canada has published a MMIWG2SLBTQQIA+ National Action Plan. The plan is “extensive and detailed, covering a wide range of topics related to the experiences, challenges, and needs of Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ individuals.”
Still confused … Is it possible that every indigenous woman and girl who was/is kidnapped/murdered was/is also 2SLGBTQQIA+ — or vice versa?
Angry and defiant, Gazan has denounced those who are mocking her for using the term MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+.
But, while she’s denouncing critics, perhaps Gazan — or Mr. Carney – can explain why the lengthy acronym excludes “Missing and Murdered Indigenous Men and Boys.”
Surely, #MMIMB Lives Matter, too. Don’t they …?
Contact columnist Jerry Shenk at jshenk@gmail.com
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