Justin Ling has the answer to that(and I'd encourage everyone to read the entire piece)...
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For a minute, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre seemed to resist going down this road. Last year, I quizzed a high-ranking Conservative Member of Parliament about Poilievre’s intentions. Poilievre was never going to drape himself in a trans flag, the MP assured me, but he had no plans to embrace transphobic policies.
“They know (doing that would) fuel hatred,” that MP told me. They did it anyway.
Earlier this year, I asked Poilievre his position on banning healthcare for trans youth. He didn’t answer. Instead, he accused me of “spreading disinformation,” and of refusing to discuss the actual policies in question. (His handlers snatched the microphone away before I could respond.) He ranted that “Justin Trudeau has spread hatred against parents.”
A day later, Poilievre went even further than Smith, calling for a total ban on puberty blockers and hormones for those under 18. “I think we should protect children,” Poilievre told reporters. From whom, he didn’t say.
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The protest and revelry of Pride month is over. Now we need to take stock of why support for our community has plunged. To me, it’s no great mystery: Conservative politicians in this country, and around the world, have been attacking the LGBTQ community and they’ve radicalized their supporters in the process. We know what happens if this doesn’t stop. We’ve seen it before. Our rights get repealed. Anti-Queer violence climbs. Our hard-won progress bleeds away.
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Politicians have enabled this toxicity by actively misrepresenting the issue, claiming children are being hurt or indoctrinated by health professionals. Major medical associations in Canada and the United States continue to support this healthcare and oppose the kind of bans Smith has imposed (and Poilievre supports.) There is ample study and debate happening amongst the experts, some politicians just don’t care.
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https://www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...5f25bdb13.html
Conservative politicians, from New Brunswick to Ottawa to Saskatchewan to Alberta have made this worse, this year. They have responded to the rhetoric from the bleating insipid cowards and enacted policies harming this community, for votes. At least I hope they are only shallow enough to do it for votes, and not hate, too. Though I'm not sure they have earned any benefit of the doubt here. And yet, we are told we must not vote the Liberals. This is the alternative. I will not support this. Neither should you.