Pro-Family Transgender Activist running against B.C. NDP Education Minster

Controversial transgender-identified political activist, writer, and public speaker Jenn Smith is running for MLA against British Columbia’s Minister of Education Rob Fleming in the riding of Victoria-Swan Lake (in BC’s capital city). Smith, who was born male but identifies as transgender, has been a leading activist in BC opposing the government’s controversial educational resource program SOGI 123.

Education Minister Rob Fleming maintains the program is designed to make schools more inclusive for LGBTQ students and reduce bullying. Despite being part of the LGBT community, Smith maintains “the program is dangerously confusing to vulnerable children and tramples parental rights. As a former foster child, I also regard this program to be part of a criminal assault on parentless youths that is benefiting the pharmaceutical industry to the tune of billions of dollars worldwide.” Smith calls the resource a “brainwashing program.”

Smith received media attention over the past few years for leading protests and doing public talks designed to illustrate the dangers of SOGI 123 and what he calls a “criminal assault” on psychologically and emotional troubled youths and foster children.

Smith has led and called for a National Inquiry into what he calls “the mass medical ‘sex reassignment’ and pharmaceutical castration and sterilization of psychologically and emotionally troubled children and adolescents,” a call which was recently supported by Conservative Party of Canada MP and past leadership candidate Derek Sloan and has gained thousands of government validated signatures of support. In his video call for an inquiry, Smith also suggested and provided evidence that government policies that contributed to the ‘sex reassignment’ and chemical sterilization of youths may also be heavily and disproportionately targeting aboriginal children. The call for an inquiry is tentatively scheduled to be read in House of Commons in the next few weeks or so.

Smith made national news last year when his talk at the University of British Columbia resulted in the Vancouver Pride Society ejecting the University from the 2019 Pride Parade, and triggering a massive debate both internally at UBC and in the media regarding freedom of speech and “cancel culture” on campus. The talk was heavily protested and members of the group Antifa disrupted the talk and pulled the fire alarm, clearing the building and resulting police being called to remove the trouble-makers.

Smith, a graduate of Simon Fraser University (History/Political Science), says he chose the riding for a couple of reasons: the first is obvious, namely, that this is the riding of the Minister of Education, but Smith also notes that the area has become a symbol for the dangerous erosion of freedom of speech and democracy in Canada. Together with his campaign manager, Chris McCay, Smith has staged rallies on these subjects at the BC Legislature and given four talks in the area that generated larges protests, most notably outside the City Lights Church and the Oak Bay Pavilion which attracted hundreds of protesters.

Smith was also involved as a defendant in a Supreme Court case in which a father was forced against his will to facilitate the pharmaceutical “sex reassignment” of his daughter into a “boy,” a story Smith broke internationally in December of 2018.

“The political climate in our capital,” Smith said, “has become a symbol for a dangerous erosion of our most cherished and important rights: namely. freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, freedom of religion, as well parental rights and women’s rights. People who have been paying attention should be aware that these basic freedoms are under assault in our country, and SOGI 123 is just one visible symbol of a dangerous trend towards an increasingly totalitarian government which is now criminalizing even the recognition of truth and reality.

If I am elected I will seek to expose and stop this trend in our legislature, and cease the criminal assault on our most vulnerable children, as well as oppose the outrageous violations of women’s privacy and sports that recent policies (including SOGI 123) and legislation have caused. All people deserve to be treated with dignity and respect, bullying and harassment should not be tolerated against anybody, but all government laws and policies must be built on a secular foundation of truth and reality, both of which have been violated by this government and our Minister of Education.

I am also a supporter of the use of “direct democracy” (referendums) to make sure key decisions have the support of the public, instead of increasingly draconian measures simply being jammed down the throats of a frequently unwitting or unwilling populace. Direct democracy allows for informed participation of the public and a full and truthful exploration of all sides of a debate.”

Smith is one of five candidates running in Victoria-Swan Lake, Fleming is of course running for the NDP, and there are also candidates running for the Greens, Liberals, and Communists.