Mark Steyn: I’ll be grateful if the commission doesn’t order me a compulsory labiaplasty.
The party of the first part’s parts [Mark Steyn]
Margaret Wente was interested to know what Canadian “human rights” commissions do when they’re not prosecuting magazines for publishing Steyn book excerpts, so she swung by the current “human rights” tribunal in Toronto. A woman is suing a cosmetic surgeon for declining to perform a labiaplasty on the grounds that, as she’s a transsexual, he had no idea what he was, so to speak, getting into. Needless to say, the Ontario “human rights” commission took the case because they saw it as a potential landmark test for “transsexuals’ access to medical care”. I especially liked this bit:
Well, he was rude. He said hurtful things and hurt her feelings. The hearing has now adjourned for a few weeks, in hopes that further mediation may find a way to soothe them.
Over lunch, Michelle told me that the demeaning treatment by Dr. Stubbs “had a profound effect on the rest of my life.” After that, she became a full-time activist. Today she has a government-funded job investigating the health status of the transsexual population.
She and Jenn also have a small business that’s hired by big companies to do diversity awareness training, especially around transgender issues. Business is good. They get a lot of work courtesy of human rights commissions.
My feelings were hurt by being denounced as a “flagrant Islamophobe”, but I’m unlikely to get a government job out of it. On the other hand, I’ll be grateful if the commission doesn’t order me a compulsory labiaplasty.