A Canadian father, Robert Hoogland was arrested for calling his biological female child “daughter,”
Hoogland surrendered himself to the court on Tuesday after the Attorney General of British Columbia issued warrant of arrest on March 4, 2021 for contempt.
Prior to the arrest, Hoogland’s 14-year-old daughter started referring to herself as a male after watching the pro-transgender film “Handsome and Majestic” at school when she was in the sixth grade. She also begun behave like a tomboy mostly spending her time with boys and constantly landing herself in trouble. .
According to Hoogland, the teenager asked his father to enroll her under a male name rather than her own in the seventh-grade after coming back from school. The father who consulted the school faculties in attempt to improve her daughters habits was dismayed after school officials backed his daughter’s demand which later forced him to report the matter to police.
Hoogland later discovered that the school played a role in the gender transaction of the child by forcing the girl to change her gender without telling her parents and asked her to start using the male-only bathroom.
Displeased by the changes which he thought had irreparable and irreversible bearing on his child, Hoogland submitted in court that his daughter needed an emotional affirmation and not a medical intervention to rescue her from her transgender delusions.
However the court, led by Justice Boden ruled that the parents must affirm their child’s “gender identity”, and refer to the child as a boy as per requested by the child and failure to do so would result in criminal offence.
According to Daily Sabah, contrary to the court ruling, Hoogland continued using the female name and pronouns referring his daughter which led to his arrest.
In his defense, the father of the teenager challenged his right to freedom of speech after making a Charter.
He has disclosed that his is still not changing his position as far as sex change of his daughter is concerned despite the doctors and court agreement to use the name and pronouns that the child is most comfortable with.