Mick Hartley

More from the strange world of gender-friendly Canada:

A British academic has claimed she was deplatformed by the Canadian government over her views on transgender issues.

Alice Sullivan, a professor of sociology at University College London, was set to give an online talk to staff at the Canadian Department of Justice last week about the problems with prioritising self-described gender data over biological sex, which the Canadian government now does “by default”.

She was abruptly told the International Women’s Day event had been scrapped, with no official reason.

Prof Sullivan said: “After I had sent my slides, I received a phone call from a member of the department saying that she had been told to cancel the event.”

“She was not authorised to give me any explanation but indicated that, of course, we both knew what the reason was… you are not allowed to talk about sex in Canada.”

Not to worry. Those Canadians know what really matters.

A report released in 2018 by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat and the Department of Justice said: “Departments and agencies should collect or display gender information by default, unless sex information is specifically needed.”

This would “ensure that the gender of transgender, non-binary and two-spirit individuals is accurately represented”.