OP-ED: Time for Canada's Conservatives to lead now that Canada’s gender bubble has burst
"For years, many have argued that gender-identification and the medical transition of children is a social contagion like cutting, or eating disorders. But it’s far bigger than that."
Author: Shannon Boschy
In the 2015 film The Big Short, there’s an unforgettable scene where Steve Carell’s character, Mark Baum—a hedge fund manager based on real-life investor Steve Eisman—and his business partner confront a woman wearing glasses as if she is vision-impaired, a bond-rating officer in the offices of Standard and Poor. She admits the ugly truth: “If you don’t go along with rating these bonds triple-A, our competitors will do it. That’s the way the world works.”
For years, many have argued that gender-identification and the medical transition of children is a social contagion like cutting, or eating disorders. But it’s far bigger than that. Like the housing bubble in The Big Short, what appeared first as a secular and isolated contagion in mortgage and lending, is exposed as a systemic infection, the type of bubble that based on historic patterns, has a predictable course of explosive growth, irrational highs, reality denials, and catastrophic collapse.
