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April Halley vs. transgender people

April Halley is a Canadian sex segregationist and anti-transgender activist.

Halley has been coordinator for the Newfoundland and Labrador Branch of the Women’s Human Rights Campaign, a board member of Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF), and a founding member of Canadian Women’s Sex-Based Rights (caWsbar).

Halley has contributed to anti-trans publications including Spiked and Quillette.

Background

April Halley is based in Newfoundland. Halley has weighed in on topics related to reproductive freedom and bodily autonomy. As an example, Halley has been critical of commercial surrogacy.

Anti-transgender activism

Starting in 2019, Halley began writing articles critical of Canadian policy on transgender people.

Transgenderism, the belief that an incongruity in your biological sex and the sex you feel you truly are is a medical condition, has seemingly overnight gone from a fringe issue, painted as one of tolerance for a small vulnerable group, to a bizarre and perverted Orwellian nightmare.

Now we no longer merely have to accept that people can be born in the ‘wrong body’ we must change our everyday language or face accusations that we are hate criminals. Women are being robbed of the meaningful descriptors pertaining to our biology. We are being robbed of the very name “woman”. We are now labeled with names like menstrator, bleeder, non-man, and cis-gendered. It is incredibly strange and completely incoherent. It is also much more serious of an issue than most people are gauging it to be.

[…] This is just an introductory post and I will go into much greater detail soon. I am particularly focused on the attacks on spaces for marginalized women. Prisons in particular are a serious concern and should be front page news. Women have been assaulted in prison because violent male sex offenders were allowed to transfer into female facilities. That is completely insane.

Women in shelters and trauma programs are also being deprived of the necessary female only spaces that are vital to their recovery. Most women who require drug treatment shelters or trauma support groups have been victimized by male violence and it is unconscionable to rob them of their meager resources.

While this aspect of this total madness is my most pressing concern I am also interested in other areas, especially the medical interventions being foisted on children.

[…] Everything about this phony* movement is cynical.

  • * this last link was a removed 23,000-word Medium rant by “sue.donym1984” posted on August 6, 2018 titled “Inauthentic Selves: The modern LGBTQ+ Movement Is Run By Philanthropic Astroturf And Based On Junk Science.”

Halley criticized how the Ontario Provincial Police and Statistics Canada recorded crime statistics in regard to sex.

Halley has also criticized the Correctional Service of Canada for their policies on accommodating transgender prisoners.

In written and oral testimony, Halley also criticized the CBC for allegedly biased coverage of trans topics.

Halley also submitted a Parliamentary Brief regarding Bill C-6, a proposed conversion therapy ban.

Anti-trans coverage

Staff report (December 2020). Announcing New WoLF Board Members and Staff. Women’s Liberation Front https://womensliberationfront.org/news/new-board-staff-2020

Murphy, Meghan (September 19, 2019). What’s Current: Canadian woman removed from press conference for asking Justin Trudeau about trans prison policy. Feminist Current https://www.feministcurrent.com/2019/09/19/whats-current-canadian-woman-removed-from-press-conference-for-asking-justin-trudeau-about-trans-prison-policy/

Selected writing by Halley

Halley, April (no date). Parliamentary Brief Re: Bill C-6 (Conversion Therapy). https://www.womensdeclaration.com/documents/124/WomensHumanRightsCampaignNewfoundlandAndLabradorChapter-e.pdf

Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (January 18, 2021). Transcript, Virtual Hearing January 18, 2021. https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/transcripts/2021/tb01_18.htm

Halley, April (December 6, 2020). The Government of Canada Must Clarify Precisely What the Relationship is Between Conversion Therapy Legislation and Provincial Health Care Systems. http://aprilhalley.com/the-government-of-canada-must-clarify-precisely-how-conversion-therapy-legislation-will-affect-provincial-health-care-systems/ [archive]

Halley, April (December 5, 2020). UK Court Rules Minors Incapable of Consenting to Take Puberty Blocking Drugs as Treatment for Gender Dysphoria. http://aprilhalley.com/uk-court-rules-minors-incapable-of-consenting-to-take-puberty-blocking-drugs-as-treatment-for-gender-dysphoria/ [archive]

Halley, April (September 30, 2020). Finding Out if an Offender is in a Men’s or Women’s Prison in Canada is no Easy Task. http://aprilhalley.com/finding-out-if-an-offender-is-in-a-mens-or-womens-prison-in-canada-is-no-easy-task/ [archive]

Halley, April (September 28, 2020). What Are the Nature of Your Thoughts When You Say Gender Identity. http://aprilhalley.com/what-are-the-nature-of-your-thoughts-when-you-say-gender-identity/ [not archived]

Halley, April (September 18, 2020). Even Female Animals Have A Name. http://aprilhalley.com/even-female-animals-have-a-name-for-themselves/ [archive]

Halley, April (February 14, 2020). Criminals should not be allowed to choose their gender. Spiked https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/02/14/criminals-should-not-be-allowed-to-choose-their-gender/

Halley, April (November 2019). Manitoba Human Rights Adjudication Panel Orders Government to Pay out $50,000 in Damages for Failing to Validate Imaginary Genders. http://aprilhalley.com/2019/11/manitoba-adjudication-panel-orders-government-to-pay-out-50-000-in-damages-for-failing-to-validate-imaginary-genders/ [archive]

Halley, April (October 12, 2019). Form Letter for Candidates Re: Commercial Surrogacy. http://aprilhalley.com/2019/10/form-letter-for-candidates-regarding-commercial-surrogacy/ [archive]

Halley, April (October 12, 2019). Male-Bodied Rapists Are Being Imprisoned With Women. Why Do so Few People Care? Quillette https://quillette.com/2019/10/12/male-bodied-rapists-are-being-imprisoned-with-women-why-do-so-few-people-care/

Halley, April (October 2, 2019). The Correctional Service of Canada is Engaging in a Misogynist Social Experiment. http://aprilhalley.com/2019/10/the-correctional-service-of-canada-is-engaging-in-a-misogynist-social-experiment/ [archive]

Halley, April (September 27, 2019). Statistics Canada Should be Declared Legally Incompetent. http://aprilhalley.com/2019/09/statistics-canada-should-be-declared-legally-incompetent/ [archive]

Halley, April (September 5, 2019). Statistics Canada is No Longer Recording the Sex of Criminals and They Have Not Bothered to Inform the Public. http://aprilhalley.com/2019/09/statistics-canada-is-no-longer-recording-the-sex-of-criminals-and-they-have-not-bothered-to-inform-the-public/ [archive]

Halley, April (September 2019). Form Letter for Statistics Canada. http://aprilhalley.com/2019/09/form-letter-for-statistics-canada/ [archive]

Halley, April (August 27, 2019). The Ontario Provincial Police are Recording Male Crime as Female Crime. http://aprilhalley.com/2019/08/the-ontario-provincial-police-is-recording-male-crime-as-female-crime/ [archive]

Halley, April (July 26, 2019). The CBC are as Corrupt as Crime Statistics in Canada. http://aprilhalley.com/2019/07/the-cbc-are-as-corrupt-as-crime-statistics-in-canada/ [archive]

Halley, April (July 3, 2019). Welcome to the Upside Down. http://aprilhalley.com/2019/07/welcome-to-the-upside-down/ [archive]

Media

Women’s Declaration International with April Halley, Suzanne Forbes-Vierling, Thulasi Muttulingam, Yeye Luisah Teish (June 10, 2021). April Halley, Canadian writer on the situation of gender ID in Canada. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TZLyWov_d0

Women’s Liberation Front with Jennifer Chavez, Heather Mason, and April Halley (August 28, 2020). Women Speak! Should Men be Allowed in Women’s Prisons? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI9wbaCJXKE

Resources

April Halley (aprilhalley.com) [2019–2020 – archive]

Muck Rack (muckrack.com)

Spiked (spiked-online.com)

Quillette (quillette.com)

X/Twitter (x.com)

LinkedIn (linkedin.com)

Bio Link (bio.link)