From Hopeful to Hoping to “I have Hope!”
By Kellie Lynn Pirie of DeTrans Alliance, Canada
Hope! If anyone were to ask me to pick one word to describe the zeitgeist when I left Alberta, it would be hope.
On the afternoon of Sunday October 27th, I departed Langley BC heading for Alberta. I thought I knew what I would be facing. I was driving twelve hundred kilometres to Edmonton, straight into the heart of radical trans-queer’s prairie division headquarters. As a member of a growing collective of gender critical Canadians willing to risk everything to stand up and speak “No” to transitioning children without parental involvement and consent, I was enroute to the Alberta Legislature to witness the introduction of the most reality-affirming legislation ever presented in Prime Minister Trudeau’s Trans-Canada. I did not have a clue how things would turn out.
On the morning of October 31, 2024, I was honored to participate in the events that culminated with the reading the of bills #26 (stop childhood transition), #27 (curtail SOGI 123), and #29 (keep female sports female) into the Alberta Legislature. Although I had gone simply to be a witness as events unfolded the role I played continually evolved. The road I traveled from being a seventh-grade drama class wash-out to a fifty-seven-year-old detransitioner eagerly anticipating an opportunity to publicly tell my story, is a complicated mess.
Shortly over two years earlier, on September 20, 2022, at the Million March event in Vernon BC, I told my story of transition regret for the first time. This initiated the formation of a complex web of delicately interrelated social connections culminating in my standing behind Premier Danielle Smith at her government’s press conference on the morning of October 31, 2024. After PM Smith introduced me, I stood and spoke about the road I traveled from being a twelve-year-old young woman entirely uncomfortable in my skin to metamorphosing into the mature woman I am today. In brief, I was born a girl, raised by a pedophile, grew to become a woman, fled femininity via hormones and surgery, regretted transitioning, detransitioned, eventually arriving at a deep knowing that being a woman is not a feeling.
Unable to challenge my decision to share my testimony in support of PM Smith and her government, radical trans-queer activists choose to defame my character. Trans-queer ally @theBreakdownAB on X questioned the appropriateness of my speaking given that my social media clearly reflected my conservative leaning political opinions. Anyone who passed a university level research ethics course should know that if you torture numbers long enough, they will confess to anything. I stated this understanding of research methods in my X bio “I follow the statistics. I do not believe in: The Science.”
Breakdown’s next series of attacks was against DeTrans Alliance Canada. These are quite humorous. Had Breakdown leveled this termination by character assassination barrage against a true believer instead of an excommunicated gender heretic, the outcome would have been quite different. Instead of contrite repentance, I completely embraced the truth of my apostacy openly revealing further heresies not available via any of my social media. It got ‘really good’ when Breakdown began to reference my postings from my decade as a specialized freight flat-deck long-haul truck driver. Completely flabbergasted that I supported the Freedom Convoy, Breakdown double downed the faux pas by failing to appreciate the extent to which truckers thrive on caffeine and conspiracy theories. Mind the gap here, because it got wide, Breakdown ended the thread by declaring: “But this isn’t bullying.” As a conservative Christian woman this public rebuking failed to chastise me. Where any member of the gender faithful would have recanted in true repentance, I turned to my X page and told readers my side of the gender blender meat grinder world.
The hypocrisy of the “true trans,” their allies and advocates played a pivotal role in shifting me from transition regretter to detransitioner. Listening to the extremes prescribed by gender-affirming healthcare proponents I became increasingly uncomfortable being associated with such a queer theory driven neo-religious movement. It was increasingly clear that radical trans-queer plus people intentionally sought to erase women, fracture children’s reality matrix, indoctrinate children, defend convicted sex offenders and fight to men to invade women’s sports and spaces. Notwithstanding everything radical trans-queer lobbyists claim in their heavy-handed attempts to bully detransitioners in to silence I am stunning and brave when voicing my belief that young people who crash and burn after flying high on gender euphoria, deserve a soft place to land. When these youth recognize the impossibility of becoming the opposite sex and become peacefully reconciled with their birth sex, they are worthy of acceptance, compassion, and understanding.
Standing in that media conference, looking at the faces of people from around Canada who had dedicated years of their lives, faced death threats, lost their: jobs, dreams, children, and careers…. Witnessing their tears and their smiles as they slowly shifted from hopeful, to hoping, to I have hope… It is my hope that I have witnessed the end of gender affirming healthcare, and the birth of reality-affirming care for gender non-conforming Canadians.
Kellie Lynn Pirie is the founder DeTrans Alliance Canada
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Image: Kellie Lynn Pirie (rt) with with Dr Ann Gillies