Pride Month is upon us. What was once a protest demanding an end to discrimination against gays and lesbians has morphed into a state-mandated celebration of gender ideology. And much like the facehugger from Alien, it is now inescapable.

In Canada, displaying the rainbow flag is no longer optional, it’s effectively mandatory. Public schools, for instance, have Pride displays in their libraries, where kids can read books like Seeing Gender: An Illustrated Guide to Identity and Expression and Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen.

Seeing Gender teaches kids they can alleviate their problems ‘by socially transitioning (changing pronouns or name), changing style, or physically changing through surgery or hormones’. Being Jazz is a children’s picture book co-written by American reality-TV star Jazz Jennings, who transitioned as a child. He has undergone four ‘sex reassignment’ surgeries and has suffered painful complications with each. Today, the 22-year-old struggles with eating disorders and depression, and will likely never experience sexual pleasure or be able to have children. His tragic story should serve as a warning, but instead the adults in charge are celebrating the destruction of this young person’s body and life. They are selling these medical interventions as ‘solutions’ to the perfectly natural feelings of confusion and discomfort experienced by many young people as they enter puberty and their bodies change.