https://www.city-journal.org/canadian-father-jailed-for-speaking-out-about-trans-identifying-child
Soon after Bowden’s ruling, A.B. began gender-transition treatment,
but Hoogland persevered with his legal fight. In violation of Bowden’s
order, he also spoke in public and gave interviews about the case. In
April 2019, in response to an application by A.B., Judge Francesca
Marzari tried
to quell these public appearances. Noting that there had been
“substantial online commentary [i.e., reader comments on articles about
the case] analogizing A.B.’s medical treatment to child abuse,
perversion and even pedophilia,” and that A.B.’s doctors had allegedly
received threatening emails, Marzari ordered Hoogland to stop trying to
talk A.B. out of receiving treatment for gender dysphoria and to stop
communicating with others—including media outlets, and A.B. herself, but
excluding his lawyers, the court, doctors, and other authorized
persons—about A.B.’s decision to receive hormone therapy.
Instead of recognizing that Hoogland was acting out of concern for
his child, Marzari painted him as a selfish bigot. His conduct, she
wrote, was causing A.B. “a significant risk of harm.” He was “publicly
rejecting his [A.B.’s] identity, perpetuating stories that reject his
identity, and exposing him to degrading and violent commentary in social
media.” Marzari adduced no evidence to support any of these assertions.
That said, Hoogland, added Marzari, “has been irresponsible in the
manner of expressing his disagreement [with A.B.’s decision] and the
degree of publicity which he has fostered with respect to this
disagreement with his child.” Marzari also seconded Bowden’s description
of Hoogland’s “rejection of A.B.’s gender identity” as “family
violence.”
