Conservatives reject push to oppose ban limiting counseling for gender-dysphoric minors
Delegates narrowly rejected a controversial policy resolution that would have made it official party policy to affirm parents' rights to seek "body-affirming talk therapy" for children struggling with gender identity.
On Monday's live stream, Sheila Gunn Reid and Lise Merle reacted to Conservative delegates rejecting a motion to oppose a federal ban on so-called 'conversion therapy', which criminalizes efforts to change sexual orientation or gender identity.
Supporters of the resolution argued it protected parental rights and allowed non-coercive, non-medical therapy, while critics saw it as an attempt to undermine the ban and revive discredited practices.
The proposal received a slim majority of about 52% support from delegates, but failed due to the party's "double majority" rule requiring majorities in both overall votes and more than half of provinces and territories.
This is the policy resolution that @KronisTamara and the Conservative Party voted down.
— Billboard Chris 🌎 (@BillboardChris) February 1, 2026
It needed a total majority and a majority of provinces and territories.
Beyond reprehensible that it failed.
Every single ‘Conservative’ MP should sit down with detransitioners who have… pic.twitter.com/JiLlvHSXQP
Sheila commented on the controversial resolution that was ultimately voted down at the Conservative Party's convention in Calgary over the weekend.
"Of course nobody agrees with taking your kid to a therapist and asking them to change their sexual orientation, like to forcibly take someone and send them off to a camp to make them straight, I don't think that's a thing that happens really," she said.
"But what does happen is you might want to take your kid who's struggling with gender dysphoria because of some horrible influence of some blue-haired teacher, that you should be able to take them to a psychologist like Jordan Peterson or your priest ... to say like no, maybe this is just something that you will resolve as you go through puberty, as you allow the natural process to take place instead of putting you on hormones that block puberty and thus make that dysphoria worse," Sheila continued.
The policy proposal was one of the few defeated at the Calgary convention, while other resolutions on topics like crime and self-defence passed with stronger support.
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COMMENTS
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Bruce Atchison commented 2026-02-03 19:27:14 -0500Just shows that the CPC is still out of phase with its base. Many conservatives don’t want their children sterilized and fed a poisonous mind virus. Pierre Poilievre must get a spine and realize that the CBC and the rest of the regime media hate him. Nothing he’ll do will please those vicious leftists. Those types are never satisfied. And normal people outnumber those freaks on the left.
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Bernhard Jatzeck commented 2026-02-03 17:19:57 -0500It appears that the Conservative Party has shown that it has principles—just not the ones I would have expected. -
Daniel Dillon commented 2026-02-03 16:01:51 -0500Hi Sheila. That title has 4 negatives in it (the 4th being ‘gender-dysphoric’—a pathology, therefore ‘negative’). I am above average intellect and after reading it 4 times, I gave up. Clean it up or get someone to proof your titles. Keep up the excellent work fighting for our freedom.
