Gender-affirming care: Concern over messages in flyers delivered to N.B. households – New Brunswick [Video]

There is concern among some New Brunswickers after flyers were sent to households that compared gender-affirming care to “surgical mutilation.”

The flyers were mailed out by Coalition Life Campaign, an Ontario-based group that describes itself as a “national pro-life organization” on its website.

Moncton resident, Myles Botten, was among those who received the mail and said he felt “disgusted” when he saw it.

“I was looking for a package that a friend had sent me. Instead, I found this flyer that really kind of soiled the mood,” Botten said.

The flyer reads in part that “pushing transgenderism in school harms children” and makes several claims about the use of puberty blockers,

Queer advocacy group, AlterAcadie, says it received several messages from New Brunswickers who were concerned about the flyer.

“It’s blatant disinformation and harmful messages that put youth in danger,” the group’s executive director, Alex Arseneau, told Global News.

“The …