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The boy told the court he felt “as if my dad is going behind my back” and that his father was “associated with groups that hate trans people.”

“I love my father I want to have his name as my middle name. … But I cannot be around him unless he respects who I am and my gender identity. It messes with my head and I cannot stand his berating me all the time.”

The father argued his public commentary was essential to society and his rights as a parent. He said the case has turned into a dispute not with his child but with “activists” who want to take away his rights.

Those arguments didn’t fly with B.C. Supreme Court Justice Francesca Marzari.

Even though the father kept his child’s identity anonymous in his public comments, his conduct still put the child at high risk of exposure, violence, bullying and harassment, the judge found.

Marzari noted that the father’s public sharing of information about the case had exposed his child to “degrading and violent” public commentary and that the father was essentially using his child to “promote his own interests above those of his child.”

“While I accept that (the father) does not agree with (the child) as to what is in (the child’s) best interests, he has been irresponsible in the manner of expressing his disagreement and the degree of publicity which he has fostered with respect to this disagreement with his child,” Marzari said.

So what you need is, you know what? Pull a stunt. Suicide, every time, they will give you what you need

The judge’s protection order restrained the father from sharing any information related to his child’s sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, mental or physical health — except with his lawyers, the court or medical professionals. He was also forbidden from trying to persuade his child to abandon treatment and from addressing his child by his birth name or referring to him as a girl.