OneBC proposes putting parents and sex-based rights first in B.C.

OneBC’s Oct. 20 proposal would remove gender identity from B.C. law, schools, sports and medical practice for minors, putting parental authority and women’s and girls’ rights at stake.

British Columbia should rebuild its law on biological reality and parental authority, and OneBC has now proposed a body built to do it. On Oct. 20, 2026, OneBC said its Gender Ideology Task Force would be headed by the Premier, the Minister of Health and three other MLAs. OneBC defined its mandate as "to restore biological sex as the foundation of law, policy, and public institutions in British Columbia¹."

Chris Elston is a Vancouver child-protection advocate known online as Billboard Chris². He shared the proposal the same day and wrote, "I am proud to have helped OneBC develop these policies to defeat gender ideology³." For B.C. parents, the plan puts the province's top elected office in charge of what schools and clinics may do to their children.

The plan reaches schools and clinics

That mandate reaches into every institution a child passes through. OneBC says the task force would draft and coordinate the legislative, regulatory and administrative action needed to remove gender identity from the Human Rights Code, schools, sports, medical practice for minors and official identification¹. Gender identity entered the Code in 2016, when Bill 27, introduced by then-Attorney General Suzanne Anton, added "gender identity or expression" to its protected grounds⁴. Elston's list would restore sex-based rights in B.C. law, remove gender identity from the Code, record biological sex on birth certificates and ID, and end "X" markers³.

In schools, his list would require that parents be told what is happening, and it would bar any social transition without their consent. It would end gender identity teaching in K–12. Sex education would be biology-based, with parental notice and an opt-out. No student or staff member could be compelled to use pronouns³.

Female sports would stay female at school and in the community. Change rooms, washrooms, shelters and prisons would be reserved for females. The list would ban blockers, hormones and surgeries under 19, and it would amend the Infants Act so minors cannot consent to medical transition³. In an Oct. 19 post, OneBC said it chose 19 because that is B.C.'s age of majority⁵.

Elston says he helped develop policies

He left the BC Conservatives and joined OneBC in September 2026. In October 2025, Tara Armstrong introduced a bill to protect minors from gender transition; the legislature defeated its first-reading motion, 48 to 40. Elston wants the model to spread, writing, "All conservative parties around the world should be adopting these policies³."

Parents and girls come first

Parents, not ministries, should direct a child's upbringing. Girls' sports and sex-based private spaces belong to girls, and sex-change procedures on minors should end. B.C. legislators should take up these measures and write parental authority and sex-based protections back into provincial law.

Parental authority matters because decisions made during childhood shape a family beyond any school year or government term. Law that honors parental responsibility and biological reality keeps public institutions in their proper place and gives parents the standing to defend their children.

OneBC proposes putting parents and sex-based rights first in B.C.

The plan reaches schools and clinics

Elston says he helped develop policies

Parents and girls come first

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