Category: Trans Rights
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Transphobia in the National Post
The National Post publishes articles with titles such as “How trans activists are unethically influencing autistic children to change genders“, “Pronouns are ruining the best thing about hockey” and “Are zee ready for the dictatorship of the gender warriors?” The newspaper has published at least 131 opinion pieces that normalize the rejection of trans and…
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The Canadian media’s targeted harassment of queer and trans individuals
Jessica Yaniv was refused service at over a dozen beauty salons in B.C. because she is trans: [Yaniv] says many of the estheticians advertised themselves as offering arm, leg, and pubic hair waxing for either male or female customers. However, when Yaniv informed them she was transgender she says she was suddenly refused appointments outright,…
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Nationalist groups and the intimidation of gender and sexual minorities in Canada
This article has been updated to include events of the summer. Since the late nineties, organized antagonists of gender and sexual minorities were largely Christians or affiliated with major conservative political parties. The dynamics have changed. In the past few years, there’s been a rise of nationalist groups across Canada and they have been inserting…
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Conservatives are rewriting history instead of facing it
June is Pride month, and both federal conservative leaders in Canada and the US have used this as an opportunity to claim support for LGBT/LGBTQ people. The spokesman for Conservative leader Andrew Scheer stated this week: “Canada’s Conservatives have a proud history of fighting for the rights and protection of all Canadians, including those in…
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Shifting away from queer & trans advocacy
Ten years ago, I wrote a blog post where I talked about my focus shifting to queer and trans issues. I was ignorant at the time, and spent the next decade unlearning, and growing. I’ve reached another inflection point in my life where I’m exhausted and am now stepping away from this work. I wrote…
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Transition, Six Years Later.
Content Warning: This article mentions a previous way of thinking that conflates androgynous trans men and cis butch women. It also details transphobic harassment. My transition started as the cumulation of little changes that eventually became something. There isn’t a definite start. I didn’t like what puberty did to my genitals, which hit me the…
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Common Spaces
I walked around my place, unsure what to do. My contract had ended unexpectedly right before Christmas. It was about the worst time to look for work, and I had surgery in two months further complicating the job search. I immediately went to Halifax. Never been. Always wanted to go. A friend met me there…
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Emergent Traits in Trans Activism
This is a short article in which I want to note two emergent traits I have observed in trans activism. The traits can be summarized as such: An entitlement by privileged trans people co-opting the hardships of others A framing of trans rights as only being about gender identity An entitlement by privileged trans people…
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List of Anti-Trans Scientific-Sounding Evidence
While there are thousands of peer reviewed articles and a multitude of medical organisations that support the acceptance of trans people, there are also a handful of articles and medical professionals that are in opposition. Yet this handful is over-represented in newspapers and television. After hearing mental health professionals inquire about both the Swedish Study and Rapid Onset…
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Trans people according to the National Post
The National Post is one of two leading national newspapers in Canada. From 2011 to 2018, the National Post has released at least sixty editorials advocating against the acceptance of trans people. Most of these date from after 2014. So I thought I would paint a picture of trans people, as depicted by the National…