Executive Director of @QueerMomentum. Trans woman. Organizing for freedom, equality and rights for queer people in Canada and beyond. she/they.
Jul 14, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
TEACHING STUDENTS ABOUT DIVERSE FAMILIES AND QUEER PEOPLE IS NOT GROOMING.
The far right is lying to you. They are spinning a false narrative about what is happening in our schools.
No one is trying to convert anyone, but queer kids are still being bullied in our schools.
I am so tired of this debate. I am so tired of dishonest, hate-motivated bigots being given legitimacy.
These people have opposed every effort to make schools safer for queer kids. Because they don’t want there to be queer kids.
TERF and Gender Critical both describe groups motivated by a hatred, disgust, and/or hostility to trans people’s very humanity and inherent dignity.
They do not speak for feminists. They do not speak for women. They are opposed to our basic rights and very existence.
Jun 13, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
“Girl, 9, accused of being trans at Kelowna track meet”
This is where anti-trans hate leads. It is an attack on all forms of gender non-conformity, ending in the re-imposition of regressive gender norms and threatening progress on women’s rights. castanet.net/news/Kelowna/4…
“Star said the man's wife then started calling her "a genital mutilator, a groomer, and a pedophile."”
“Star says the man then carried on to demand certification to prove that her daughter was born female.”
Is this the world we want to live in?
Apr 17, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Transness is but the latest issue in the crosshairs of an extreme social conservative movement desperate to retain its grip on the hearts and minds of people around the world.
Updated rhetoric aside, these are the same groups that sought to stop same sex marriage. They’re the same groups that oppose reproductive rights.
They’re coming for trans people but we’re just the latest wedge they’re hoping to exploit.
Mar 15, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
TERFs and Gender Criticals frame all the hate trans folk receive as “legitimate” criticism from women “concerned about the erosion of “sex-based rights”.
What they’re really doing is acting as a smokescreen for far right extremism.
Most of the hate I’ve received in the last 2 weeks has been from far right groups, not from TERFs. But TERFs make it all about themselves while pretending the far right doesn’t exist / isn’t pushing for the eradication of trans people from public life.
Mar 14, 2023 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
For the last week, I’ve had my twitter locked while I made sure I was safe and cared for myself. But now, I want to tell you what it’s like to have the entire force of the anti-trans ecosystem pointed directly at you.
TW: transphobia, transmisogyny and hate & threats
Since early March, I’ve been bombarded with thousands of hateful tweets, DMs & emails
I've been called a tr*nny, groomer, pedophile & f*g. Encouraged to suicide & more
All for being a trans woman in a Canadian ad campaign to uplift women & girls for #InternationalWomensDay2023
Mar 14, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Since I deleted all my past tweets (for privacy reasons), I figured its time to do a quick “who am I and what do I do” thread for the new folks. So here goes 👇🏻
I am a 27yo trans woman living on unceded Algonquin territory (Ottawa).
I am a co-owner of a small business (@Wisdom2Action) and a loud and proud 2SLGBTQIA+ & feminist activist.
