Category: Life

Once upon a time, I wrote about how I had habituated to the tiny decisions I made throughout the day as a gender non-conforming person to ensure my safety. I labeled what I endured as casual violence. Later on, I described how institutions like the Vancouver Public Library platforming anti-trans rhetoric contributed to making things less safe for me and I invoked the pyramid of hate to try to explain why.

With the news of the Ottawa Public Library deciding not to remove from its catalog Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing our Daughters, a book pressing parents to reject their gender non-conforming children, I thought I’d offer up a different way to explain how outcomes like this are harmful.

A few weeks ago anti-trans messages were put up around downtown. In response, local queer activists and the Ottawa Coalition to End Violence Against Women put up posters affirming that trans rights are indeed human rights.

These were repeatedly vandalized by residents of Ottawa over a number of days. I thought I’d do a gallery of the various ways these posters were defaced.

There’s a small group of people live off of harming trans people.

It can be lucrative. Jordan Peterson was making at least $55,000 a month for writing things like “[non-binary pronouns] are at the vanguard of a post-modern, radical leftist ideology that I detest, and which is, in my professional opinion, frighteningly similar to the Marxist doctrines that killed at least 100 million people in the 20th century.” Abigail Shrier got the #15 best selling book on Amazon for her book “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters“.

I call the Petersons and Shriers of the world anti-trans unicorns.

I’ve been doing queer & trans advocacy for over ten years. As I slowly make my exit from this part of my life, I thought I’d share some observations. Mostly dispelling misconceptions I inherited from media.