Senator Paula Simons🇨🇦Last week, I had lunch with a political acquaintance, who told me right-wing parties in this country are using transphobia as a wedge issue - going into mosques and gurdwaras and temples, to "warn" parents there that trans activists are going to exploit and seduce their children. I wasn't sure whether to believe that. And then I saw how very many young Muslim women with children were part of the anti-trans protest in Ottawa today. The wedge seems to be working, alas. #TransRightsAreHumanRights
I wanted to go up to those young Muslim mums at the anti-trans rally on Parliament Hill today - to explain that these right-wing transphobes are NOT their friends, that many of them probably dislike Muslim women in hijabs almost as much as they dislike queer/LGBQT people. I know politics makes strange bedfellows. But if we don't stand together to protect each other's rights - even when we disagree - then we stand nowhere. #cdnpoli #Ottawa #yow #TransRightsAreHumanRights
Ω 🌍 Gus Posey@Paulatics They're bigots. Why do you want to stand with them?
@Gustodon I work hard to be an ally for my LGBQT friends and relations - and to fight for the civil rights of all Canadians. I was proud to stand outside the Supreme Court, site of the landmark Vriend decision, to take a stance for trans Canadians today.