Sonya Barss
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
John Francis@Paulatics maybe you should've. Or... maybe not.
Sometimes it needs to be very lonely to insist on bad ideas. Not every bad idea should have a champion.
Brett Kosinski@Paulatics Alas we witnessed the same thing in Edmonton. If it is indeed a deliberate strategy, it seems to be paying dividends.
MikeSaul
Pamela Keetch 
@Paulatics It will be a ".... then they came for me" ending.
KimberlyN This whole transphobia situation is starting to give me “satanic panic” vibes…
Mercurius Goldstein
TJ Radcliffe@Paulatics Historically, Islam has always had a significant appeal to the far right. While it might not in the US, Canada is not the US. So my expectation is that this alliance will have considerable staying power, and your argument will fall on deaf ears. The far right does not use the kind of ideological litmus tests that are so destructive to solidarity on the left: it is united against the modern world, the Enlightenment, & much more, and will ally with anyone opposed to them for any reason.
@tjradcliffe A sharp analysis.
Herb v/d Dool@Paulatics @tjradcliffe I insightful. If only the groups on the left could find common cause and put aside the differences to fight against these bigger problems. I've finished reading Rorty's Achieving our Country where he saw many of these things growing even in the 1990s, the rise of fascist groups, splits on the left, but also pointed back to an era when a coalition on the left could make a difference.
@herbdool @Paulatics The most extreme case of fracture on the left leading to victory on the right was in Germany in the early '30s, when the SDP and the Bolsheviks (both Marxist parties in those days) couldn't make common cause against the NSDAP: they literally hated each other more than they hated the NAZIs. Left-wing solidarity is sadly more of a myth than a reality, because too often leftists look like what Orwell was warning us against: seekers of power for its own sake, cloaked in moralism
M Schommer@musevg @Paulatics I take your point, but I was thinking specifically of Hitler, who was extremely enamored of Islam in particular, and not other religions (although there was a NAZI offshoot tied to radical Hinduism and obviously fascism is very popular among Christians today). The nice thing about this bit of history is that Muslims were a lot less enthusiastic about NAZIism than NAZIs were about Islam. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674724600&content=reviews
Islam and Nazi Germany’s War — David Motadel
With troops fighting in regions populated by Muslims from the Sahara to the Caucasus, Nazi officials saw Islam as a powerful force with the same enemies as Germany: the British Empire, the Soviet Union, and the Jews. David Motadel provides the first comprehensive account of Berlin's ambitious attempts to build an alliance with the Islamic world.
LegalQuilts@tjradcliffe @Paulatics In my county, the local Islam leaders have allied with the book banners to get rid of LGBQT books. So its happening in the US too. They don't get that the book banners are welcoming them with one side of their mouth and denouncing "terrorists" with the other.
@legalquilts @tjradcliffe Exactly. The face-eating jaguars are going to be busy.
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.
Sharin' Sharon@Paulatics Thank you, Senator Simons. We need more voices from The Hill that echo your wise, unbiased sentiments.
Mr. Bill@Paulatics I understand you are not in a position to do anything resembling substantial debate, but "don't listen to those guys, whatever they say is worse than what I offer" is a very depressingly utilitarian position to be in
Doug 🌈🇨🇦 
@Paulatics making things up in order to discriminate against a minority is racist bigotry no matter who the victim is. Every person who participated in this demonstration is a racist bigot looking for a socially acceptable victim, including all the politicians. This is also what the Nazis did before murdering whole segments of society.
Gordon J Holtslander@Paulatics Andrew Scheer was the only CPC MP to attend the debate on Indian interference issue. That this issue was used as a political party sanctioned “stunt” should worry Canadians
Debbie Belair@Paulatics people in this country are very prejudiced and homophonic because they are uneducated and have zero social IQs.
sloot#TransRightsAreHumanRights
Saw the same thing at the protests in Westboro in the spring. The Right will turn on them the minute it suits them.
Kevin Karhan 
@Paulatics OFC "divide and conquer" works very well...
Solarbird 
@Paulatics Yes. That's been their modus operandi for decades. It's exactly what they do.