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Celeste Trianon @celeste.lgbt · 13h

This is my antifa membership card.

A framed copy of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

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GenderQueeries 🇨🇦 @genderqueeries.ca · 11h

This afternoon, OneBC Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream MLA Tara Armstrong invited Billboard Chris to the BC Legislature.

This appears to be retaliation after the legislature voted to condemn the Association for Reformed Political Action for their bigoted views.

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TransParent OK 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @transparentokanagan.ca · 11h

“this is another sad day in the B.C. legislature when conservative politicians are trying to dictate what parents should be doing and decisions they should be making with love and support for their children, and we're picking on vulnerable children”

Thank you @nikisharma.bsky.social 🙏🏳️‍⚧️💕

Kelowna MLA's bill that would have stopped doctors from providing puberty blockers defeated - BC News

A British Columbia private member's bill tabled by a Kelowna MLA that would have given parents the right to sue doctors up to 25 years after they provided care for transgender children has been voted ...

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 1d

I am glad to read the head of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association supporting me and taking a stand for academic freedom!

Opinion: U of A's response to Charlie Kirk comments erodes academic freedom

This case cannot be separated from the broader landscape of academic freedom currently under strain in Canada and beyond.

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Dr. Kristopher Wells @drkristopherwells.bsky.social · 1d

Sign the new House of Commons e-petition calling on the Government of Canada to strengthen protections for LGBTQ+ people worldwide and reaffirm Canada’s role as a safe haven.

Thank you to MP Rob Oliphant for sponsoring this important petition.

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

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TransParent OK 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @transparentokanagan.ca · 1d

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No Context BC Gov @nocontextbcgov.bsky.social · 1d

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TransParent OK 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @transparentokanagan.ca · 2d

Agreed.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 2d

I went through conversion therapy.

I hate that name. It's not therapeutic. And it's not that it doesn't work. I hate when people say that, because "doesn't work" implies a placebo. Conversion therapy isn't.

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TransParent OK 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @transparentokanagan.ca · 2d

TIL last year a small southern US publisher took control of most of British Columbia’s community newspapers. The behaviour outlined in this article is deeply unethical and should concern anyone who reads (or writes for) Black Press, including Kelowna Capital News.

The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 2d

The resignations, which include two editors and two reporters based in Homer and Kenai, were scheduled to take effect in two weeks, but managers at Carpenter Media Group fired all four immediately.

James Brooks reports. An Alaska Beacon reprint. #CdnMedia #uspoli

BC Paper Owner Sparks Mass Resignation Over Charlie Kirk Story Intervention | The Tyee

Alaskan journalists quit after Carpenter Media execs unilaterally changed an article about a vigil for the far-right activist.

thetyee.ca

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 4d

The strongest allies are not always in your face. Often they are quietly working behind the scenes with little to no recognition.

The test of a true ally is not only what people say and do when everybody is looking but also what they say and do with few people looking.

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 4d

the people who told us to calm down because Roe was settled law are the same people now telling us to calm down because the military would never open fire on Americans

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 5d

Here is the speech I gave at University of Regina on the disinformation storm that is coming and MAGA's attack on education.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmMl...

MAGA'S WAR ON EDUCATION

YouTube video by Charlie Angus

www.youtube.com

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 5d

Major victory in Kansas for transgender people.

The Kansas Supreme Court declined to block a lower court ruling on gender markers on drivers license.

ACLU Kansas says trans people can get their licenses updated starting Tuesday.

The latest from S. Baum.

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Kansas Supreme Court Delivers Big Win For Driver’s License Gender Markers

“I want every transgender Kansan to be able to live their lives authentically.”

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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 6d

Some academics and administrators are brave in the face of fascism.

Some are not.

Some are complicit.

Some are apologists.

It's not that hard to tell them apart.

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Canadian Resistance 🇨🇦 @cdnresistance.bsky.social · 7d

It would be better for Canadians (and others) not to travel to the United States at all.

Canada issues warning for citizens with gender-neutral passports travelling to U.S. | CBC News

The Canadian government is warning citizens who list "X" as their gender on their passports could have problems entering the U.S.

www.cbc.ca

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Jack Turban MD @turban.bsky.social · 7d

A message from @aoc.bsky.social to #trans kids in America. ❤️

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Dr. Kristopher Wells @drkristopherwells.bsky.social · 7d

As my colleague @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social has suggested, this is another compelling example of why we need our own Made in Canada trusted traveller program.

Elizabeth Thompson @lizt1.bsky.social · 7d

The Canadian government has updated its travel advisory for the U.S., warning that those who have X listed as their gender on their passports could have problems at the border. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Canada issues new warning for citizens with gender-neutral passports travelling to U.S. | CBC News

The Canadian government is warning citizens who list "X" as their gender on their passports could have problems entering the U.S.

www.cbc.ca

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Webvixen @webvixen.bsky.social · 8d

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Dr. Kristopher Wells @drkristopherwells.bsky.social · 7d

Today, I asked the Government Representative in the Senate of Canada about how the Federal Government will protect the Charter rights of 2SLGBTQI+ Albertans in the face of the Government of Alberta threatening to use the Notwithstanding clause to violate their human rights. #cdnpoli

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TransParent OK 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @transparentokanagan.ca · 9d

barabra findlay would be great for this. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara...

barbara findlay - Wikipedia

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TransParent OK 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @transparentokanagan.ca · 9d

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 9d

"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."

What Happened to the University’s Commitment to Free Expression? Charley Kirk, uAlberta, and Me | Centre for Free Expression

I was shocked when the University of Alberta administration informed me, one of its law professors, that I was being placed on non-disciplinary leave for my social media comments in the wake of Charli...

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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 9d

UK's Labour Party Abandoned Trans People. Here's What American Dems Can Learn.

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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

UK's Labour Party Abandoned Trans People. Here's What American Dems Can Learn.

Democrats: There is no “middle ground” on equal rights. Take it from UK Labour.

www.erininthemorning.com

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🐘 @[email protected] @robin.riley.pub · 13d

Part of the art of community organizing is knowing when to let one's self be organized by the community.

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TransParent OK 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @transparentokanagan.ca · 13d

Danielle Smith is lying. Puberty blockers are fully reversible and their use is supported by the Canadian Medical Association, the Cdn Pediatric Society, & all prov medical associations. No one stays on them forever and when they stop taking them, puberty resumes. Those are the facts.

cm 🇨🇦 @cmcalgary.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you to whichever reporter confronted her about the lying. Need more of this.

Via CTV Edmonton on TikTok

vt.tiktok.com/ZSD4Qt9eG/

#Alberta #abpoli

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