A Canadian trans-identified male is calling for citizens to throw bricks at people putting up allegedly “anti-trans” stickers in his community.
In a public Facebook post, the trans-identified male in James Bay, British Columbia called on neighbours to join him in street patrols to find “anti-trans stickers.” The man includes a photo of himself wearing a “Protect Trans Kids” T-shirt emblazoned with a knife. His post reads: “Clearly, we still live in a war zone and need to be picking up bricks again… the bricks are a reference to Stonewall riots. People had to throw bricks once and I guess we might start having to do it again if people don’t start being real allies instead of real enemies.”
The public post has been up for five days, and includes an update from the author, who says he “levelled up [his] high kick practice while [he] was out.” As for the stickers, no photos or examples are provided. In one comment on the post, he describes a “green squarish sort of sticker with trans and queer hate and a QR code.”
This is happening during Pride Month, when our politicians are busy framing the members of “LGBTQ2S+” community in Canada as holy victims of unending hate crimes. For instance, Prime Minister Trudeau offered CAD $1.5 million in additional funding for Pride Parade security. And Jagmeet Singh, the leader of Canada’s New Democratic Party, praised a member of parliament caught lying about being punched in the face “for queer and trans youth.” In reality, the politician joined a counter-protest against parents questioning the sexual orientation and gender identity education given to their children in public schools—and he inflicted the injury upon himself, on video, while using a megaphone.
As for the notion that Canada is somehow unsafe or dangerous for the LGBTQ community, you can find our country repeatedly ranked as the most LGBTQ friendly country on earth. This doesn’t stop leaders such as Singh from insisting that “[g]overnments must step up to protect the queer and trans community” from “angry and hateful extremists.”
Canada does have an extremism problem, but it’s not where our leaders think it is. The extremists in our country are the ones forcing gender ideology into every facet of our lives, from women’s spaces to our children’s education. And if we have a problem with government and educators forcing us to accept males in women’s spaces or forcing our children to take harmful and irreversible medical treatments against our will, we are being told that we are the extremists.
I can confidently say that Canadians, myself included, who share legitimate concerns about the impact of gender ideology on the safety, dignity, and privacy of women and children are not the ones threatening to throw bricks. We are not the ones protesting moderate voices and feminist speakers with mock guillotines. We are not the ones publicly stating that we hope our detractors die in a grease fire. We do not receive government funding to attack our political opponents. Nor do we wield the power to weaponize government institutions to engage in years-long witch hunts against those whom we disagree with.
If you want to locate a real extremist in Canada, odds are that you can find them snuggling under a Pride flag, nestled at the government’s teat.
