Marni Panas, a trans activist based in Edmonton, says her heart broke when she saw news of Tuesday’s mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., that left nine people dead, including the suspect, and 27 injured.
Later, when rumours started to percolate that the suspect in the shooting was a transgender woman, Panas watched what she says has become a predictable pattern emerge online. Within minutes, she says some people began to leverage the tragedy to “advance hate” against the trans community.
Tara Armstrong, an Independent MLA who represents Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream, made several social media posts Wednesday about what she called transgender ideology, saying it is “radicalizing youth, and unlocking violent impulses.”
“There is an epidemic of transgender violence spreading across the West,” she wrote on X.
Because people (probably the same fuckos that push anti-trans stuff) come out to do shit like ‘not all men’ or ‘it’s not time to be political’ or ‘think of the guns!’