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| Subject: BC’s Increasing Anti-SOGI Bandwagon Thu May 30, 2019 2:15 am | |
| Foes of teaching inclusive sexual identity now include a transgender man guarded by Soldiers of Odin, and other alt-righters.
Dressed in a long blonde wig, black skirt with its hem cut below the knee, fringed leather jacket, and jewellery that included a large crucifix, transgender speaker Jenn Smith arrived on a sunny evening in early May to give a talk in Greater Victoria.
It was Smith’s fourth presentation on Vancouver Island of “The Erosion of Freedom: How Transgender Politics in School and Society is Undermining Our Freedom and Harming Women and Children.” At each appearance, opposition had grown, and there had been an unsuccessful effort to get Oak Bay to cancel the event before it began.
With hundreds of protesters lining the path to the venue in a municipal park, Smith walked in flanked by four beefy-looking men. Word soon spread, later confirmed by Smith, that they included members of the Soldiers of Odin, an anti-immigrant group founded in Finland.
It left many wondering what was going on. Why would a group with reportedly neo-Nazi connections and sympathies find common cause with a self-identified transgender speaker?
More: https://thetyee.ca/News/2019/05/28/Anti-SOGI-Speaker-Attracts-Dubious-Company/ |
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