VANCOUVER — Fae Johnstone says “nothing ever could have prepared” her for the barrage of online harassment she endured after being featured in an International…
“Many people and the LGBTQ community, for various reasons, will not feel safe to go to the police to disclose hate crimes,” he said, citing lack of trust in police.
“All of this comes together to increase the prevalence of hate and harassment in trans and queer people’s everyday lives from greater scrutiny of gender nonconformity and gender diversity, just like what we saw in Kelowna recently with slurs and hate directed at a young cis-girl for having a pixie haircut of all things,” she said.Article content
Starr said she believes anti-LGBTQ rhetoric online “emboldened folks in the anti-queer community to the point that they feel as though they have every right to interfere with events such as the track and field event.”Article content“What decision makers aren’t doing very well is trying to understand and address what is happening online because it definitely is having real-world impacts, which makes it much scarier to be out and loud as queer and trans people,” she said.
“We need to ensure that trans folks in particular have access to the health resources that they need to be well and be safe and be supported,” Kennell said. Hansman, a gay man and teacher, called Neufeld’s views bigoted, transphobic and hateful, after Neufeld said on Facebook that allowing children to “choose to change gender is nothing short of child abuse.”
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