A thin line of police and a wide chasm of thought separated participants at Wednesday\u0027s marches for and against trans rights.
Activate your Online Access NowThat People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier was there on the side of the protesters, while NDP leader Jagmeet Singh took up with the counterprotesters might give you an idea of the chasm between the two groups, a canyon far wider than the few lanes of Wellington Street and the thin line of police that physically separated them.It was evident elsewhere, too.
Another protester gladly and loudly shared a brief exchange she’d just had with an unsympathetic passerby. “The woman wearing a mask is calling me an idiot!” she shouted to everyone around here. “Oh, that is rich!” In speaking with some of the protesters, though, I got the sense that the school issue was more of a convenient place to hang their discomfort with gender fluidity.
On the other side of Wellington, a transgender counterprotester told me she felt “shitty.” “I just want to exist, and these people don’t want me to exist.”
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