Anna Murphy receives so many death threats, she's become friends with the Calgary police officer she reports them to.
As a transgender woman in the public eye, she's subjected to an avalanche of hate — one that she and other community members and experts say has intensified in recent years, underscoring the need for protest alongside celebration during Pride.
But despite the support she receives, Murphy, who is a community organizer, says the constant stream of vitriol is exhausting. There's been a similar uptick in hate crimes targeting people for their sexual orientation: in 2021 there were 423 reported incidents, compared to 176 in 2016, StatCan data show.
Just this week, a man at a school track meet in Kelowna, B.C., made headlines for wrongly suggesting a nine-year-old girl was transgender and demanding proof she was born biologically female. The girl's mother says a woman who was with the man accused her of being a groomer and "genital mutilator.
Police were on scene, keeping the anti-drag protesters away from the library entrance. Behind the officers, a larger group of counter-protesters formed what they described as a human barrier to protect the event. Having been on the front lines of Toronto's bath house raids in the 1980s, Kinsman says these protests have echoes of bigotry past.
That demographic wants the state to adhere to their reading of Bible's teachings about gender, Travers says: that there are only men and women, that biological sex and gender are the same, that sex should only happen in the confines of marriage and that a marriage should be between two people of opposite genders.
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