The rise in anti-transgender sentiment and hate crimes targeting people the LGBTQ2+ community is casting a shadow over Pride Month celebrations.
Anna Murphy receives so many death threats, she's become friends with the Calgary police officer she reports them to.
"As morbid as it is, we find a way to laugh about it. He finds a way to take the pressure and the fear away." In 2016 there were seven alleged hate crimes targeting transgender or agender people reported to police, according to Statistics Canada. In 2021, the last year with available data, there were 33.
Recently the Toronto Blue Jays cut ties with a pitcher who posted online in support of anti-LGBTQ2S+ boycotts and several municipalities and school boards have banned the raising of Pride flags on their property. Some carried signs emblazoned with baseless accusations that drag queens were predators, that exposure to their performances threatens children's innocence.
In this case, he says, the event went on as scheduled and the drag queen and families were all able to leave safely once it was done. While Kinsman says one person reported being burned by a cigarette butt, nobody was badly hurt. "There's a long, long history of the Christian right targeting queer and trans people," they say. "And they're very well-funded."
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