LGBT activists are blaming white supremacists and “far-right” Christian nationals for the hate they claim has been targeted at trans people in Canada.
The trans activists who spoke on a bizarre, federally-subsidized, Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants panel — entitled No More Hate: Transgender Rights and Futures — repeatedly claimed that opposition to gender ideology (the belief that people can be born into the wrong body) is “genocidal.”
They all despaired at their perceived notion that Muslim families – they would only call them migrants, not Muslims – had “coalesced” with white supremacists and “far-right” Christian nationals on the 1 Million March for Children last fall.
”Our own elders were standing side by side with white supremacist people who have spoken loudly that they don’t want us in this country,” said moderator Debbie Osusu-Akeeyah of the Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity. ”Who knew the far right would be so good at solidarity?”
Osusu-Akeeyah did not respond to questions about her comment even though her organization’s website claims it thrives on “openness, honesty and integrity.”
But as far as I know, and have researched, white supremacists were not involved with the 1 Million March at all.
Terms such as “far-right,” “white supremacists,” “genocide,” and numerous woke words were repeated throughout the hour-and-a-half-long panel.
There were also several references to what is happening in Gaza, labelling it a genocide.
Long-time council executive director Debbie Douglas did not respond to True North requests for details on the funding for the panel and why an agency serving immigrants would be engaged in such an exercise.
However, according to information from the Canada Revenue Agency and the programme for the event, the Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants receives funding from Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Canada.
That funding totalled $37.2 million over five years and that’s just from one federal agency of several that funds the council.
The CRA documents also showed that the Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants has 51 employees and 70% of its revenue goes to employee salaries and consulting fees.
Ontario Sunshine List figures show Douglas earned $141,000 in 2022. A CRA filing said she made between $120,000 and $159,000 last year.
CRA documents for last year also show Osusu-Akeeyah made between $80,000 and $119,999. There are eight employees under her and the group spends 68% of its revenue on employee wages and consulting fees.
Osusu-Akyeeah, sporting a nose ring and Pride earrings, said her community is deeply feeling the so-called “immediate threat” to transgender and gender-diverse people.
She claimed laws put in place by elected officials — influenced by the far-right, of course — are forcing LGBT activists to “go underground.”
Like with the many outrageous claims she made, she did not elabourate.
One panelist, 20-year-old Celeste Trianon, a “transfeminist,” said she helped organize the counter protest to the Million March across Canada to respond to the “hate.”\
“It’s very concerning that migrant communities might be working with white supremacists on any topic,” she said, refusing to utter the word Muslim.
Looking everywhere but into the camera, Trianon made little sense as she spoke about those who want to “eradicate” gender ideology — which she likened to a “genocidal act.”
She compared the eradication of gender ideology to what’s happening in Palestine and the acts of “dehumanization.”
”When you talk about quote-unquote prisoners vs quote-unquote hostages, it’s the same thing,” she said. ”Dehumanization is one of the several stages of genocide.”
Later in the panel, Trianon, who runs an organization called Juritrans, says Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists (TERFs) are the result of a “fear of having one’s own rights taken away.”
Depicting trans women as a “threat” to womanhood is akin to how Israel depicts Palestinians as a “threat to Jewish people worldwide,” she said.
I reached out to Trianon to explain her outrageous comments and how she rationalizes her counter-protests to the Muslim march against trans rights with her concerns about those in Gaza (who do not accept trans people). She did not respond.
Speaking of Muslims and Gaza, the only male speaker, El-Farouk Khaki, did admit the Muslim culture does not grant full equality to gay and trans people.
Still, he congratulated Trianon for bringing up the intersection between genocide and dehumanization.
He said Toronto’s public system is not a “safe place,” particularly before the “genocide” in Gaza.
Khaki has a long history of anti-Israel rhetoric.
In 2009, he took the heat for making the opening remarks at an anti-Israel Queers Against Israeli Apartheid event while serving as grand marshall of that year’s parade. Many saw that as a conflict of interest.
Since Oct. 7, his Instagram page has been rife with anti-Israel propaganda, claims about genocide in Gaza and this ridiculous comment: “Queers for Palestine is NOT an oxymoron.”
As painful as it was to listen to these radical woke activists, who appear to thrive on painting others as hateful, it reinforced a couple of thoughts.
These activists will go out of their way to pretend that those who marched against trans rights were not Muslim. They suffer from a distinct cognitive dissonance when it comes to those they believe to be oppressed in Gaza, who loathe what they stand for and who they are.
They see white supremacy and “far right” haters under every rock, as the crux of their problems and make outrageous divisive and intolerant comments with impunity.
I have to wonder, as I have many times before, if their very government-funded existence depends on playing the victim.
What they don’t, or won’t, realize is that people are tired of it.
The 1 Million March last fall was proof.
