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Marni Panas, a trans activist based in Edmonton, says her heart broke when she saw news of Tuesday's mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., that left nine people dead, including the suspect, and 27 injured.

Later, when rumours started to percolate that the suspect in the shooting was a transgender woman, Panas watched what she says has become a predictable pattern emerge online. Within minutes, she says some people began to leverage the tragedy to "advance hate" against the trans community.

Tara Armstrong, an Independent MLA who represents Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream, made several social media posts Wednesday about what she called transgender ideology, saying it is "radicalizing youth, and unlocking violent impulses."

"There is an epidemic of transgender violence spreading across the West," she wrote on X.

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[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

How come when a cis white man does something wrong, people don't use it to say bad things about all cis white men? How come it's only when a member of a minority group does something wrong, it's used to disparage everyone in that group?

Another example is movies. I listen to movie reviews on YouTube a lot. I don't know if this is true, but I heard a rumour that the reason Hollywood was afraid to make female superhero movies for a long time was because the Supergirl movie in the 70s sucked. Why doesn't the same logic apply to male superhero movies? How come when Superman 4 sucked, that didn't stop Hollywood from making more male superhero movies?

[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago

Because people (probably the same fuckos that push anti-trans stuff) come out to do shit like ‘not all men’ or ‘it’s not time to be political’ or ‘think of the guns!’