Summary
Canadian 2SLGBTQIA+ influencers – including ones funded by the federal government – regularly espouse hate-motivated incitement to violence against women who advocate for our Charter-enshrined sex-based protections. The problem is unaddressed.
About caWsbar
Canadian Women’s Sex-Based Rights (caWsbar) was formed in 2019 as a volunteer cross-Canada, non-partisan coalition of women and male allies working together to preserve the rights and protections of women and girls, as enshrined in Section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. These sex-based rights were essentially eliminated with the passage of Bill C-16 into law in 2017, which amended the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code of Canada to include the concepts “gender identity” and “gender expression”.
We assert that women and girls are discriminated against on the basis of sex – which the Charter recognizes – and not “gender identity or expression,” and that the inclusion of biological males in our private spaces and sports places women at great risk.
caWsbar receives no government funding or corporate sponsorship.
Observing Online and In-Person Hatred and Violence
Canadian Women’s Sex-Based Rights has been monitoring the online and in-person hateful conduct of trans influencers and their followers since our inception in 2019. Several of these prominent individuals receive ongoing government funding for their organizations.
We’ve observed alarming posts ranging from inflammatory to hateful, with increasing instances of outright incitement to violence against we women who advocate for our fundamental protections. The violence is not theoretical, either – women have been assaulted.
TERF is a Dehumanizing Slur
The acronym “TERF” (“trans exclusionary radical feminist”) is internationally regarded as a derogatory term, a misogynistic, dehumanizing slur. It is typically launched at women by trans-identifying males who are angered when women seek to prevent them from entering our private spaces, or participating in our sports and other sex-segregated activities.
Any woman who questions trans ideology and its implementation in Canadian society is labelled a “TERF” by trans activists and risks being publicly branded a bigot, transphobe or even a Nazi. The barrage of hate levelled against women simply for stating biological reality is both abhorrent and terrifying.
The very fact that the Government of Canada has funded these trans activists and their organizations would make it appear that their threatening comments are government-approved.
Online anti-woman vitriol has real-world consequences for women’s physical safety. In October 2023, a BC woman was the victim of an unprovoked attack by a trans activist for exercising her right to peaceful protest at a demonstration in support of 1 Million March For Children.
The following is a small sample representing the hateful comments women are exposed to online when they advocate for women’s Charter-guaranteed rights. These sentiments spill over to the public square with threatening displays toward and, as noted above, actual physical violence against Canadian women.
The fact that government-funded influencers often whip up this vitriol should give pause to elected officials and bureaucrats.
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According to Johnstone women who speak about sex-based rights must be vilified and silenced. | After UK women’s rights activist Kellie-Jay Keen was assaulted in New Zealand, Johnstone posted he’d like to see the same treatment for women in Canada. A follower adds to the intimidation. |
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Meghan McKie, member of the Canadian Navy, fantasizes about violence against women. | McKie does this sort of fantasizing on the job. |
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Protesters intimidate women with a guillotine at a sex-based rights speaking event in Vancouver. | Feminist Meghan Murphy fled Canada after being intimidated by stalkers, including Morgane Oger. |
Government-Funded For-Profit Consultants Inciting Hatred and Violence
2SLGBTQIA+ advocacy organizations such as Wisdom2Action, and its sister company Momentum, receive significant funding through the Government of Canada. These two organizations received almost $2-million combined since 2020 with commitments to 2026 per the Open Canada site.
Wisdom2Action is listed as both a non- and for-profit organization. It is led by president and co-owner Lisa Lachance. Acting as Executive Director of Wisdom2Action is Fae Johnstone, whose online posts can be seen above.
Since 2021, Ms. Lachance has served as an MLA in the Nova Scotia Legislature. This raises a vital question:
Is it ethical for one to influence government policy while profiting from government funding and serving simultaneously as a member of provincial parliament?
Morgane Oger, who leads the federally-registered non-profit Morgane Oger Foundation, is a BC trans activist who campaigned to defund Vancouver Rape Relief, Canada’s oldest rape crisis centre, because their policy is woman-only. Oger has been a long-time aggressor toward women who advocate for sex-based rights, as illustrated in images above and below.
Lesbians Are Particularly Vulnerable and Largely Forgotten
Lesbians are same-sex attracted women who should not be shamed into silence about their sexuality nor discriminated against for asserting that their orientation excludes people with penises.
Egale Canada is the country’s leading 2SLGBTQIA+ advocacy group. Established in 1986, it has an annual operating budget of nearly $6.5-million. In its 2023 Annual Report, the word “trans” occurs 16 times while the word “lesbian” is entirely absent. This is an egregious example of female erasure by an NGO whose mandate purports to advocate on behalf of same-sex attracted women.
Bookending the “LGB” acronym with other letters, numbers and symbols represents the forced-teaming maneuver of trans activism – a deceptive tactic that leverages collective guilt over how same-sex attracted Canadians have been treated historically.
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Oger refers to women who advocate for sex-based rights as “vermin”. | Oger states lesbians who assert boundaries to exclude people with penises are self-loathing. |
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After VRR announced maintaining women-only services, trans activists vandalized their office. | Instead of denouncing the targeted abuse scrawled on VRR’s facilities, Oger blamed the victims. |
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In response to BC trans activist Jessica Yaniv’s human rights complaint against female aestheticians who refused intimate waxing, Oger insists they should be forced to handle male genitalia. | Oger equates women asserting their Charter-guaranteed sex-based protections with Nazis. |
Our Mission
It’s not hateful to state and accommodate biological facts. Sex is real and consequential.
We need women’s hard-fought sex-based rights to be restored, including women- and lesbian-only spaces – in person and online.
In a democratic society, women must have the right to gather, discuss, and advocate for our rights freely, without fear, condemnation or punishment.
Recommendations
We call on the Government of Canada to remedy the dangerous situation it created for Canadian women and girls through its passage of Bill C-16.
Establish a commission to investigate government-funded hatred toward women, and particularly lesbians
Release the Gender-Based Analysis of Bill C-16 which has never been made public despite multiple requests by women’s rights activists
Acknowledge that the sex-based protections enshrined in the Charter are inviolable and supersede “gender identity and expression” rights
caWsbar will settle for nothing less than that women’s privacy, dignity and safety in all spheres of life be restored.
On behalf of Canadian Women’s Sex-Based Rights –
Maureen Sullivan
Board Member
Esme Vee
Steering Committee Member
December 11, 2024
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