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Populism is on the rise in North America and elsewhere, but for the first time it seems like we\u2019re beginning to see it\u2019s negative effects in Canada, and specifically in Ontario where the Ontario PC Party won a majority election earlier this year.

At a recent annual party convention the ON PC Party voted on a resolution that to me is a prime example of the first real step backwards for human rights in Canada, and specifically the rights of transgender people \u2013 and by affect, all LGBTQ+ people, anyone who is considered \u201cother\u201d and not part of the status quo.

Read more about the resolution in the article I wrote for the Gay Guide Network, How to Fight Doug Ford and the Ontario PC Party as LGBTQ+

http://thegayguidenetwork.com/how-to-fight-doug-ford-and-the-ontario-pc-party-as-lgbtq/

Below is the quote I read from J.J. Belanger:

\u201cI come from humane human rights, I put humane there, humane human rights. I have no regard for civil and legal rights, per se. To me it\u2019s a waste of time and political activism, because they\u2019re only pieces of paper. They can be rescinded and changed by a councilman, a councilwoman, a supervisor, a governor or a president. We have plenty of evidence of that. So I\u2019m saying, if we don\u2019t learn, to me, heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, ambisexual \u2013 these are sex acts, per se. They\u2019re not a lifestyle. What we do in bed, per se, as individuals, is nobody\u2019s business out there. But I\u2019m saying, if we don\u2019t address humane human rights we\u2019re gonna lose the ballgame.\u201d

From the Making Gay History Podcast.

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