A Public Servant Stood Up for Sex-Based Rights at a Gender Workshop—And Paid the Price
Adrienne Smith described life in Canada as treacherous for trans people, due to what was described as an omnipresent threat of misgendering, harassment, and even lethal transphobic violence. This point was dramatized by mention of the "hundreds" of trans people whom Smith described as being killed every year (this presumably being a reference to globally aggregated statistics, since no trans person is known to have been killed in Canada since 2019).
The Deputy Ombudsperson told "Nick" that his comments about
sex and gender had "triggered and offended" Smith, and so ran afoul of the
office's "trauma-informed" conduct policies. He also endorsed Smith's
comparison of "Nick" to a racist white woman who regards black women as being
afflicted with venereal disease; as well as the allegation that Smith had been
"undermined" when "Nick" mentioned women he knew who endorsed a sex-based
approach to protecting female spaces.