#trans women ontario

[kayleewood]

Having some much needed fun after a long heart broken month

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Oh Canada…..two stories in one week? You can do better

Reduxx has learned that a convicted pedophile is the individual who had been protected by swimming pool staff after mothers expressed concerns about his presence in the women’s locker room. Parents and concerned citizens had been sounding the alarm about the man, who some say they had caught watching their young daughters undress, but were told he had a right to use the facilities as a “transgender woman.” 

In February, Reduxx reported that a mother had been threatened with arrest by staff at the Aquatic Centre in Nanaimo, British Columbia, after attempting to remove a male from the women’s locker rooms she said had been acting in a predatory manner towards her children. The man, who she described as wearing a wig and a face mask, had been peeping under the stall into the one where her young daughter had been changing.

Reduxx has now identified the man with the help of members of the community, and learned he is a convicted child sex offender. Jeremy Melvin Carlson now goes by Rylie Otter — sometimes spelling his first name “Rhylie” or “Rhiley.”

In 2019, Carlson, who was 28 at the time, was sentenced to 14 months in jail and 24 months probation for sexual interference against a young person. 

He admitted to touching an 8-year-old girl for sexual purposes on nine separate occasions while in a position of trust from December 2015 to September 2016. According to Vernon news site InfoTel, Carlson told police that he touched the child with his penis and fondled her genitals.

The girl eventually disclosed the abuse to her mother, who reported it to the RCMP. Carlson pleaded guilty to the charges in 2017. He later applied to have his guilty plea withdrawn but did not continue the bid and reverted back to a guilty plea.

The case gained national attention in 2018 when the victim’s mother read an impact statement aloud in court during the sentencing hearing in Kelowna, British Columbia, noting that her daughter had been severely traumatized by Carlson’s abuse.

“As a result of this trauma, (my daughter) continues to have nightmares,” the mother said, as reported by The Daily Courier. “(She) does not feel comfortable walking to school alone or with her siblings … She fears being in public places because she does not want to run into the offender.”

She also said that her daughter’s self-esteem had been negatively affected by the assaults and added: “I feel like I have completely failed my daughter as I was not able to protect my baby.”

While the victim’s mother was reading the statement, Judge Monica McParland dabbed a tear from her eye. This caused defense counsel Jacqueline Halliburn to make an application for the judge to recuse herself due to judicial bias.

McParland later dismissed the application, arguing that the victim impact statement was “highly emotional and moving” and that “there is nothing wrong with the court having a compassionate or empathetic response to it.”

During the sentencing, news outlets also reported that Carlson had started identifying as a woman. He had changed his name to “Rhiley Melvin Carlson” and was taking hormone replacement therapy.

The Daily Courier reported that “uncertainty was expressed in the court concerning whether or not Carlson would serve a jail sentence with men or women, and if sexual offender treatment would be available since it is typically geared toward men.”

The Crown sought a 15 to 20 months jail sentence and two years’ probation. Defense counsel argued that circumstances such as Carlson’s heavy marijuana use and struggles with gender identity and depression warranted a light sentence of only 90 days, despite admitting that he had “poor sexual boundaries.”

McParland felt that a strong denunciatory sentence was warranted in the case, with one aggravating factor being that Carlson has attempted to blame the young victim for the offense. She added that Carlson had to receive psychiatric treatment during his probation and barred him from being alone with children under 16, as well as from places where children under 16 could be present, such as swimming pools, community centers, schools, and daycares. Carlson was also added to the sex offender registry for 20 years.

Despite these conditions, concerned citizens have come forward to identify Carlson as the man who was spotted using the Nanaimo Aquatic Centre women’s facilities and closely watching the young girls. 

In February of this year, Reduxx reported that a mother had come forward after a man in a wig who claimed to identify as “female” walked into the women’s changing room and tried to peer under the changing stall her daughter was using.

The mother confronted the man, who said that he had a “human right” to be in there, and escorted him out of the changing room. When she reported the incident to pool staff, she was warned that she could be arrested and charged for her actions instead. Other local parents also came forward with reports of having run-ins with the man at the Aquatic Centre.

More recently, Facebook users have been sharing around a screenshot taken from a March 20 post about a convicted child sexual abuser in a Facebook group called Predators Of Vancouver Island. The post identifies the man pictured as Carlson and says that he has a current case open against him for another sexual assault on a child.

Reduxx confirmed the source of the photos and received confirmation that the man pictured is indeed Jeremy Carlson, a.k.a. “Riley/Rhylie Otter.”

Two anonymous sources who had encountered the man in the Nanaimo Aquatic Centre changing room also confirmed with Reduxx that it was the same man as the one pictured in the post.

“That’s 100% the person,” one member of the community told Reduxx. “I’m just so upset our justice system isn’t doing anything about it,” the source said. “They can’t charge him, not enough evidence, even though he breached by… not letting the sex offender list [know] he changed his name. Our system is a joke.”

A second source also identified the man in the pictures as having been the one present in the Nanaimo Aquatic Center locker rooms.

“I can anonymously confirm that was the person I saw and confronted in the changeroom watching a young girl change, yes,” she said, adding that she had also been in contact with the police but was told they had “hit a dead end.”

Reduxx also spoke to a concerned citizen who had been trying to get answers from Judge McParland in Kelowna and Crown council in Nanaimo about why Carlson was allowed access to the Aquatic Centre given his restrictions.

“I tried using online court services to see his conditions … and crown had said there [was] a public ban and that cops were well informed of Jeremy’s actions around the island as there were alot of incidents with that person,” he explained. 

“Cops won’t touch it [because] of trans issues now,” he added. “I’m honestly really shocked that the Nanaimo pool would continue to allow [Carlson]… to go there after numerous police were called and file numbers were taken. The police say they can’t do anything.”

Reduxx has reached out to the Nanaimo RCMP for details on whether the investigation into Carlson is ongoing, but did not receive a response in time for publication. This article will be updated in the event a response is received.

Reduxx also reached out to the Nanaimo Aquatic Center and received confirmation from an assistant manager that the matter was currently with police, but that no comment could be given at this time.

Police in Windsor, Ontario have located a suspect in connection to a sexual assault which reportedly occurred at a women’s shelter.

According to a public news bulletin issued today, a female victim had contacted police on April 4 to report that she had been sexually assaulted while staying at an unnamed women’s shelter in Windsor, Ontario. The suspect, who was also residing at the shelter at the time, is alleged to have climbed into the victim’s bed and sexually assaulted her. 

The suspect has been identified by Windsor Police Service as 32-year-old Desiree Anderson, who may also be known as Cody D’Entremont. 

Anderson was the subject of a police search today, but turned himself in just hours ago.

The case bears some resemblance to a crime which occurred in Parry Sound, Ontario just last year. 

In October of 2022, it was reported that a woman was allegedly raped by a sex offender at a women’sshelter after the predator identified as transgender in order to gain access to the facility.

Shane Jacob Green, 25, was arrested on August 24, 2022, by Ontario Provincial Police (OPP). At the time, the OPP issued a notice stating Green had been charged with two counts of sexual assault, four counts of failing to comply with a probation order, and one count of failing to comply with a release order. But it was later revealed that the crimes had occurred while Green was staying in a local women’s shelter.

Despite Canada’s vast size, there is only one known single-sex shelter in the country.

Vancouver Rape Relief (VRR), located in British Columbia, is Canada’s oldest rape crisis shelter. In 2019 it was stripped of its city funding after asserting it had a right to provide services to females only. Trans activists successfully lobbied the city government to make the shelter’s funding contingent on accepting males who identified as transgender. 

As a result of its hardline stance on being exclusively for women in need, VRR was targeted by trans activists repeatedly in incidents of disturbing vandalism which included nailing the corpses of dead animals to its charity shop door.

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Things are getting increasingly shitty in Canada for trans people and, not gonna lie, it's really stressful! Within the last month:

The Conservative Party of Canada, which is the official opposition party (AKA the party with the second most votes) and has a solid chance of forming the government in the next election, held a convention where they voted overwhelmingly in favour of creating policies to stop gender-affirming medical care for minors (link)

They also officially voted to define "woman" as "female person" and try to stop trans women from being in women's prisons, shelters, locker rooms, and washrooms

Multiple provincial governments are either enacting policies that would require parents' approval in order for trans kids to change their names or pronouns at school, or have officially said that they support forcibly outing kids (link)

A nonbinary teacher in Quebec received threats of violence for using pronoun "Mx" and other Quebec provincial parties complained about "wokeism" and said they wouldn't use the title (link)

And this doesn't include the homophobic & transphobic protests outside pride events throughout the summer or the "Save Our Children" convoy that's being planned for later this month (link), or the tons of shitty things that have happened all through this year, like tons of Ontario trans people (including me!) losing healthcare.

I'm trying to stay as optimistic as possible, knowing just how many trans people and allies there are, but sometimes! It's hard!

Anyways, if you're Canadian, please consider:

Getting involved in local, municipal politics, especially on school boards, to speak out about the need for gender-affirming policies, especially for youth

Showing up (with an organized, prepared group) to counter-protest anti-trans protesters

Keeping track of any anti- or pro-trans bills going around and contacting your MPs & MPPs to let them know what you think of them

Supporting 2SLGBTQ+ charities

Literally never ever voting conservative

And even if you're not Canadian, if you have friends who are Canadian & trans, maybe check in on them? Most Canadian trans people are pretty freaked out right now I think.

[amuseoffyre]

The Art Gallery of Ontario caught me coming and going with two of their special exhibits today.

First there was the 'Making her Mark' exhibit, featuring 240 pieces of art by female artists between 1400-1860. It included all kinds of media including lacework, illuminated gospels, painting, silver smithing, porcelain, scientific illustrations for text books, engravings, sewing and even music by female composers from the period playing throughout. It's fantastically presented and I highly recommend it.

And then I stumbled on the second and almost burst into tears. It was a beautiful collection of the photographs from Casa Susanna and all the joyful gender nonconformity that the place allowed for trans women and gender nonconforming people in the 60s. I'm having such regrets that I didn't grab the huge hardback book that is available in the museum shop. It made my little queer heart sing, especially in the current climate. Huge beautiful portraits of Susanna and her friends having lovely times together, proudly and defiantly themselves. I think I need to order that book.

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Transgenders Should Not Enter Single-Sex Spaces That Do Not Align With Their Biological Sex

Single-sex spaces are single-sex for a reason. Bathrooms, locker rooms, sports teams, prison cells, and more are more often than not separated by sex to ensure the privacy and safety of those within; however, gender ideology threatens the privacy and safety provided by these single-sex environments by advocating for biological men to be able to enter women’s spaces. While many say that transgender people should have access to places that correlate with their self-identified gender to promote equality and inclusion, in practice, this actually harms people, especially women and girls by putting them in vulnerable situations, villainizing them, and pushing them aside to accommodate the feelings of a small group of people.

Allowing biological men to use the same facilities as women puts women and girls in vulnerable and potentially dangerous situations. When changing in a female locker room, the women inside are consenting to seeing and being seen by other women in various stages of dress. Allowing men, no matter how they identify or present themselves, into a female locker room opens a door that would allow opportunities for assault, harassment, and overall discomfort of the women inside. This is not just hypothetical. This has happened and will continue to happen unless men are banned from women’s spaces. In Xenia, Ohio, a trans-identifying biological man entered a female locker room at a local YMCA and was reportedly entirely exposed to the women within the locker room who did not consent to seeing or being seen by an indecent man (Faith). An inmate by the name of Rose Doe was raped and is now “scarred for the rest of [her] life” by a trans-identifying male who she was forced to be cellmates with (Glorioso et al.). A self-identified trans woman known as Desiree Anderson admitted to climbing into the same bed as a woman residing in a women’s shelter in Ontario, Canada and sexually assaulting her (Brown). Another trans woman, known as Isla Bryson, was placed in a female prison in Scotland and took advantage of this by raping two women inside the prison (The Guardian). These are just some examples of biological men using their self-proclaimed identity to have access to female only spaces and take advantage of those within said spaces. These instances are not isolated. Allowing anyone who “identifies” as a woman into single-sex spaces grants them access and opportunity to take advantage of those within. To stop this from happening, trans women need to be banned from female-exclusive spaces, so that women have a safe space away from the opposite sex. An exception for even just one trans woman to this rule is a gateway towards an exception for all.

Biological men using female-only facilities contributes to the silencing and scrutinizing of women speaking out. Many women are reasonably uncomfortable with biological men in single-sex spaces; however, when opening up about their discomfort, women are often met with backlash from people accusing them of bigotry or “transphobia” for not letting men in their spaces with no questions asked. J.K. Rowling, famous author of the Harry Potter book series, receives constant threats because she has spoken up about the issue. She is portrayed by the media as problematic and bigoted, all because she advocates for women’s rights and safety. Paula Scanlan, a former swimmer at the University of Pennsylvania, also spoke out about having to share a locker room with biological male, Lia Thomas. She says that would open her phone and have hundreds of hate messages all because she spoke about her experience and how it was unfair and made her uncomfortable (Mew). The backlash these women and many others like them have received discourage other women like them from speaking up about their experiences with biological men in female spaces, and this can even have effects beyond this particular issue. Seeing women be scrutinized for speaking out discourages women who have suffered all kinds of harassment and misogyny from speaking out about what they have experienced. Allowing biological men into female only spaces and disguising it as equality and progressiveness sets women up to be villainized when they oppose the intrusion of biological men in female spaces.

Allowing biological men access to female-exclusive spaces also pushes aside the rights and safety of women to affirm the feelings of trans-identifying biological males. Recently, a woman who was a member at a Planet Fitness in Alaska had her membership revoked because she saw a man in the women’s locker room and took a photo to show to the staff. The presence of a man in the female locker room made the woman uncomfortable; however, upon reporting the incident, the woman had her gym membership revoked and the man continues to use the female locker room at the gym without so much as a slap on the wrist all because he is a self-proclaimed woman. In her testimony, Paula Scanlan says that when she and her teammates spoke up about the discomfort that a transgender teammate in their locker room was causing them, the university responded by essentially saying that the girls were the problem and they needed to be more open-minded or as Scanlan put it, “move over and shut up” (Scanlan). These instances are not isolated either. Women all over are forced to comply with rules that accommodate transgender women being allowed in their spaces. These women’s feelings are dismissed and minimized all to affirm the “identity” a biological male has chosen for themself insinuating that these men’s feelings are more important than the feelings, rights, and safety of women.

In conclusion, single-sex spaces need to remain single-sex. While no one has a right to choose how someone else presents or identifies themselves, women do have a right to female-exclusive spaces that should not be compromised because a small group of people want to feel validated. Allowing biological men in female only spaces can make the women inside very uncomfortable or even put them in danger, the ideology discourages women who have experienced this from speaking out, and sends the message that the feelings of trans-identifying males triumph over the safety of half the population.

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Works Cited

Brown, Jon. “Trans woman crawled into bed with, assaulted female resident at women’s shelter:police.” Fox News, 20 April 2023, https://www.foxnews.com/world/trans-woman-crawled-bed-assaulted-female-resident-womens-shelter-police. 

Glorioso, Chris., Sola, Kristina. “Man posing as transgender woman raped female prisoner at Rikers, lawsuit says.” NBC New York, 24 January 2024, https://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/man-posing-as-transgender-woman-raped-female-prisoner-at-rikers-lawsuit-says/5067904/. 

Mew, Andrea. “From Athletics to Activism, Paula Scanlan Isn’t Afraid to Rock the Boat.” Independent Women’s Forum, https://www.iwf.org/female-athlete-stories/paula-scanlan/. Accessed 7 May 2024.

Penley, Taylor. “Woman banned by Planet Fitness for photographing trans member vows to keep fighting.” Fox News, 29 March 2024, https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/woman-banned-planet-fitness-transgender. 

Paula Scanlan. U.S. Congress. Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government. “The Dangers and Due Process Violations of ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ for Children.” 

“Trans woman guilty of raping two women remanded in female prison in Scotland.” The Guardian, 25 January 2023, https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/25/trans-woman-isla-bryson-guilty-raping-two-women-remanded-in-female-prison-scotland. 

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Hey, congrats on the bottom surgery, I hope your recovery goes well. I wanted to know, do you have any advice for what to look into about the surgeon? I'd also be interested to hear how long it was from your initial consult to the surgery?

hello thank you so much! depends on where you live for example i needed my gp to write a letter saying i "medically need hysto/bottom surgery" and i also needed a letter from a psychiatrist saying the same thing (find yourself a student in training or someone getting an apprenticeship in psychiatry but even then the cost might be the same since its a flat fee for "second letter allowing you to get a sex change" in ontario, it was around 250 for me to book a single appointment. the benefit of choosing someone in training is to tell them to make your letter fit perfectly - i told mine to put whatever was most likely to get me approved and cover my surgery)

now if youre past the permission letters stage - i just asked for a referral to the most experienced surgeon who has performed the most laparoscopic hysterectomies and i got a few options - i had a choice of going w Womens College Hospital or Mount Sinai which ontario has a sister connection w the one in NY - i chose a surgeon at MS cus that gives me a case file in that hospital and MS in NY performs phalloplasty which will ultimately make it easier for me to transfer/be waitlisted for that.

My surgeon (Dr. Allen) met w me abt a year after my 2nd sex change letter for consult, and then it was abt 6-8 months until i was booked n got my surgery! So once you send that 2nd letter off expect to be getting surgery within 18-20 months. My surgeon even gave me a choice of where i was operated at and i chose WCH since i got my top surgery there and they are the first ones to scrap the bullshit BMI requirements that gave me access to surgery to begin with 💕

i love the workers at WCH so much actually i cant not talk abt them, its mostly women and its a teaching hospital so you get thousands of future surgeons n nurses that are interested in providing better transition care and are learning how to perform these surgeries and what obstacles trans people usually face (dropping the BMI reqs, giving me mid surgery tools that are used in vaginoplasty in WCH cus the nurses noticed everyone w leg blood clot risk can benefit from them, etc) like i dont wanna say go to WCH cus my care team was all very pretty diverse women and im gay but they really do treat you better theyre more personal w their care and i saw 3 trans girls at different stages of bottom surgery recovery being wheeled out into a waiting room together just cus the nurses knew they were friends and wanted them to have daily time together while they stayed for recovery it was really sweet. ive had mostly queer nurses for post op checks there it was realy nice being able to ask how my keloided top surgery scars would heal and my nurse pulling up their shirt and showing me how theirs looks cus it was done by the same surgeon - small things like that made my fear of medical malpractice drop majorly so if youre in ontario i recommend WCH for most transition surgeries!!

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Liana Kerzner aka redlianak aka It’s Not Therapy tried to provoke this trans woman to suicide.

I am a trans woman living in Ontario, and while I am deeply tired of literally everyone wanting my existence to end… there is one person in particular who actively tried to drive me to suicide. That person is Liana Kerzner. What Liana put me through… no person should ever have to go through.

Writing this post is the opposite of easy. But I am tired of keeping all of this inside and I am tired of seeing awful people scam others out of thousands of dollars when the rest of us have to struggle just to survive and make ends meet.

My trans siblings — Liana Kerzner is NOT our ally. She may be the enemy of our enemy, but she is not our friend, no matter how she seems to be acting on our behalf or how much she seems to care about us. (Seems is the key word there, by the way.)

Liana Kerzner is a masterful narcissistic liar and manipulator who is very good at pretending to care about others, because she likes to use other people. By suddenly being “all in” for trans rights, she is performatively jumping on being vocal about supporting trans folks at best. At worst, she is actively looking for more vulnerable people to exploit through her massive Twitter reach. I know her tricks well, because I was once one of those vulnerable people that Liana Kerzner knowingly took advantage of and caused harm to.

And with Liana Kerzner now masquerading as someone who “cares” about trans folk, and who uses her large Twitter platform to collect followers (ie funders for her next vanity project), I knew I had to say something before she exploits or harms anyone else like she did to myself and many others*.

See, I knew Liana and her husband Steven personally. I knew them before I found myself and claimed the woman I always knew I was, and at one point I was naive enough to think that we were actually friends, that they cared about me as a person. But that couldn’t be farther from the truth.

In fact, when we were “friends” Liana exploited me for free labor for a number of months for one of her vanity projects. But at the time, I was happy to help out a person who I thought was a friend and I didn’t think to question what she asked of me to do (or to ask to be paid for my work) especially because it started out with her asking for very small things. Liana made it seem like she really needed my help and that she thought I was brilliant; she did all of the tricks that narcissists do when they groom you.

This was also around the time that I was starting to grapple with who I really was, and I wasn’t in the best headspace overall. Liana was someone I confided in about what I was thinking and going through, and she convinced me that I “was confused” and should go on anti-depressants instead of looking more into transitioning. Any time I was having a rough day and needed to talk, we would talk about me and where I was at for maybe 5–10 minutes… but then Liana would complain to me for hours about various people who had apparently wronged her, were out to get her, all of it. People who “did her wrong”. Even knowing what I was going through, she kept saying things like “Oh you’re a man, you don’t know what it’s like for women like me.” We would be chatting on Skype and I know she could see my face fall, and yet she kept saying stuff like this to me about how “manly” I was, all of it. Liana refused to recognize that I was a scared little girl inside a body I hated and felt trapped in, or perhaps she was actively taking joy in knowing how upset her comments made me. I honestly don’t know.

I was naive enough to believe that Liana Kerzner was a good person who was being hurt, instead of recognizing that Liana was in fact the predator who was knowingly causing harm to these other people.

While we were “friends”, and while she never came out and told me to do this for her, there are a handful of people who Liana manipulated me into harassing on her behalf. More than once, Liana had me write and send some nasty emails — ones she demanded to proofread before I sent — to people who she was having disagreements with. Or, in her words, people who were “out to ruin her reputation”. I was also once asked to speak to police on Liana’s behalf and corroborate that Liana was ‘being stalked and harassed’ by a certain person, when I had never actually witnessed any of this behavior from the person she claimed was stalking her. (Police scare me, so I declined. Liana was not happy about this.) Liana also wanted me to back her up when she “had to” make a complaint about supposed sexual harassment by a male friend of hers, claiming that she suddenly feared for her safety with this man — again, meanwhile, I had never seen any of this kind of behavior from him. Not with her, not with any woman. This is what narcissists do, they get others to act on their behalf so they don’t have to get her own hands dirty.

Every month or so, it seemed like Liana had a falling out with someone new; at one point this included her own young nephew and his parents. (These are the same people she started her failed NYE Event Futurecon for, btw.) In hindsight, I’m certain that these people who “had it out for her” were simply, rightfully standing up to Liana’s bullshit and manipulations.

Over time, the unpaid labor or “favors” that Liana asked for got bigger, including some things she wanted me to “borrow” from my day job for her benefit. (Unpaid, of course.) This was also around the time that I decided to come off the anti-depressants and begin transitioning for real. I was scared of so much back then — scared nobody would love me, scared of how my friends and family would take the news, scared of how my workplace would treat me, all of it. Liana knew about my fears and insecurities, because I told her.

And she used it all against me.

The first time I said no to doing an (unpaid) favor for her, she called up my workplace and outed me to my boss. This was long before I was ready to share the news publicly about the woman I was becoming. Not only did this lead to some very awkward workplace conversations about “employee appropriateness” (whatever that even means, ugh)… Liana began to call me at my workplace regularly to scream at me for “letting her down”. Eventually, her harassment of me led to me getting fired.

Then, as I was trying to distance myself from her, one day I got a harassing phone call about an item I had apparently “stolen” from Liana; it was demanded that I return it or pay the replacement item cost, which was quite expensive. Not only did I never steal anything from Liana, this incident happened at a time when I was jobless so I was barely covering my rent and bills. In this phone call, I was verbally threatened that I might face criminal charges, I might go to jail, or be sued… all for something I didn’t do. And the person that I spoke with made sure to tell me that I would be “put with other men where I belong”. Yeah.

I also got harassing emails on Liana’s behalf from her husband Steven Kerzner, who threatened me with lines like “as long as you don’t speak ill of my wife, we won’t have to tell the truth about who you are and what you’ve done.” Basically… trying to threaten me into never saying anything about the hell that Liana Kerzner put me through and the lies she was spreading about me.

A friend very kindly let me know that the Kerzners were also going behind my back, calling mutual acquaintances and telling them that I was mentally unstable, that I was becoming violent, that I should no longer be invited to certain events we were both planning on attending, etc. It was all lies, but this social exclusion and the rumor mill went on for months. I watched people who I thought were friends fall off one by one because of the Kerzners manipulation, threats, and lies.

Through this all, Liana Kerzner repeatedly and actively lied about me to many other people, claiming that I was a pedophile, that I was trying to groom young kids — the same anti-trans rhetoric you see other people using now.

Liana Kerzner also tried to get me committed to a psych ward, with other lies about my mental health and that she was worried I was “a danger to others and myself” and that I was having “delusions” of being a woman because I was “sexually attracted to her and acting out”. (She tried something here in Canada that is called a form one) She tried have me placed under psychiatric evaluation with her blatant lies… ultimately, all for being trans. And for daring to finally stand up to her narcissistic abuse when I couldn’t take any more.

I also got some threatening and harassing emails from other friends of Liana’s, a couple of which called me a “man in a dress” and explicitly told me to kill myself, that the world would be better without trash like me. I won’t repeat everything that was said, but it was a lot. Especially back then.

Liana Kerzner is a liar, a narcissist, a bully, and someone who knows how to quite skillfully manipulate those around her, including lying to the legal system and lying to doctors, to get them to harass and abuse others on her behalf.

There’s more I could tell you about too, but it all boils down to the same thing… Liana Kerzner is only pro-trans rights to suit her own agenda. At her core, she is still deeply transphobic , toxic, and abusive. She’s just good at hiding it.

Her usual MO is to either get people to give her money (ie Patreon, Ko-fi, Kickstarter, etc) and/or to get people to do favors for her for free… despite the Kerzners being rather well off, apparently.

What I will say in closing is this… Liana can keep up the charade of being your “friend” for years, but ultimately she is cruel and manipulative. Liana Kerzner will say and do anything she can to get what she wants out of people — including pretending to be a trans ally so that people like you and me will confide in her, and be willing to pay her money for her “not therapy” bullshit, aka Liana Kerzner’s newest grift.

If you value your own mental and physical health, don’t let Liana Kerzner manipulate you. Take it from someone who has been there, and who has been through that particular hell.

Get as far away from Liana Kerzner’s fake-nice narcissistic manipulation as fast as you can.

*Footnotes:

*Emily Schooley is a brave woman and survivor of domestic violence whom Liana Kerzner has been jealously and maliciously smearing for well over a decade now.

While there’s tens if not hundreds of us who have received the “Special K” treatment from Liana, Emily is the only person brave enough to speak the truth publicly about Liana with her own name, because Liana likes to: make false police reports about, send harassing emails to, get her minions to harass, or threaten legal action on anyone who speaks out about the abuses she perpetuates.

I’m probably going to get more harassment from Liana Kerzner just for posting this, even though my name is not attached to this post, but Emily Schooley’s bravery and vulnerability in sharing what Liana Kerzner put her through is part of what inspired me to stand up and speak my truth too.

https://www.tumblr.com/liana-k-truth — someone else put this list together of some of the many people Liana has knowingly harmed and some of the other problems Liana has caused over the years. It’s well worth the read.

https://futurec0n.wordpress.com/ — some other people Liana Kerzner has harassed and caused harm to

[butchwink]

hey whats up turns out i have debts and bills to pay like everyone else and could still use financial support from you guys. im audrey, an autistic trans woman from ottawa, occupied ontario. im 29 and need help with my rogers bill and personal debts. i owe about $150 to two loan sharks and can only pay one off this week and told them both id have the money by the end of the week. im not worried about my friend who bought me a hockey jersey i can pay him back its the bastards at cashmoney that i owe $142.37 or some shit because my payment bounced for absolutely no reason (not enough money haha i thought i was fine but nintendo and tsn showed up to collect for absolutely no reason). i dont care how much i owe rogers ill pay them eventually but i wish i could get sportsnet so i can watch the womens world cup. idc who has it i just wanna watch the hockey again god dammit!!

sorry for being like this. my paypal address is aemfontaine@gmail.com. i lost my wallet with my debit and ids so i wont have access to this money until i get my shit back or replaced later this week.

im back at the psych ward the third time this crazy ramadan fuck my life man. they want you eating when the suns up and fasting when the suns down and breaking your fast at 8 in the morning once the sun is bright. fuck the christian white supremacist nightmare that is laicité already. i could use help.

navigating transmisogyny and ableism is already hard enough for me. im a culturally christian white girl raised by french catholics with guilt complexes like no tomorrow and celebrating ramadan even just in solidarity and friendship as a white christian is structurally impossible in this racist islamophobic society. cant imagine what its like for actual muslims here in canada or at this hospital dealing with that shit personally. they wont let me integrate and consider or familiarize myself with any alternate perspective these white supremacists.

[darkeagleruins]

Where's an asteroid when you need one?

[sunshineactualrabbit]

Hey everyone~ normally I wouldn't post something like this

I just post diapers and reblog others~

My good friend here really needs help~

She's a trans girl and an age regressor, and is having some terrible apartment trouble with a bad living situation and an tricky/awful landlord.

Please consider helping her out if you can, even a few dollars or just $1 if you can.

I donated what I was able to but she has to hit this goal by the end of this month (Sept 30th). Please consider if you're able to

[kayleewood]

Hey there! I'm in a tough spot and need your help to avoid eviction before January 15th. Each donation, no matter the amount, really makes a difference for me and my two rescue cats, so I’d be grateful if you could click the link below to contribute or share it with others who might be able to help. Thank you so much for your kindness!

https://gofund.me/a5659ee6

[coochiequeens]

https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/warmington-female-rugby-players-complain-trans-opponent-hits-too-hard

Female rugby players are not used to feeling like they have been hit by a bus on the field. Or a truck.

A veteran female rugby player, who plays for the Stoney Creek Camels senior women’s team, said she was hit so hard in a recent game, it felt like a man delivering the tackle.

This transgender player, known as Ash — said to have registered as a non-binary person who identifies as female — stands about 5-foot-10 and weighs up to 220 pounds. 

“We are women,” said a female player on the receiving end of a tackle. “It’s a whole other thing playing rugby against men.” 

Or one who used to be — especially one of that size, who is also said to have been an MVP at the men’s level just last season. 

“I had never been hit like that before, even at the competitive women’s level,” said the player. “There was so much more brute force. There are women who are bigger than him, but no girl hits like that. This is a strong human.” 

“The player is a nice person, but that is not the point,” said the female player. “We are now at a disadvantage.”

This story has sparked a lot of discussion within the rugby community – many comparing it to the Leah Thomas swimming issue in the United States. But as one female player pointed out, competitive swimmers have their own lane and there are no collisions. In rugby, it’s all collisions, all the time. She said Ash’s legs are massive and strong, and “you feel the hits from (them) the next day.”

Diana Murphy a friend of some of the players, tweeted: “Three women’s rugby players had to be removed from a game and treated for injuries from hits sustained by a transwoman” and that she feels “Trans have no place in women’s sports.” Rugby Canada said there were no illlegal hits, but sources in the game said Ash received a yellow card from the referee for a hit to the head of one female player. Ash was pulled from the game. Players said they are not clear whether it was at the insistence of the referee or the Fergus coach. Either way, Rugby Canada said this is a federal inclusion issue and not only is this transgender player welcomed in the league, but the law protects that person from discrimination.

“We are aware of the matter in question but would advise that Rugby Canada has received no formal complaints,” said Managing Director Tania Richards. “All rugby played in Canada abides by federal government laws which regulates inclusion in sports."

She said there were no players hurt and there were no illegal hits as has been suggested on social media. What there has been, said Richards, is online harassment of the transgender player. The Fergus club has not yet responded, but has forwarded our request to speak with Ash. Meanwhile, there are some players who feel they should not have to play against someone who was recently considered male, but are afraid to reveal their identities for fear of being targeted or cancelled themselves.

All sides use the word “complicated” when talking about this matter. Rugby Ontario sent a communique to members, saying “for those who attended Sunday’s board meeting, you are aware of some concerns that have arisen about player safety in the context of a transplayer playing in club games” and “we are working closely with Rugby Canada senior staff on the matter and are together developing action and communication plans, informed by the counsel of their third-party crisis management PR agency.” They also asked, “if you are contacted by anyone in the community or the media, please do not engage by offering any opinion or comment on the situation.” What they don’t seem to be doing is fully accepting there are some female players who don’t feel comfortable going up against a transitioning opponent in a physical sport where size and strength play a role. One player said the collision she had with trans player Ash was unlike any other impact she has felt in all her years playing rugby.

[rileyrose31]

Hi!! I don’t usually post about my personal life, but a really close friend of mine is falling on some hard times and needs a month’s worth of rent to get settled into a stable situation. Any amount of money helps, even just spreading this post around would help a ton!

[nikkisticki]

I've not really bothered to mention this but I'm actually on DIY HRT because the Ontario Government has been actively corroding our medical system and that's involved ruining our limited access to the stuff.

In the process of trying to get it legally, I've been sent away from seven trans care clinics. Why?

Too old!

Too far away!

Not living in the right area!

Can't help without a primary care doctor at their location (which is impossible as they DO NOT HAVE DOCTORS THAT CAN FILL THIS NEED)

Didn't like trans people (why are you offering HRT then)

The government took our money :(

I could get it through a primary care doctor...except I can only get one in this town and the wait list is 3 years! Oh I could try online...except they shut them all down!

I had to buy Brazilian E that ended up costing me 350 CAD for two months of pills after delivery and shipping costs got to fuck me in the ass, but luckily I've found doing 1 on 1 exchanges with trans women is a much cheaper way to get my Sex Change Serum. Hope the random anonymous stranger I purchased from isn't tricking me into injecting poison!

[talisidekick]

@aspirationatwork , allow me to do one better.

[Start ID: A screenshot of the headline and photo of an lgbtqnation.com article. The headline stating: "Women's biker club protects kids from conservative protestors at drag queen story hour" in white bold arial style block letter font on a gradient dark brown to deep red background with stylized faint curvy lines. The photo is of 5 individuals standing in a line blocking access to the automatic sliding glass doors of the Middlesex County Library in Parkhill, Ontario, Canada. The building is red brick and white trim.

The woman on the far left of the photo is in a biker vest opened at the front adorned in various patches the photo is unfortunately too low quality to make out, a vibrant purple hoodie with the hood strings removed, and deep blue straight-cut jeans. She is sporting a medium-short haircut with hair greyed with age and wearing glasses. Her expression is neutral with a "I'm old and I'm fucking tired of little shits like you" delivery. Her left arm is linked at the elbow with the woman standing to her left who appears to be shouting angrily to someone not captured in the photo.

The angrily shouting woman is wearing a similar biker vest done up at the front with buttons and adorned with several patches which are unfortunately not in great detail due to the low quality photo but what can be made out is a Canadian flag on the upper left part of her vest, and a patch with a black background and teal lettering. She is wearing a black and white plaid button up, with worn blue staight-cut jeans, and sunglasses. Her hair is cut short on the top, buzzed on the sides, and greyed with age. Her expression is angry, and her fists are clenched like "try me bitch".

Linked by the arm at her elbow is another woman in a biker vest, that I kid you not, is open, but fastened together with chains and sporting similar patches of a Canadian flag, and a circular bright neon green patch with the letter A in black block letter style. She's wearing a gray button up, her keys are linked through the middle chain on her vest, and she's wearing dark blue pants. She's wearing glasses, sporting grey hair tied back, and expression either on the verge of hysterical "you're a joke" level insulting laughter, or the biggest biblical level tongue lashing you've ever heard of and you should be ashamed of yourself.

Linked at the elbow next to her is a woman in a black baseball cap, and a black T-shirt with the words "Protect Trans* Kids" in blue, pink, and white trans flag colours in block letter style. She's also wearing glasses, and some sort of bag that you can only see the grey strap of across her chest. Her expression is neutral and gives the impression this woman is a wall and your words are the power equivalent of a snall butterflies wing flap.

Linked at the elbow is a bearded individual in a red and black hat with glasses wearing an identical black shirt, who is looking at the angry biker woman they're in line with. It's hard to get an impression from the expression as the face is unfortunately onscured by the shaded black gradient of the photo on the right side.

The link to the article will follow the end of the ID.

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There's the link!

kudos to the women bikers

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 12.9 (after 1940)

1940 – World War II: Operation Compass: British and Indian troops under the command of Major-General Richard O'Connor attack Italian forces near Sidi Barrani in Egypt. 1941 – World War II: China, Cuba, Guatemala, and the Philippine Commonwealth declare war on Germany and Japan. 1941 – World War II: The American 19th Bombardment Group attacks Japanese ships off the coast of Vigan, Luzon. 1946 – The subsequent Nuremberg trials begin with the Doctors' Trial, prosecuting physicians and officers alleged to be involved in Nazi human experimentation and mass murder under the guise of euthanasia. 1946 – The Constituent Assembly of India meets for the first time to write the Constitution of India. 1948 – The Genocide Convention is adopted. 1950 – Cold War: Harry Gold is sentenced to 30 years in jail for helping Klaus Fuchs pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union. His testimony is later instrumental in the prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. 1953 – Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company. 1956 – Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810-9, a Canadair North Star, crashes near Hope, British Columbia, Canada, killing all 62 people on board. 1960 – The first episode of Coronation Street, the world's longest-running television soap opera, is broadcast in the United Kingdom. 1961 – Tanganyika becomes independent from Britain. 1965 – Kecksburg UFO incident: A fireball is seen from Michigan to Pennsylvania; with witnesses reporting something crashing in the woods near Pittsburgh. 1968 – Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS). 1969 – U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers proposes his plan for a ceasefire in the War of Attrition; Egypt and Jordan accept it over the objections of the PLO, which leads to civil war in Jordan in September 1970. 1971 – Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Air Force executes an airdrop of Indian Army units, bypassing Pakistani defences. 1973 – British and Irish authorities sign the Sunningdale Agreement in an attempt to establish a power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive and a cross-border Council of Ireland. 1979 – The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first of only two diseases that have been driven to extinction (with rinderpest in 2011 being the other). 1987 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict: The First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. 1992 – American troops land in Somalia for Operation Restore Hope. 1996 – Gwen Jacob is acquitted of committing an indecent act, giving women the right to be topless in Ontario, Canada. 2003 – A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds several more. 2006 – Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-116 carrying the P5 truss segment of the International Space Station. 2008 – Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is arrested by federal officials for crimes including attempting to sell the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama. 2012 – A plane crash in Mexico kills seven people including singer Jenni Rivera. 2013 – At least seven are dead and 63 are injured following a train accident near Bintaro, Indonesia. 2016 – President Park Geun-hye of South Korea is impeached by the country's National Assembly in response to a major political scandal. 2016 – At least 57 people are killed and a further 177 injured when two schoolgirl suicide bombers attack a market area in Madagali, Adamawa, Nigeria in the Madagali suicide bombings. 2017 – The Marriage Amendment Bill receives royal assent and comes into effect, making Australia the 26th country to legalize same-sex marriage. 2019 – A volcano on Whakaari / White Island, New Zealand, kills 22 people after it erupts. 2021 – Fifty-five people are killed and more than 100 injured when a truck with 160 migrants from Central America overturned in Chiapas, Mexico.