Fae Johnstone says 'nothing ever could have prepared' her for the barrage of online harassment she endured after being featured in an International Women's Day campaign for Hershey Canada.
Fae Johnstone says "nothing ever could have prepared" her for the barrage of online harassment she endured after being featured in an International Women's Day campaign for Hershey Canada.
"We need to meet this moment head on because it says something about who we are as a country if we let this hate take hold just like we're seeing it begin to," said Johnstone. Debbie Owusu-Akyeeah, executive director of the Canadian Centre for Gender & Sexual Diversity, said hateful sentiment surrounding LGBTQ people is "not new."
Johnstone was referring to an incident earlier this month where a man interrupted a B.C. elementary school track meet to wrongly suggest that a nine-year-old competitor was transgender and he demanded proof she was born biologically female. "As a mental health organization, you see the impacts of what that rising shame and stigma and discrimination contributes to, and we're sounding the alarm bell," she said in an interview.
While some strides are being made to combat anti-LGBTQ sentiment, experts and advocacy organizations say more needs to be done. Kwag said the decision to throw out Neufeld's case "is affirming the right and public benefit in speaking out against transphobic and homophobic rhetoric."
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