(4/4) Abolishing transphobia means abolishing all interlocking oppression. Keeping trans folks safe means ridding the world of all the isms. Trans folks are here. They are beautiful. They are wanted. And they have a fundamental right to life 💙💗🤍💗💙🕯️

(3/4) The violence trans folks face is not contained in a vacuum. It relates directly to the violence of gender discrimination, racism(s), colonialism, capitalism, ableism, fatphobia, classism, and whorephobia.

(2/4) Transgender Day of Remembrance was started in 1999 by Gwendolyn Ann Smith as a vigil to honour the memory of Rita Hester. The vigil commemorated all the trans folks lost to violence since Rita Hester’s death.

(6/6) Bill C-49, a part of our heritage. #CanadianHistoryWeek

(5/6) Canada’s Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act (PCEPA) came into effect in December 2014. It was meant to remedy the crisis caused by Bill C-49. But it only exacerbated the shortcomings and violence brought about by its predecessor.

(4/6) Bill C-49 created the conditions that led to what is most infamously known as Vancouver’s killing fields. These “fields” multiplied across the country and created Canada’s current Missing and Murdered Sex Worker crisis.

(3/6) This law had the most impact on street-based sex workers, who could no longer occupy well-lit streets, work in pairs, or give themselves enough time to write customer license plates down for fear of arrest.

(2/6) This lack of a clear definition gave police immense interpretational authority in their implementation of the communicating law. “Public” soon meant any place you existed (even in parked cars hidden from view).

I 1000% agree. These folks are neither feminists nor abolitionists. They simply use these terms to essentially hide their very overt fascism :/

You aren't missing anything. It doesn't solve anything. That's why Scottish sex workers are trying to fight this. Implementing the Nordic Model/something closely resembling it only endangers sex workers.

They were clearly reaching to make a non-existent issue into a thing. I wish I could say it ended here, but this kind of bullshit continues in Canada and across the globe to this day