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Sara Elsayeda

@saraelsa.net
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None of us are free until all of us are. Personne l'est. 🇨🇦 Liberal. she/her/elle.

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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 02/07/2026
The important thing is this bill does NOT ban social media for certain ages and removes most of the harmful “parental consent” provisions. But there are still changes to be made to truly hold Big Tech accountable while respecting our rights. @evangreer.bsky.social dives in: bsky.app/profile/evan...
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 30/06/2026
We are swiftly headed for a society in which a trans kid must undergo state mandated torture, are banned from being on line, are banned from hanging out in most public spaces, are banned from using bathrooms at school, banned from accessing the health care they need, and banned from playing sports.
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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 18/05/2026
We could've been the ones making this announcement citing U.S. fascism and reckless military action. Instead, our elected leaders let the U.S. have the upper hand here.
toronto.citynews.ca
U.S. says it's pausing long-standing military board with Canada
In a post on social media, Elbridge Colby says his department is pausing the Permanent Joint Board on Defense
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
i will not vote for any democrat that encourages throwing the trans community under the bus, i dont care who the opponent is i will not participate in an election where the choice is between two candidates that will attack marginalized communities to reach their personal political aspirations
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Play Father John Misty For Me 🎃 @marisasandlin.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Oh, this is fantastic!
cicnews.com
Canada is fast-tracking citizenship certificates for trans Americans
Trans Americans with Canadian ancestry have been receiving expedited processing of their applications for Canadian citizenship certificates. Proof of Canadian citizenship certificates, which are provi...
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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 12/05/2026
I can't help but think sports administrators are now feeling significantly more comfortable making gendered cuts to programs with this new political environment we're in where even overt misogyny just isn't seen as a big deal.
cbc.ca
Cycling Canada decision to cancel women's team pursuit program draws ire of track athletes | CBC Sports
Frustrated Canadian track cyclists continue to voice their displeasure and concerns on social media about Cycling Canada's recent announcement to withdraw its women’s team pursuit squad from the Oct. ...
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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
As I wrote in @xtramagazine.com, age verification is bad tech, and it is going to just harm so many people unnecessarily, most especially queer and trans people.
xtramagazine.com
Banning social media for minors would hurt everyone—adults included | Xtra Magazine
A social media ban would disproportionately harm queer and trans people, and restrict LGBTQ2S+ materials
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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 20/04/2026
These individuals need to be stripped of their medical licenses and barred from holding a public sector job for the foreseeable future. Attempting to enforce foreign laws in the provision of a public service in Canada should be seen as the act of treason it is.
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Celeste Trianon @celeste.lgbt · 20/04/2026
SCOOP: Les médecins desservant la communauté étudiante de l'Université McGill refusent désormais de prescrire des hormones... aux étudiant·es internationales en provenance des États-Unis ayant moins de 19 ans. La raison? Donald Trump. celeste.lgbt/fr/2026/04/l...
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L'interdiction des soins de santé trans à Donald Trump suit les États-Unien·nes... jusqu'à l'Université McGill • Celeste Trianon
Les étudiantes internationales étatsunien·nes à l’Université McGill ne peuvent plus obtenir des soins de santé spécifiques aux personnes trans sur le campus jusqu'à leur 19 ans... à cause de Trump.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
At a time when mass surveillance and autonomous weapons companies like Palantir are openly announcing their plans for violent world domination, it is crucial that our attempts at “big tech reform” don’t actually give them more power—ie via government mandated age verification/identity software
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
🧵American women (in particular WW) really need to start internalizing this: The ~concern~ that many (mostly) white & male politicians express for women's safety isn't about our safety but about instrumentalizing us as delivery mechanisms for statements about white men's power over non-white men.
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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 26/03/2026
Every single person calling for forcibly withholding Internet access from people under 18 or 16 or whatever the case may be either wants to see or is negligently indifferent to seeing abused children suffering in silence, out of sight and out of mind.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Every time I make the (correct) statement that social media use is not universally bad for teenagers, or state that the best consensus is that it's beneficial-to-neutral for many and any negative effects are a small subset of teenagers, people demand citations (and then refuse to believe them, sigh)
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Queer Momentum @queermomentum.ca · 25/03/2026
Today, feminist organizations across 🇨🇦 are launching a new campaign: Women for Trans Rights. This campaign rejects attacks on trans people under the guise of protecting women and putting the focus back where it belongs: patriarchy and government inaction. Add your name: www.womenfortransrights.ca
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:
I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves.
Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone.
That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins.
If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after.
Sahar Delijani, Iranian author
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
It's a scandal the way children in desperate need of medical treatment are being abandoned by clinic after clinic. It is no less of a scandal than diabetic patients cut off from insulin or poor people turned away from ERs if they can't pay.
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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 18/02/2026
Furthermore, the CBC article itself is quite troubling. It includes a comment from an activist involved in anti-trans extremism while neglecting to include any comment from the prisoner or from any trans-related advocacy organization. It also doesn't feature any critical analysis of CSC's claims.
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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 18/02/2026
So here's how this playbook goes. CSC blanket refuses requests by trans women without GRS to be held in women's institutions citing "overriding health and safety concerns" every time. When made to defend its decision in court, it raises bogus arguments that would apply to virtually any trans woman.
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A sex offender receives gender surgery. A court will decide if she should be transferred to a women’s prison | CBC News
A transgender woman incarcerated as a dangerous offender for sex offences wants a judge to order the Correctional Service of Canada to transfer her from the men’s prison system to a women’s institutio...
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aka Rainbowbagel90 @socialistexan.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
It's abuser logic. The abused must always be composed, polite, and even-keeled, trying to find ways to prevent their own abuse in a way that does not upset abusers, b/c then they won't listen. It's your own fault, you weren't polite. Abusers are allowed the luxury of anger, the abused are not.
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Jen Sorensen @jensorensen.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
This week's comic: "Polarization" is a reality-obscuring weasel word
"Polarization"

IT'S A COMMON REFRAIN THESE DAYS.

NATTERING NOGGINS HOSTS:

THE PROBLEM AS I SEE IT IS THAT AMERICA HAS BECOME TOO POLARIZED.

YES, IT'S SO SAD.



WHEN A MOVEMENT BECOMES EXTREMIST, DO WE REALLY WANT TO SEE THE OPPOSITION AS PART OF THE PROBLEM?

MAN: ANYONE WHO HELPS A 10 YEAR-OLD RAPE VICTIM GET AN ABORTION SHOULD GO TO JAIL!
	
WOMAN: THAT'S BARBARIC AND I'M GOING TO DO EVERYTHING I CAN TO FIGHT IT.

POLARIZATION ALERT



BUT THE TERM "POLARIZATION" CAN BE A FORM OF BOTH-SIDESING THAT OBSCURES SPECIFICS.

ARMED EXTREMIST: I'M HERE TO STOP THE TRANSGENDERS FROM DESTROYING THE COUNTRY.

TRANSGENDER PERSON: I PREFER NOT TO DIE, AND SOMETIMES SHARE THIS OPINION!



WOULD THIS BE BETTER?

MAN IN MILITARY GEAR: YOU WILL DO AS I SAY, SUBHUMAN!

LATINO MAN: I WILL POLITELY ACQUIESCE!

HOW NICE! NO MORE POLARIZATION!
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
One of the most disgusting, brutal and unpunished child‑abuse networks in the world… And the usual voices who claim to care about ‘women and girls’ have nothing to say. We see you.
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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 01/02/2026
I'm happy to see Caryma Sa'd express her displeasure at the attacks I faced on the basis of my appearance in her comments section. I would call this kind of behavior out no matter the target because ultimately all it does is perpetuate systems of oppression and particularly misogyny.
@carymasad (Instagram) 2 weeks ago

"Contrary to this letter published by Toronto Today, I do not post videos of “progressive protesters” for “rabid online supporters” to “dissect.”

I cannot police what others say online, even though it would be preferable for people not to attack strangers based solely on appearance. I don’t like it when it happens to me, when it’s directed at conservatives, or when it’s directed at progressives."
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 26/01/2026
We are all drowning in a pool of systemic propaganda so I understand why the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti feel esp shocking and I think it is important to do the internal work of asking yourself, if this applies to you, why the deaths of immigrants/Black folks don't shock in the same way
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
im sorry but we just spent the last decade being told the biggest issues were pronouns in emails and a trans kid playing jv lacrosse if you said these things and got paid for it then you need to go away. literally if “woke mind virus” is something youve ever said unironically you need to go away
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Blaise Boo-lysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
"Don't give them what they want" isn't going to work because this is exactly what they REALLY want; A fearful populace that accepts its fate that any one of us could be murdered in cold blood by The State w/ no repercussions of any kind.
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
If I were a PM who had delivered a seminal speech on the global rupture and the need for new relations with the world, I probably wouldn’t send hundreds of layoff notices to my foreign affairs department the next day www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0...
hilltimes.com
Tracking job cuts in the federal public service
Workforce adjustment notifications have hit thousands of employees across dozens of government departments and agencies.
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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 20/01/2026
If it took Mark Carney this long to see what we've been seeing for the past year (and he's been seeing up until the election), very well. I expect changes in our foreign policy moving forward, particularly insofar as the US is concerned. I also expect the US appeasement bill (C-12) to be abandoned.
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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 19/01/2026
They don’t want a high-trust society. They want a low-melanin society.
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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 13/01/2026
Two days ago, local influencer Caryma Sa'd known for targeting progressive protestors and movements put my full name out in an accusatory post for her tens of thousands of vicious social media followers to devour. Today, I returned the favor and put her full name in the local newspaper.
torontotoday.ca
LETTER: Being torn apart for how you look — an unfortunate rite of passage for every woman entering the public sphere
A Toronto counter-protester laments how social media videos filmed at demonstrations are used to attack individual participants online
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Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 12/01/2026
Govt of Canada Communication: THEN vs NOW
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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 11/01/2026
Here's what this TPS officer is calling "not racist".
Ron Bouwmeister, an attendee of the Canada First rally, said he’s protesting for his grandkids.

“My kids, my grandkids are blonde. I was blonde. Now you look [at] all the schools, there's no blonde people anymore. That's wrong because we need a mixture.” he said. “I want my Canada back.”
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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 10/01/2026
Toronto Police Service officer (the one standing furthest to the right) claims Canada First protestors calling for stripping non-white Canadians of their citizenship and renditioning them to foreign countries are not racist while speaking to a curious bystander.
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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 09/01/2026
I'm glad to see the CBC calling it out for what it is. For too long our media organizations have been trying with ever-increasing desperation to feed us the lie that there are two legitimate sides to every issue.
cbc.ca
ANALYSIS | How Trump and Vance's accounts of Minneapolis ICE shooting differ from video evidence | CBC News
The official White House narrative of what lead a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent to shoot and kill a U.S. citizen in her vehicle in Minneapolis is bumping up hard against what can be s...
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Civil Defence Network (CDN) @defencenetwork.ca · 06/01/2026
Join us for a virtual town hall to understand the current landscape, learn about civil defence and how such networks can operate, and discuss ways we can collectively safeguard our freedom & democracy from the threats now facing Canada. Event is Thursday, Jan 22nd, at 8pm Eastern: bit.ly/cd_meeting
Black text on a red and white background reads:

Exploring Civil Defence. In an increasingly dangerous world, it pays to be prepared. Join a conversation exploring what a civil defence network is, why it matters, and how Canadians can start to build one. Date: Thursday, Jan 22. Time: 8pm EST/5pm PST. Hosted by Tim Ellis, more guests to be announced. RSVP: bit.ly/cd_meeting

Above the text, a Canadian maple leaf logo is emblazoned on the outline of a shield shape.
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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 03/01/2026
The same goes for the Carney Liberals as they've shown us.
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I also hoped Carney would be a cold, pragmatic leader who could steer Canada using evidence and common sense. Turns out he's just another finance-brained conservative who can't deal with reality. It sucks. But I'm not gonna pretend he's the leader I hoped he'd be. Because I'm not a fucking child.
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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 03/01/2026
It's cowardice. That's all there is to it. We elected a bunch of cowards after they lied to us about their intentions.
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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 27/11/2025
"At least he's not Poilievre" is the new "at least we're not the US". It's true and makes sense in some contexts, but we cannot allow it to be a carte blanche for the justification of regressive policies. It's time to hold the Prime Minister to some actual standards.
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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 20/11/2025
We're seeing the notwithstanding clause being used more and more in Canada, with provinces choosing to exempt themselves from the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms with impunity. They want you to become desensitized over time. Don't give them that. Our rights are not up for grabs.
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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
I know it’s fighting a losing battle, but I really do wish we could reclaim liberalism as a philosophical tradition and that people could just say “establishment Democrat” when they mean that.
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Greenpeace Canada @greenpeaceca.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
You've probably heard of Bill C-12 and C-2, but there's a slate of other bills that, when assembled together transformer style, could create a freedom repression machine that rivals the one south of the border. We broke down how it would work >> act.gp/4i9pU1b #Cdnpoli 📹 via leftiejane on IG
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Alyssa MacKenzie @alyssamackenzie.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
'Flee' is not the right word for people making the decision to leave a place because of the politics they do not agree with. 'Flee' was what my wife and I did when we left our home of 30+ years in Florida bc white supremacists & transphobes were literally destroying our lives & healthcare.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
The living Israeli hostages have been released as part of a ceasefire deal that also saw about 2000 Palestinian prisoners freed. Wait, but why are the Israelis “hostages” and the Palestinians “prisoners”? In today’s video, that’s the question we’re exploring:
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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 09/10/2025
Pierre Poilievre really controls this supposedly Liberal government, doesn't he? Any other party (or its own grassroots base) wants something and it's just crickets. Conservatives ask for something and the next day there's a government bill for it.
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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 07/10/2025
I'm very upset with Bluesky for what it's been doing lately but this is correct. Image classification for moderation purposes is a good use of machine learning, and training a classification ML model doesn't allow it to create new content based on training data ('stealing' artwork).
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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 05/10/2025
I just made a financial contribution to @transrights.northsky.social. If Bluesky's administration wants to act like Elon Musk, it shouldn't be surprised to find its platform succumbing to the same fate that brought down Twitter. Did you know Northsky is Canadian?
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🏴🚩 Trans Kafka (any pronouns) 🍉🍉🍉 IS A REAL HUMAN PERSON! @alexpetrovnia.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I OFFICIALLY CALL BLUESKY USERS TO DO A MUTUAL AID / DIRECT SUPPORT POSTER'S STRIKE. No content except things that directly support marginalized people. Flood the site with the people Jay would love to forget she is personally killing. And nothing else. #StrikeForMutualAid
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Trans Rights Commission Toronto @trct-cdtt.ca · 28/09/2025
Our counterprotest demonstration earlier today against a hate rally calling for healthcare to be forcibly withheld from trans kids was attended by almost 100 participants. The hate rally ended without meaningful impact. We built the connections necessary to safeguard trans rights for years to come.
Counterprotestors gather at Queen's Park with various hand-drawn signs, such as 'Trans Rights are Human Rights', 'Protect Trans Kids', 'Let Kids Be', 'Hate Rots the Soul', 'Mind Your Own Gender', 'Love Your Trans Kids' and 'God Loves Me'.Counterprotestors march down College St east of Bay St. Signs include 'Leave Medical decisions to doctors + families', 'Gender Affirming Care Saves Lives', and 'Trans Rights Are Workers Rights'.Counterprotestors march down College St east of Bay St. Signs include 'STOP telling trans youth that who they are is WRONG'.Counterprotestors march down College St east of Bay St. One demonstrator is wearing a trans flag as a cape.
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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 19/09/2025
Absolutely shameful decision by Vince Gasparro that makes double standards in government discretion obvious. This would never have happened for white supremacy or aligned bigotries—but does happen if you dare speak out against genocide. I'm looking forward to a legal victory in favor of Kneecap.
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Trans Rights Commission Toronto @trct-cdtt.ca · 12/09/2025
We're counterprotesting a hate rally attempting to target trans kids' healthcare. Details in the poster.
Counterprotest against hate rally directed at trans kids

Queen's Park
Saturday, September 27, 2025
10:30 till 15:00

What this is about

An organization known for anti-abortion activism has organized a hate rally calling for healthcare to be forcibly withheld from trans kids. High-profile extremists are supporting this rally.

We’ll be there to show trans kids we’re willing to fight for them. We’ll also make it clear to politicians that we won’t tolerate interference by organized hate in our healthcare.

Trans Rights Commission Toronto

web: trctoronto.ca
bsky: @trctoronto.ca
email: info@trctoronto.ca
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