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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 · 09/06/2026

Four months in, it seems trans kids' protections are exempt. bsky.app/profile/esqu...

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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 08/06/2026

He wants to write the room. He’s spending millions of federal dollars trying to do that.

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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 18/05/2026

What does this bill do for trans kids who are being forced out of sports by the government and not allowed to play?

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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.

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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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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 08/05/2026

Most other sites set the threshold at 13; I'm surprised it's so high for Gander. Please see if that's something you might want to reconsider!

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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 08/05/2026

I would suggest you look into lowering this threshold. Young Canadians deserve to be part of the conversation—and if Gander aims to be a safer, better version of social media, isn't it preferable to have them on Gander and not on other platforms instead?

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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 08/05/2026

I've just gotten an invite to Gander and learned that it is marked 18+ in the App Store, has a popup asking you to confirm you're 18+ in the app, and has a clause in the community guidelines requiring users to be 18.

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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 29/04/2026

The advantage of this approach is that it doesn't result in any practical changes insofar as the legislative process is concerned. The monarch will then no longer be needed to sign bills into law.

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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 29/04/2026

This can therefore be taken advantage of to amend the constitution such that laws are legally considered effective immediately upon passing third reading without the need for royal assent. Once the constitution is amended in this way, judges will apply this new principle.

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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 29/04/2026

While nominally true, the argument here is that royal assent as it stands is something the Governor General on behalf of the monarch is expected to do without question in accordance with convention. Any derogation from this convention is likely to result in a constitutional crisis.

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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 28/04/2026

Ironically, these policies are directly compromising fairness in sports by excluding would-be participants from the opportunity to compete on the basis of characteristics they have no say over.

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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 20/04/2026

To do so on the basis of a so-called "legal opinion" finding "liability risks" *in a foreign country* is not only a level of cowardice demonstrating abject unfitness for a position of this nature, but also a cause for review into the legal qualifications of whoever issued that opinion

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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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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 20/04/2026

Do you have, like, literally any source for that claim? Your username suits you well.

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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 · 29/03/2026

@goodlawproject.org offered to fully indemnify Girl Guiding UK against challenges arising from trans inclusion. GGUK did not accept the offer.

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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 27/03/2026

But also worth noting that it would be equally appalling if she were.

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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 26/03/2026

Most age/ID verification policies have no safeguards to protect platforms that aim to be non-toxic or to provide a safe environment to children, and the same Big Tech companies pushing for these policies will push hard to make sure safer platforms are stifled so they can retain their monopoly.

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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 26/03/2026

(This is not to say that all parents are abusive. This *is* to say that the so-called "parental rights" movement specifically seeks to empower abusive parents. Non-abusive parents simply do not need to exercise the level of authoritarian control over other people's lives that this movement enables.)

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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 26/03/2026

Make no mistake: it is a necessary part of the broader "parental rights" movement, which seeks to disenfranchise children and empower abusive parents, to exercise full control over the information children receive so that they can be indoctrinated into their ideology.

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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 26/03/2026

This desire for control over every minute aspect of children's lives arises from the exact same motivations behind book bans in school libraries or mandatory parental opt-in for sex ed or mandating the usage of incorrect names/pronouns for trans kids without parental consent.

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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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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 14/03/2026

And an agender person whose claim was accepted in 2024. I'm not aware of whether the Minister appealed in that case.

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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 14/03/2026

I also know of a trans woman whose claim for refugee protection against the U.S. was accepted but then overturned for redetermination just before Trump on the ground that it was not sufficiently concluded that she wouldn't be able to move to a safer part of the U.S. Hard to see that holding up now.

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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 14/03/2026

Here's a non-binary person from the U.S. with a successful judicial review overturning a negative PRRA decision. This is not exactly the same as refugee protection but is still very relevant and will carry a fair bit of significance in determining how refugee protection cases are decided.

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Judge halts non-binary person's deportation to the U.S. as Trump dismantles trans rights | CBC Radio

A Federal Court judge halted a non-binary American's deportation from Canada pending review. Advocates say the ruling sets "an important precedent" for 2SLGBTQ+ immigrants and refugees coming to Canad...

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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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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 28/02/2026

The Trump regime is the absolute last thing Iranians need right now.

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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 28/02/2026

Israel is not "defending" itself by launching an unprovoked attack, Carney. The United States has nuclear weapons and has been threatening international peace and security our entire lives. This "new" order you spoke of at Davos seems awfully familiar.

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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 19/02/2026

EDI is actually a pretty commonly used acronym in Canada!

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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

This is reminiscent of BBC's attitude towards trans-related issues, where anti-trans extremists are guaranteed a voice while advocates for trans rights are only occasionally cited. While this behavior may be common across the pond, it is completely out of character for the CBC.

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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 18/02/2026

... appeals to their physical size (again applicable generally but applied only to trans women) and the notion that trans women must be entirely 'well-behaved and remorseful' prisoners if they are to have the chance of being placed in a women's institution. It is beyond ridiculous and unacceptable.

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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 18/02/2026

... if they are trans, appeals to the fact that women's prisons are more communal and operate differently from men's prisons (which would prima facie apply equally to all female prisoners and render women's institutions obsolete, but which in practice is only applied if they are trans), ...

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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 18/02/2026

... implications that the burden of proof lies with the prisoner to demonstrate that they have "mitigated" behavior or concerns impugned upon them by virtue of the sex they were assigned at birth, unsubstantiated claims that women in female-designated prisons warrant higher security...

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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 18/02/2026

Reasons cited include claims that the prisoner has a record of "verbally abusing female staff" (which, due to the nature of how prisons work, would apply to nearly all prisoners and all staff regardless of gender—but is only cited by CSC in the case of trans women), ...

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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 18/02/2026

... suggesting CSC can arbitrarily hold female prisoners in male-designated facilities if they are trans regardless of policy. The actual bogus reasons given by the CSC are identical to other examples of its attempts to house women in male-designated facilities (based on court records).

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Sara Elsayeda @saraelsa.net · 18/02/2026

While falsely citing overriding H&S concerns at least nominally appears to be in accordance with CSC policy (CD 100), holding a trans woman who has a female-typical anatomical sex (the sole basis on which sex is defined under CD 100) is a blatant violation of it...

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