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Proud mom. Founder of TransParent Okanagan transparentokanagan.ca she/her #kelowna #protecttranskids

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TransParent OK 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @transparentokanagan.ca · 24/08/2026
An elderly fawn pug lies on a blue, white and orange patterned rug, his head resting on a small white stuffed bunny.
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TransParent OK 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @transparentokanagan.ca · 01/06/2026
Happy Pride, Kelowna!! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (reposting as I forgot alt text!)
Image is a colourful background with Kelowna Pride written at the bottom inside of an astronaut’s helmet. Text on the imagine reads: KELOWNA PRIDE
WEEK 2026
ALL WHEELS WELCOME RIDE FOR PRIDE @ Railside Brewing
Presented by This Space & KPS
June 2
TRANS-ENBY MARCH & SOCIAL at
Laurel Packinghouse
June 3
PETS FOR PRIDE PARADE at Lake
Avenue Dog Beach
June 4
KELOWNA'S NEXT DRAG SUPERSTAR
FINALS at Red Bird Brewing (19+)
Presented by Rebellious Unicorns
June 5
KELOWNA PRIDE MARCH & FESTIVAL at
Stuart Park/City Park
June 6
FRUITCAKE: THE OFFICIAL PRIDE
AFTERPARTY at Red Bird Brewing (19+)
Presented by Rebellious Unicorns
June 6
DRAG & BURLSQUE BRUNCH: THE OFFICIAL PRIDE WRAPUP at
Dunnenzies Mission (19+)
Presented by Femme Fatale
June 7
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TransParent OK 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @transparentokanagan.ca · 16/03/2026
Happy 61st Birthday to my favourite world leader, Canadian Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social! 🎂🥳🎉🇨🇦
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney dressed in a blue suit and white dress shirt, grinning with his arm around a smiling middle aged woman (the Executive Director of TPOK) in a pink dress with white polka dots in front of Okanagan Lake.
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TransParent OK 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @transparentokanagan.ca · 11/02/2026
The National Post (!) just gave me hope that we will grieve together, and support each other. We can do it differently here in Canada. ❤️
Screenshot of a national post story “the Tumbler Ridge shooter was a trans female. How rare is that? Five transgender people have previously been implicated in mass shootings, but U.S. organizations say they account for less than one tenth of one per cent of such shootings, despite being a larger proportion of the population”
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TransParent OK 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @transparentokanagan.ca · 05/02/2026
No.
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TransParent OK 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @transparentokanagan.ca · 03/02/2026
Trans healthcare isn’t ✨vibes ✨Every major medical assoc supports gender-affirming care, because it saves lives. Since she’s ignoring the science, you have to wonder if Nicki Minaj’s is hoping for a pardon for her child rapist brother. Because it’s obvs not about protecting kids. #protecttranskids
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TransParent OK 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @transparentokanagan.ca · 23/01/2026
Apparently this:
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TransParent OK 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @transparentokanagan.ca · 23/01/2026
🤣
A screenshot of a post by the orange menace uninviting PM Carney to his made up loser board and on top a picture of Carney dancing (?) with Bonhomme today, joyful and unbothered.
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TransParent OK 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @transparentokanagan.ca · 23/01/2026
Badge of honour, tbh.
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TransParent OK 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @transparentokanagan.ca · 26/08/2025
Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married!
Ascreen shot of Taylor swift ig account w pic of her and Travis smiling facing each other embracing and text “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married”
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TransParent OK 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @transparentokanagan.ca · 05/08/2025
Very excited to meet the Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social this evening! 🤩He was funny and gracious (and laughed at my jokes so obviously also v smart). So grateful to our MP @theflyboy.bsky.social and his fabulous team! 🇨🇦 Feeling v lucky to live in Canada and to have this PM! #never51
Four smiling people - two men and a woman in a pink and white dress and a Younger man standing in front of a large lake. One of the men is the prime minister of Canada.
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TransParent OK 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @transparentokanagan.ca · 15/07/2025
So happy to meet @patrickbweiler.bsky.social MP for West Van, Sunshine Cst, Sea2Sky here for pacific #liberal caucus in Kelowna. Fangirling just a little 🤩 Party politics is tough & even tougher to vote & act w/your conscience, as he’s done. @theflyboy.bsky.social is still my fav but it’s close!! 😍
Two smiling men on either side of a smiling woman in a green top and pink colourful skirt, outside on a cloudy day.
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TransParent OK 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @transparentokanagan.ca · 19/06/2025
Kiki, Bubbles and our little old man Guinness (17 yrs old). It’s hard to be sad when you have a pug. 
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TransParent OK 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @transparentokanagan.ca · 01/06/2025
Pinky Promise was super excited to hang out with our newly elected MP Steve Fuhr at Kelowna Pride today! 🌈
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TransParent OK 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @transparentokanagan.ca · 26/04/2025
So happy to meet Harjit Sajjan at Vaisakhi in Kelowna. The vibes are 💯 for Steve Fuhr! Can’t wait to paint the town RED on Monday! 🇨🇦❤️
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TransParent OK 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @transparentokanagan.ca · 14/04/2025
Kelowna - if you’re under 35 or you know someone who is.
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TransParent OK 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @transparentokanagan.ca · 12/04/2025
‘Power and Politics’ on CBC confirms, “if you look at the seat projections, Kelowna is in play again” Let’s go Kelowna! Every single vote counts. Every one. 🗳️ Let’s flip this seat back to the people! 🇨🇦 ❤️
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TransParent OK 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @transparentokanagan.ca · 12/04/2025
Whoohooo!!
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TransParent OK 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @transparentokanagan.ca · 03/04/2025
Kelowna riding is officially pink! It’s going to be tight one, folks. 338 puts the race at 45/45 libs/cpc.
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TransParent OK 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @transparentokanagan.ca · 01/04/2025
Kelowna federal riding is now rated as “Toss up” on 338. This is huge! 🤩 You can really feel the energy building - so many volunteers, people excited to vote - it’s within reach Kelowna!! Let’s go!
Screenshot from the 338 website showing the Kelowna writing highlighted in yellow and in the next column “toss up LPC/CPC”Screenshot of 338 website showing federal parties down the left-hand side and three columns towards the right hand side showing the results from 2019 2021 and projected results. CPC projected results 46% plus -8%, LPC projected results 44% plus or -8%.
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TransParent OK 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @transparentokanagan.ca · 31/03/2025
Trans Day of Visibility
Black text on white background with transparent logo of two figures embracing a child-like figure. The text reads: We all want to celebrate the people we love to lift up their joy, strength, and beauty.
TDOV is meant to highlight the lives and contributions of transgender, non-binary, and Two-Spirit people.
But for many TTNB people and those who love them, today lands in the middle of heartbreak.
When your community is under attack,
when the news feels like a constant wave of fear, grief, and injustice, celebration doesn't come easily.
That's why we're not participating in our local TDOV event this year.
We're listening to the parts of our community that are exhausted, scared, and grieving.
Because visibility should never come at the cost of safety & joy is not the only emotion trans people are allowed to feel today.
Wee re shoosing to hold our young people a little closer, ty.
and remind them they are adored, exactly as they are.
To every TTNB person:
You are seen. You are needed. You are deeply loved.
We'll be right here with you tomorrow, and the next day, with love, purpose, and fierce protectiveness.
Love, Mom and Dad
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TransParent OK 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @transparentokanagan.ca · 28/03/2025
Ahh yes. Geoffrey Siglet. You might remember him for his other hits, like “suck it trans kids” (paraphrasing). He def doesn’t have an agenda at all. 🙄
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TransParent OK 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @transparentokanagan.ca · 23/03/2025
Traitor.
Transparent photo of Danielle Smith (original pic credit CP; edited by me) in the background overlayed with black typewriter text that reads: 
“The perspective that
Pierre would bring
would be very much
in sync with the 
new direction in America.”

Danielle Smith, Premier of Alberta
Breitbart News, Mar. 8, 2025
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TransParent OK 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @transparentokanagan.ca · 18/03/2025
My letter to PM @mark-carney.bsky.social Dear Prime Minister Carney, I am writing to you today both as a mother and as the Executive Director of TransParent Okanagan, an organization that supports parents and caregivers of transgender, non-binary, and Two-Spirit children. 🧵...
copy of the letter I wrote to PM Carney. Full text is reposted in the full thread. Letter is on white paper with black lettering and the TransParent logo at the top which is pink blue and white figures representing parents or caregivers enveloping their trans child with loving arms, and the words "TransParent Okanagan"
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TransParent OK 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @transparentokanagan.ca · 26/02/2025
Literally just a list of my friends and family.
White circle with black lettering inside that reads: I love vaccines, autism, abortions, homosexuals, sex changes and crime
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TransParent OK 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @transparentokanagan.ca · 21/02/2025
This is Raye, as in Ray of Sunshine. ☀️ She’s one of my book club doggos so she’s very well read 📚 and she really wants to know what you thought of the book? 🥹
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TransParent OK 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @transparentokanagan.ca · 14/02/2025
“Never doubt the power of a small group of queer and trans youth” Indeed! 🙌 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 Thank you @dennisafrancis.bsky.social for an inspiring talk. Grateful to participate online from interior BC.
Two people sitting at a white table in front of large projection screen, while engaged in a lively and animated conversation in front of a live audience.
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TransParent OK 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @transparentokanagan.ca · 11/01/2025
Low cost/free therapy services available across Canada with minimal waits:
Gray background with burgundy writing that reads: “can’t afford private therapy and face long waits for public services? try Moving Forward. Minimal weights, services across Canada (virtually) Low fees or free if unemployed. secured self referral moving forward.help or call 877-485-5025 and leave a message.
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TransParent OK 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @transparentokanagan.ca · 23/12/2024
Who doesn’t want a ‘squatty potty’ and handmade crocheted toilet paper cover for Christmas?! Feeling pretty proud, ngl.
Crocheted toilet roll cover light blue with white fluffy trim, rainbow appliqué and a rainbow unicorn on top.
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TransParent OK 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @transparentokanagan.ca · 18/12/2024
Puppy cuddles 🥰 Two of our three TPOK pugs, Bubbles (big) and Kiki (little) sharing a sweet snug. The TPOK pugs think trans people are the best people. 🏳️‍⚧️💕
Two fawn pugs lying in front of a window. The smaller pug (Kiki) is lying on top of and cuddling the larger pug (Bubbles) who is facing away from the camera and looking out the window with one ear up at attention and one ear folded over.
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TransParent OK 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @transparentokanagan.ca · 06/12/2024
This is the way.
Screenshot of the blocked profile of whiney baby and transphobe, Jesse Singal. Transphobes are not welcome here.
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TransParent OK 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @transparentokanagan.ca · 25/11/2024
Guinness is one of the TPOK pugs (yes, there’s more than one!). He is 16.5 yrs old, so he has some life experience, and he wants you to know that he loves you and thinks you’re pretty amazing. And dogs never lie so you know it’s true! 🩷🩵🏳️‍⚧️🐾
An elderly pug with a big pink tongue hanging out the side of his mouth, walking happily towards the camera. Hes walking in green grass with fall leaves and his leash is trailing behind him.
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TransParent OK 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @transparentokanagan.ca · 20/11/2024
Another I thought of: one of these personalized ornaments they sell at mall kiosks with their name printed on it.
Picture of a mall kiosk selling/displaying hundreds of colourful Christmas ornaments in dozens of shapes which can be personalized with names. Red background with pegs where the ornaments hang.
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TransParent OK 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @transparentokanagan.ca · 11/11/2024
Please don’t give up. ❤️
White text on black background with white candle. Text reads: Instructions on Living in a Broken World
lean into community seek out love
applaud the good you see keep paying attention talk to your neighbors
dance to the music and embrace art look for love and small joys
take breaks and relish in nourishing your body donate what you can
linger at the dinner table with friends check in with your people let yourself grieve
love one another as deeply as you can
the storm is upon us and we must hold on
don't give up, we're here together.
still we rise
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