Hijacking the Murder of Women: Nothing is Sacred to Trans Activists

By JL

December 8, 2023

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Hijacking the Murder of Women: Nothing is Sacred to Trans Activists

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On 6th December 1989, a man called Marc Lépine walked into a mechanical engineering class at Montreal’s École Polytechnique with a semi-automatic rifle. He separated the men from the women and then instructed the men to leave. He declared that he was ‘fighting feminism’ and opened fire on the nine women who remained. He killed six of them.

Lépine then wandered the building for 20 minutes, targeting and shooting women. He murdered a further eight women before finally killing himself. His page-long suicide note made clear that his barbaric actions had been motivated purely by his hatred of women. “Feminists have always enraged me. I have decided to send the feminists, who have always ruined my life, to their Maker.”

In 1991, to commemorate the female victims of that senseless massacre, the Canadian parliament inaugurated 6th December as The National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women.

But, of course, like anything else that centres women, in recent years even this most sad and solemn occasion has been appropriate by trans-identified males who use the murder of women to colonise our sex.

In 2021 a Canadian province deemed that the best person to speak at a memorial service for these murdered women was a male.

The Prince Edward Island Advisory Council on the Status of Women held a memorial service for the victims of the Montreal massacre. Like the vast majority of so-called women’s organisations in Canada, this council operates for those who ‘self-identify as women’ and talks about ‘equality for all genders’ etc. Even so, it is shocking that their choice of speaker at a memorial for murdered women was a trans-identified male.

Incredibly, they invited Anastasia Preston, a Trans Community Outreach Coordinator at an LGBTQ+ sexual health clinic, to speak at the service. Such a choice would have been wholly inappropriate whatever the circumstances. But the man they invited clearly has no empathy or respect for women. Quite the opposite, in fact.

Of course, Preston claims to be a lesbian.

Only a few months before the memorial service, he retweeted this.

Yet the PEI Advisory Council on the Status of Women still believed him a suitable speaker at a memorial service for women who were shot to death by a man.

Talking to CBC about being invited to speak at the service, Preston commented, "For decades, trans women have been kept out of the conversation around gender-based violence”. He then talked on, at length, about being trans.

He said that, at the memorial service, he would describe his own experiences as a ‘trans woman’ and gave an example that involved him being ‘groped’ in a bar while wearing a red dress.

When people expressed their outrage at this appalling insult to Lépine’s victims, CBC turned off the replies to their tweet. This afforded Preston another opportunity to hijack the murder of 14 women to press the trans agenda and expound about ‘gender based violence’.

Last year, Durham College in Ontaria had the breath-taking effrontery to tweet that Marc Lépine’s victims were ‘self-identified women’. What an unbearable insult. It’s extremely unlikely that, in 1989, long before the madness of gender ideology swept the county, these women had any sort of self-declared ‘gender identity’. Most importantly, no ‘gender identity’ would have made any difference to their murderer who despised and raged against them specifically because they were female.

Durham College then decided that the best person to speak at an event supposedly in honour of Lépine’s female victims was a male.

Fae ‘She/They’ Johnstone describes himself as ‘trans feminine and non-binary’. But he’s a man. He is the Executive Director and co-owner of Wisdom2Action, a ‘consulting firm’ with a focus on the ‘2SLGBTQ+ community’. He is listed on the company’s website as a “Public speaker, consultant, educator and community organizer on unceded, unsurrended Algonquin territory”.

Johnstone gave a keynote address at Durham College as part of the school’s National Day of Remembrance Ceremony.

What an insult to the women murdered by a man who hated feminists, that the principal speaker at their memorial was a man who hates feminists.

[I’m omitting some images here because I’m near the length of my email limit and images take up a lot of space on Substack, but you can see all the screenshots on JL’s post on The Glinner Update.]

In response to the criticism of his appearance at Durham College, Johnstone attacked those protesting his presence as ‘disgusting’ and ‘deluded’. He claimed that, had he been in the École Polytechnique on that fateful day, he too would have been gunned down by Marc Lépine.

To exploit a memorial for murdered women as validation for your ‘gender identity’ is pretty low. But to appropriate their deaths and claim hypothetical victimhood is beyond vile.

This year, yet another trans-identified male has been allowed to hijack the massacre of fourteen women to push gender ideology.

Kai Cheng Thom is a former prostitute who describes himself as a “Writer, performer, cultural worker and speaker”. He ‘identifies’ as a ‘non-binary trans woman’ and claims to be a lesbian. But he is a man.

For several years, Thom has written an advice column for Xtra Magazine in which he has been known to pontificate about lesbianism to actual lesbians. He has advocated for lesbians to choose ‘transwomen’ partners, even quoting Riley ‘sexual preferences are transphobic’ Dennis as a supposedly ‘nuanced’ source on this subject. He believes that ‘sex work saves lives’ and he is a prison abolitionist, frequently speaking against the incarceration of even extremely violent criminals.

This week the University of Toronto invited Thom to speak at a memorial ceremony for the women who were killed during the École Polytechnique massacre.

In recent years, Thom protested when writer and women’s rights campaigner, Meghan Murphy (whom he describes as an ‘anti-trans activist’), spoke at libraries in Vancouver and Toronto. He also writes frequently and at great length about how women should do feminism, usually dictating to us that we should, that we must, include trans-identified males like him in our movement.

Delivering the keynote address at the University of Toronto this week, Thom read from his own poetry (of course) and, though it was thinly veiled, insulted the women who opposed his appearance, referring to them as cartoon villains full of spite. His speech focused on the experiences of trans-identified males, not women, and he railed against the supposed “Rise in transmisogyny and violence against queer and trans women globally”.

Thom, of course, failed to mention that no trans-identified males have been murdered in Canada since the recording of such incidents began in 2008.

Had Preston, Johnstone or Thom been in that École Polytechnique classroom in 1989 and instructed by to leave with the other men, would they have lingered to complain about being misgendered? Of course not. They’d have clung to the safety afforded to them by their sex and escaped. That they commandeer and appropriate occasions honouring the victims of that horrendous act of femicide and use them to shill for trans ideology is repugnant.

Women cannot have anything of our own that males like Preston, Johnstone and Thom will not take from us. Not even a few moments of solemnity in which to remember our slain sisters, murdered by a man who despised us all.