Critics allege group funded by Quebec government spreading transphobic views
On Thursday in the legislature, Jennifer Maccarone of the Liberal Opposition read excerpts of documents that refer to sex change surgeries as a form of “mutilation,” which she said had been published by the group Pour les droits des femmes du Québec on its online platforms.
Biron replied that every group has its own “opinions” and “objectives” and all groups should be respected and listened to. “It was really hurtful to read that in the first place, and then to see them contributing to the sustained campaign of hate directed at me was really atrocious to witness,” Johnstone said. “PDF Québec doesn’t consider trans people to be who we know ourselves to be, but rather that we are somehow deceived or that there is something wrong with us.”
Catherine Poulin, a spokesperson for the Department of Labour and Social Solidarity, which provided the funding, said the department was not aware of the allegations of transphobia. “They started singling me out recently and attacking me because of my standing within Quebec’s trans community. Some of the things that PDF Québec has done include sharing disinformation about me either as an organization or as an individual member thereof and also, in some cases, going as far as to publish slandering articles on me,” Trianon said.
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