City of Ottawa, police warn of traffic disruptions downtown for 'million person march' protest

CTV NewsNet is reporting live in Ottawa and said that there are only "hundreds" of protesters and counter-protesters altogether.

Their goal was to get 1 million across all of Canada, not just in one place.

I live in SK, and based on what I what I saw, I would not be surprised if there were between 100-200 people at the pro-"making kids homeless by outing them to their parents" demonstration at my town.

They're still not going to hit a million, but probably a more than a couple thousand.

Two-Spirited is an Indigenous term for someone who isn't hetero.

From https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-the-two-spirit-community-5089204:

" "Two Spirit" is an umbrella term that is meant to unify various gender identities and expressions among Indigenous, Native American, Alaskan Native, and First Nations people.

It does not refer to a specific gender and is instead a catch-all term that represents a wide variety of people who don't fit in with the traditional gender binary."

2S stands for two spirit

https://lemmy.ca/comment/3230809

I think we're just getting trolled at this point...

My thanks to said fascist. Skimming through that video gives some idea of what went down in Pickering (Ontario, population 100k), which would otherwise be impossible to get without investing way more effort than it's worth. Looks like they had more success there than in Ottawa.

U less you're actively being harassed or attacked, it doesn't matter.

Yes, that's literally the issue. One 'side' here doesn't want to be harassed or attacked the other side wants to do the harassing and attacking. These are not the same.

On the face of it this libertarian argument makes sense: mind your own business.

In the real world these non hetero people are murdered, beaten, harassed. So teaching acceptance of these groups is the way that we can get to "just live your life".

Protesting teaching this is the opposite of that: forcing your views on others.

By your own logic you should be rabidly supporting the teaching and acceptance of these views so we can all get back to living our own lives.

The anti-gay movement never stopped. It seemed like people would finally accept that gay people exist and stop discriminating against them in the 90s when homosexuality started to get institutional acceptance and mainstream representation in media. This societal acceptance did tamp down public expressions of anti-gay hate. Unfortunately, the far right never accepted them. Knuckleheads love Trumpism because Trump and his ilk made it semi-acceptable to express hate in public again. You can't blame the gays for coming out to counter-protest those who want to stuff them back in the closet. This isn't really a "both sides" issue. Everyone knows darn well that the gays are a historically oppressed group. They still have to constantly stand up for themselves against people who still hate them and try to demonize or exclude them, or else their status may degrade back to the way it was pre-90s.

"U less you’re actively being harassed or attacked, it doesn’t matter."

That is literally the point though. Homophobes and transphobes are literally physically attacking, murdering, harassing, and legislating the rights away from 2SLGBTQ+ people. Either you are being willfully ignorant, or you're on the side of those doing the oppressing. There is no both sides to this. To be clear, you are on the side of the oppressors if you believe this.

Stop forcing me to accept people who aren't like me but still exist as part society!

/s

Sir, this is a [social media platform].

Oh noes it's a transphobe! /s

I completely agree with this. Too many idiots are out there though