I will also say that I don’t have a patriotic bone in my body and so I can’t even remotely begin to relate to why it is that people get up in arms when there is a perceived slight against it. But I do know what it’s like to have the crappy elements of your country turned into the whole country and to have to listen to “America sucks, it’s evil, murderers, bastards, greedy capitalists,” etc. I lived in Australia for 3 years, the only American in sight and my first time out of the country (outside of Niagara Falls), in the build up to and the beginning of the Iraq war. I’ve totally been in that position. And my response to all of that was “yeah, I know.”

GG did not say “fuck all Canadians.” Not even remotely. Worst case, her comments can be interpreted as saying “fuck Canada.” Which is not the same. Again, I don’t have a patriotic bone in my body, so when someone says “fuck America,” as they so regularly do, I don’t get all up in arms. But I especially don’t do so when my country has just enacted discrimination against a group that the speaker belongs to.

Is there any country that is not hateful to some group of people? Even looking at only trans people, is there really a country that has done nothing hateful toward trans people in the last decade? You can’t boycott good from every country.

2. Vancouver Rape Relief’s decision to exclude trans women from either volunteering there or receiving services there has been upheld by the canadian supreme court. hence the canadian FEDERAL government has endorsed hate against us.

3. i for one would not be disturbed by a canadian’s decision to boycott the US. both the US and canada are proving to be pretty hateful to a lot of groups of people, and the US is doing a very good job of exporting our brand of hate to canada and to a lot of other countries.

4. your statement sounds uncomfortably close to a “you’re just a mean trans woman” tone argument.

It can also be a physical health concern if transpeople don’t have access to health care. Transpeople who are more visible are often more susceptible to transphobia and transphobic violence. The difference between having access to SRS/GRS and not having SRS/GRS could be the difference between getting raped and not getting raped, being beaten and not being beaten, being killed and not being killed, having a job (thus access to nutritional food, safe housing, etc) and not having a job.

I find the comments about not buying Canadian or supporting Canadian owned products to be extremely offensive. Yes, we have two provinces that are in the wrong, however there are still other provinces where SRS is covered and that is being ignored because of the bigotry of two provinces. Boycotting an entire country for the sake of two provinces is wrong. Would it be fair for me to say that Texas is representative of the US?

I am the first one to say that Canada has its issues, however how much coverage do you receive for SRS in the US? I am quite sure that we do a much better job. I should also point out that what Alberta has done is a violation of our Charter of Rights and Freedoms. They know that the delisting is only temporary because it is a violation of human rights. The same thing was tried in Ontario and over ruled for that very same reason. It may take much longer than it should but this decision will be overturned because the legal framework against such discrimination already exists. Tell me where would I find such a policy in the US?

at this point, i’ll be damned if i will spend a penny visiting that country or purchasing anything from a canadian company or agency.