Activists Smash Windows of Montreal CBC Building Following Report on Trans Youth

Following CBC Radio-Canada’s recent coverage of pediatric gender clinics, its Montreal headquarters had its windows smashed by a group of activists who claim the report was a “dishonest attack” on transgender Canadians. “It represents an ideological shift that legitimizes the far right’s transphobic demands, and it will fan the flames of violence against trans communities, currently increasingly targeted,” reads an anonymous statement published on the website Montreal Counter-Information. “Radio-Canada and its journalists have chosen to feed into a moral panic that puts the trans community, and especially trans youth, in danger. The activists took responsibility for the smashing of several windows at the Radio-Canada building on the night of March 12 and 13, claiming it was done in response to the network amplifying “transphobic rhetoric akin to that of the far right.” They accused the journalist behind the article of doing inadequate research into the topic, using disrespectful language, and misgendering trans people....