Canada’s Spy Agency Warns of ‘Violent Threat’ by ‘Anti-Gender Movement’ in Annual Report

Published on May 9, 2024

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service warns that some Canadians in the “anti-gender movement” will continue to pose a “violent threat” within the next year, according to its newly tabled annual report. “CSIS assesses that exposure to entities espousing anti-gender extremist rhetoric could inspire and encourage serious violence against the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, or against those who are viewed as supporters of pro-gender ideology policies and events,” the agency said in the report released on May 7. The CSIS report identified the “anti-gender movement” as one defined by ideological opposition to the “socio-cultural shifts that are represented by the integration and acceptance of gender theory, including acceptance of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community.”...