Op-Ed

Katherine Jameson Digby attends the City of Ottawa’s “Ottawa Stops Hate Together” session in search of answers about the stalled Women and Gender Equity Strategy. What follows is a sharply observed account of city equity officials, contested ideas about hate and inclusion, and the complete disregard for women’s sex-based rights in Ottawa ’s DEI framework.

The government did not create gender identity ideology. But it institutionalized it, gave it legal force, and sent it cascading through every department, every policy framework, every form in the country. — Nina Tryggvason

Gender Dissent's woman on the ground, *Canadian female human*, sends in this report following her second time attending caWsbar's annual conference.

Perhaps using “female” on women’s paperwork was by design, opting us all into Gender Identity without ever having to explain what it means. After all, women may not know what Gender Identity means but we know we’re female.

Woke compassion, with its focus on inclusion and empathy, is a form of idiot compassion. Enabling by validation of a false identity or delusion is also idiot compassion. Idiot compassion often is more about the ego of the person providing the inclusivity and kindness. It is performative. Pure optics. We see this when someone dissents to cult beliefs.

OTTAWA, Canada — October 21, 2025 — Trans-identified influencer Fae Johnstone, best known for usurping roles and titles formerly reserved for Canadian women, became the first male recipient of the annual Ottawa Famous Five Award. Special reporter Katherine Jameson Digby was on the scene and provides some history and some highlights from the "celebration."