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.

Ask the questions that trans activists don’t want us to ask. We all know why they don’t want to hear them. Because they cannot answer them without their house of cards falling down.

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.