The anti-LGBTQ+ hate is a threat to Democracy itself. Hate Crimes are something no LGBTQ+ person should have to experience, but hate leads to violence, and even murder. ISIS terrorists punish LGBTQ+ people to death. Religion can play a role in the ideology why someone would try and end someones life, religion has a very long history fueling bigotry and hate, religion can be interpreted differently. So many millions of people have killed in the name of god over history. Freedom, or fascism? This shouldn't be a hard choice, ever since Trump went really anti-trans in the past few years, it's grown in Canada to the point people have been burning, defacing, destroying the Pride Flag in some way practically every single day during pride month and even many days after June! I've noticed the American influence. Some countries don't allow their public to communicate with the outside world so we can't get a full picture maybe every day a pride flag was destroyed, and some people don't report their pride flag destroyed, hundreds have been destroyed by bigots in Ontario, Canada alone just this year! Hate has been growing in the past few years. At the same time American influence has impacted Canada from authoritarian Republican anti-trans states, authoritarian anti-LGBTQ+ dictatorships on the other side of the world are also publishing anti-LGBTQ+ propaganda to fuel hate and discrimination, maybe not influencing as much but still. Were seeing Muslims protest against LGBTQ+ rights here in Canada, not just Christians.
During Pride Month Muslim parents encouraged their kids to stomp on Pride flags in an act of hate
Nature expresses itself across the entire LGBTQ+ spectrum, you have animals that will have intercourse with more than just opposite sex, some species can naturally transition from male to female, some other species can transition from female to male, some species reproduce on their own, some species are all female. There is literally more to gender in nature but you have authoritarian dictatorships around the world against human rights, against LGBTQ+ rights, anti-freedom, anti-science. Pride not being supported by society is very harmful to the mental health of LGBTQ+ people, people who are gay, or trans are born that way, the information and support is supposed to be there so people can not suffer and be free to be themselves without being hated for being different. Religion is the biggest source of bigotry and hate in the world, mainly Christianity and Islam.
The rise of authoritarianism in Republican states in the United States has really done a lot of damage to appeal to bigots who might not mind authoritarianism if it means getting rid of trans people. Trump supporters have been using genocidal language against trans people in 2023! Makes you wonder how Muslims could side with Conservatives who are anti-immigration.
Grand Mufti of Jerusalem reviewing Muslim Nazi troops in 1944
Saudi Arabia is an anti-LGBTQ+ dictatorship, Qatar is an anti-LGBTQ+ dictatorship, the FIFA World Cup was held in an abusive anti-LGBTQ+ dictatorship! Being gay there is punishable by death. That's nowhere near the freedom we have here in the developed world with Democracy, where we respect the rights of the individual to have the pursuit of happiness, such as freedom of religion and more, and by developed world I mean developed in democracy terms, not buildings. Qatar have a government funded media called Al Jazeera who support and encourage anti-LGBTQ+ hate and discrimination. ISIS terrorists are anti-LGBTQ+. These fascist oil cartels don't care if they destroy the planet they would burn every cannabis plant during a climate crisis, they don't want hemp to fairly compete as a renewable energy source. There are other Muslim based countries who oppose LGBTQ+ rights and don't care about human rights, there are several Christian based countries who oppose LGBTQ+ rights, Russia is extremely anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+, several countries in Africa are anti-LGBTQ+, and several have harsh laws such as the death penalty! Even
the pope spread hate and discrimination against trans people with misinformation. Florida practically turned into a
fascist state by Ron DeSantis with the don't say gay bill and other anti-trans laws, banning books and just ridiculous stuff in the "war against woke" rise of hate, some of the anti-trans laws in the United States Republican states anti-trans laws were found unconstitutional by judges! Trump and DeSantis were basically competing who is the bigger bigot during covid it really escalated after Trump lost the 2020 election. Some Republicans are not liking the division, even Trump criticized DeSantis for his war against Disney going too far. It's doubtful DeSantis would stand a chance winning he would be even worse he's already got an ideology of running that would be in violation of needing to go through congress, Republicans won't be able to win over many moderates and independents with their far right hate, I don't even think they are smart enough to not spread hate and start apologizing for spreading hate and support trans rights to have a United States. The Nazis thought they were doing good getting rid of LGBTQ+ information and people, do Conservatives even know history anymore or did nothing stick as a warning what can go wrong when hateful ideology takes hold?
Maxime Bernier is leader of the Peoples Party of Canada, a far right proto-fascist Trump supporter. How can any Muslim support anti-immigration? I do agree immigration needs to be realistic, we don't have the housing available for Canadians, let alone all the people immigrating here. Government has been ignoring the issue for too long and took too long to start taking action so it will take time. Some Conservatives in Canada are also Trump supporters, supporting bigotry, hate and a criminal who denies the results of the 2020 election and undermines Democracy. Trump has been indicted so many times in many criminal cases it's not even funny. There were several bomb threats against schools and hospitals earlier this year from anti-trans extremists in the United States, and Canada! Trump has got progressively worse in his hate since he lost the election he is literally on a path to fascism, there may not be another legitimate election if Trump gets his way bullying trans people out of existence and making sure support for LGBTQ+ people is something kids no longer learn is the right thing to do, some states tried introducing or are trying to introduce bans on health care for trans adults, it was never about the kids. Republicans don't want kids to grow up in a supportive environment. Republicans hate how so many younger people are accepting and not full of hate like them, some even want to raise the voting age to 25 because they don't trust young people to make the right decision!
Voting for the party that supports LGBTQ+ rights is the only rational choice, freedom of expression might not mean anything to the fascists who oppose pride flags and information in society. I don't see Conservatives or Republicans condemning anti-trans hate or anti-LGBTQ+ hate in general so many incidents go by and once in a while they will say something like Ted Cruz condemning Uganda's anti-LGBTQ+ law allowing the death penalty! Ted Cruz got criticism from the far right for condemning a human rights abuse! I'm pretty sure a shocking number of people today would literally support the Nazis who were anti-LGBTQ+ as well and committed genocide against minorities! Quite a number of people still support Trump after he undermines democracy and still claims the 2020 election was stolen after losing many lawsuits and being indicted for criminal offenses so bad Georgia had to use RICO laws which are normally used for organized crime figures! Judges had to tell Trump not to say anything threatening against witnesses and people involved. Look at people who oppose LGBTQ+ information in schools to make LGBTQ+ kids feel safe and accepted in society, nobody chooses to be gay, or trans. Democracy is at risk when LGBTQ+ people don't have rights to live without discrimination. Having acceptance saves lives, LGBTQ+ people are more likely to commit suicide, anti-LGBTQ+ bullies literally tell kids to go die, we need to make sure all kids have a safe environment to grow up in, bigotry must be condemned and opposed, I don't care if your Muslim or Christian, just keep your religious bigotry out of our public schools and stop using religion to justify discrimination. Not wanting to be friends with someone because they are LGBTQ+ is bigotry and shows religious people are not that compatible with modern democracy trying to erode human rights in developed democracies, we already had a Dark Age where religion ruled the world, lots of people died. The church used to oppose science how Earth was not the center of the universe. Religion is trying to suppress LGBTQ+ people yet again in history and ignore science. You can't oppose human rights, fuel hate and pretend your going to heaven, your literally going against your own bible at that point. Doesn't god say he loves all, love thy neighbor, not discriminate against thy neighbor? Don't wonder why religion declines when religion fuels hate and discrimination so much.