I would say, speak with us and don't speak over us. I would say, listen to the voices of trans people and understand what's at stake.
There are many Conservatives who are reticent around this direction for the party, and I think that many don't understand what's really going on here.
There is a powerful anti-LGBT lobby. It's tied into a powerful anti-choice lobby and they're trying to use trans people as a scapegoat to mess with access to reproductive health care, to legitimize government putting itself between, again, young people, and families or everyday Canadians and health care that social conservatives simply disagree with.
They're using trans people and anti-trans rhetoric to normalize overriding the charter-protected rights of Canadians. That includes, yes, queer and trans people, but that also includes workers and that includes racialized Canadians and people of various faiths.
I hope folks understand what is at stake here, because, yes, it's my community's equality and rights, but if you allow one community to be stomped on in an environment polluted by hate speech, it takes away the rights of everybody.