{"id":9964,"date":"2024-09-19T21:05:54","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T01:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=9964"},"modified":"2024-09-19T21:06:21","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T01:06:21","slug":"alberta-mla-who-was-booted-out-of-the-united-conservative-party-for-her-negative-views-on-the-transgendered-is-berated-by-a-tranny-drag-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=9964","title":{"rendered":"Alberta MLA Who Was Booted Out of the United Conservative Party for Her Negative Views on the Transgendered is Berated By A Tranny Drag Queen https:\/\/"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Alberta MLA Who Was Booted Out of the United Conservative Party for Her Negative Views on the Transgendered is Berated By A Tranny Drag Queen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Y\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 An exiled Alberta MLA who has been under instructions to \u201crebuild trust\u201d with the LGBT community has become the subject of a viral video in which one of those trust-building sessions features her being berated by an activist who moonlights as a drag queen named Karla Marx.\u00a0

Karla Marx is the stage name of Calgary\u2019s Victoria Bucholtz, a trans activist who goes by the pronouns she\/her \u2014 and is also a Mount Royal University sessional instructor specializing in German history<\/a>.\u00a0During a virtual roundtable with Alberta MLA Jennifer Johnson, Bucholtz opened by asking the Lacombe-Ponoka representative \u201cwill you state on the record that trans women are women?\u201d\u00a0 Johnson said, \u201cI\u2019ve never been asked that before,\u201d and then said she \u201cwanted time to think on that.\u201d\u00a0

To this, Bucholtz vowed to \u201cspeak out against this meeting.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m not going to be your pink-washing unless you can tell me right now that you believe that I, as a trans woman \u2026 am a woman, then we don\u2019t have a lot to work on here,\u201d said Bucholz, adding, \u201cIf you can\u2019t start with that basic foundation principle that we are who we say we are \u2026 then I don\u2019t think we\u2019re on the same page.\u201d\u00a0Bucholz then gave Johnson \u201cone more chance\u201d to agree that trans women are women, but signed off with a smile and a wave when Johnson replied, \u201cCan we disagree and still respect each other?\u201d\u00a0

Clips of the encounter have been seen more than a million times on social media, and garnered notice from Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, a vocal critic of gender identity activism. \u201cHonestly, you don’t even need to turn up the sound,\u201d wrote Rowling against a post on X describing Bucholtz as a \u201cman attempting to control a woman.\u201d\u00a0 Bucholtz, meanwhile, did indeed \u201cspeak out\u201d against the meeting. \u201cToday several members of the queer community met with MLA Jennifer Johnson \u2026 she refused to say on the record that trans women are women. No Jennifer, you haven\u2019t done the work,\u201d posted Bucholtz to an X account under the name KarlaMarx1917, and adorned with a banner featuring a sickle crossed with an ejaculating penis.\u00a0

Johnson was expelled as a candidate for the United Conservative Party in 2023 after audio was released of her saying that gender ideology in the public school curriculum was similar to ruining a batch of cookies with a “teaspoon of poop.”\u00a0\u201cIt does not matter that we\u2019re in the top three per cent of the world. Who cares if they got 89 per cent in Chemistry 30? Who cares that they\u2019re entering post-secondary \u2014 if they\u2019re chemically castrated?\u201d Johnson can be heard saying in the recording.\u00a0Alberta Premier Danielle Smith called it a \u201cvile\u00a0analogy\u201d and declared that if Johnson won her riding she would not be allowed to sit in the UCP caucus.\u00a0

Johnson then proceeded to win her riding by one of the widest margins in the province (67 per cent against 23.5 per cent for her NDP challenger) and has been sitting as an independent ever since.\u00a0 In an apology issued shortly after her ejection from the UCP, Johnson said \u201calthough I am concerned about potentially life altering medical procedures for young children, this is an extremely sensitive topic for so many and I need to do a much better job communicating my concerns and objectives.\u201d\u00a0

Smith has signalled the possibility<\/a> that Johnson may be let back into caucus. But in a statement to Global News this week, the premier\u2019s office said that Johnson \u201chas some work to do to rebuild trust and relationships in the LGBT+ community.\u201d

Numerous commenters had framed the Bucholtz encounter as being part of a mandatory session that had been ordered by Smith \u2014 a claim that Johnson dismissed in a Facebook statement.\u00a0\u201cThis meeting was at the request and arranged by a constituent of the Lacombe-Ponoka riding, and I was happy to accept their invitation to meet,\u201d wrote Johnson. In addition to Bucholtz, the meeting had featured representatives of the Lacombe Pride Society, Ponoka Pride Society and the Central Alberta Pride Society.\u00a0\u201cDanielle Smith, her office, and the UCP caucus and party were in no way involved in or aware of this meeting and, contrary to speculation, this meeting has nothing to do with my future as an Independent Member of the Legislature.\u201d<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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