Flyer campaign targets NDP candidate's transgender identity - News Summed Up

Flyer campaign targets NDP candidate's transgender identity


The NDP candidate for Vancouver-False Creek says she's concerned about the impact of a set of flyers distributed in her riding targeting her transgender identity and the LGBTQ community in general. The flyers — distributed throughout Yaletown — target NDP candidate Morgane Oger by purporting to reveal her male birth name and old photograph. It disparages her transgender identity, using derogatory and graphic language. 's first openly transgender woman to be nominated by a major political party. "They're going to see that if they're discovered or someone wants to pick on them, someone might do that to them."


Source: CBC News April 28, 2017 20:01 UTC



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