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Ontario politician calls constituent ‘transphobic’ at her doorstep

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TORONTO, Dec. 7, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – A woman in the riding of Parkdale-High Park says she was verbally accosted on her doorstep by her MPP, Cheri DiNovo , after raising concern about Ontario ’s recently passed trangender bill. “She didn’t want to even have a conversation,” says the 49-year- old woman , who spoke to the Family Coalition Party but wished to remain anonymous. “When I tried to defend myself and express my worry that a man, any man, might try to claim to be ‘transgendered’ in order to enter a washroom to rape a girl or young woman, she said ‘that will never happen’.”  Cheri Dinovo “What I’m really upset about is her name calling. She called me ‘transphobic’ several times. A very good friend of my family is transgendered,” the woman added. “I really did try to engage her in a conversation but she didn’t want to talk.” The woman, who lives on Landsdowne Avenue, says she was visited by DiNovo on November 13th as the politician petitioned against the expe

NDP threatens Family Coalition Party with legal action for 'hate literature' mail drop

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TORONTO, October 26, 2012,  – An MPP who sponsored what critics call the “bathroom bill” was irked by a mail drop in her riding last Saturday that questioned her leadership and called for a repeal of the bill. NDP Member of Provincial Parliament Cheri DiNovo   has demanded  an apology from the Family Coalition Party of Ontario and has threatened them with legal action for what she called a “transphobic and hateful piece of literature”. The brochure  features a picture of  a stick-figure man peering over a wall at a stick-figure little girl  in pigtails with the words “Repeal the Bathroom Bill”. Two dozen people handed out about 2,500 brochures on Bloor West in DiNovo’s riding of Parkdale-High Park . The brochure states that “DiNovo’s new ‘Bathroom Bill’ will give men who dress like women access to girl’s washrooms, public, showers, and pool changerooms.” “Maybe it’s time to ask her…Cheri, What were you thinking?” Bill 33, an Act that amended the province’s Human