She spouted anti-trans lies to oppose a rainbow crosswalk. Now she’s facing consequences.

She spouted anti-trans lies to oppose a rainbow crosswalk. Now she’s facing consequences.

In a hearing convened by Canada’s Alberta Human Rights Tribunal on Monday, the lawyer for an anti-transgender advocate in the small town of Westlock (90 miles north of Edmonton), argued that a flyer distributed by her client calling on residents to protest the installation of a rainbow crosswalk with a trans flag was not hate speech, but an exercise in “free speech.” “Could it be upsetting? Yes. Could it cause hurt feelings? Yes. But does it cau…