Liberal Manitoba Candidate Says Vandalizing Posters With Transphobic Insults – Winnipeg | The Canadian News

The election campaign on Provencher’s walk has taken a nasty turn when the liberal candidate says his posters have been vandalized with transphobic insults.

Trevor Kirczenow is openly transgender and says things have gone too far.

“At the beginning of this campaign, my campaign signs started to fade and really go to extremes,” Kirczenow told 680 CJOB. “To the point where 100 signs have been stolen or run over.”

Supporters sent him a message saying that stickers reading “broken” along with a transphobic insult had been placed on the posters in Steinbach and La Broquerie. Says RCMP is investigating.

Kirczenow also ran in 2019 and cannot understand why this hatred has come up this time.

“This campaign feels more intense in all aspects. I don’t know if I am seen as a bigger threat to my conservative opponent this time. “

But he says that up to this point, the electoral experience has been better for him, as he has attracted more volunteers and his conversations at the gates have been more positive.

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Kirczenow is trying to defeat PC incumbent Ted Falk, who has been an MP in the region since 2013.

“Our communities in this drive are full of kind and caring people,” he said. “Even if we don’t always agree on politics, I think most people agree that tampering with a sign in this way is wrong.

The liberal candidate says it has been difficult for him to talk to his children about vandalism.

“At the end of the day, after long conversations, my oldest son told me that you don’t seem broken to me,” Kirczenow said. “I think he is quite right about that. LGBTQ2S people are not broke, we don’t need to be fixed, we don’t need conversion therapy.

“And we are such a diverse group of people. And there is much more to my candidacy than my gender identity ”.