Current Events > LGBTQ+ activist Keffals Has Been Swatted by Transphobes

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Keffals/Clara was swatted because she is a vocal proponent of transgender rights. Her life was in danger. I do not know of a single prominent advocate for trans rights who has not faced harassment, threats, and abuse. This is yet another part of the growing anti-trans genocide.
They want to detransition us. They want to pull trans people off of their medication, deny them gender affirming care. They want to take trans kids from their parents. They want to erase trans people, force them from bathrooms and sports. And they want to silence our leaders.

I've been following this and it's fucking awful. I really hope everyone who was responsible for the swatting gets imprisoned for the attempted murder.

What was she arrested for though...?

It doesnt sound like they were swatted at all. They specifically said they were arrested for a crime they didnt commit.

I dont think we can call this a swatting until we find out what that crime was.

It doesnt sound like they were swatted at all. They specifically said they were arrested for a crime they didnt commit.

I dont think we can call this a swatting until we find out what that crime was.

It doesnt sound like they were swatted at all. They specifically said they were arrested for a crime they didnt commit.

I dont think we can call this a swatting until we find out what that crime was.

It's so stupid that swatting even works. Worthless police

What was she arrested for though...?

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yes WTF. Can someone just make a phone call and say a dangerous evil mastermind is at 111 fake st, fictional county, USA and these guys will put on their gear and go full eternal on the person living there ?

yes WTF. Can someone just make a phone call and say a dangerous evil mastermind is at 111 fake st, fictional county, USA and these guys will put on their gear and go full eternal on the person living there ?

It doesnt sound like they were swatted at all. They specifically said they were arrested for a crime they didnt commit.

I dont think we can call this a swatting until we find out what that crime was.

I say they for everyone I dont know personally. Calm down.

Say she, it's literally bullshit to use they when her being a woman is literally the reason she had this happen to her.

Say she, it's literally bullshit to use they when her being a woman is literally the reason she had this happen to her.

Where did you find their preferred pronouns? Should we assume that all women go by she/her?

For instance, I would refer to you as she, because you have stated your pronouns many time in the past. Most of the posters in here never have, so they are they.

Ill even say they 90% of the time when I do know someone personally. You could accuse me of being linguistically lazy, I suppose. I wouldnt even deny it.

If I was a dense as you are acting right now, I'd have distorted reality as I collapse in on myself under the immensity of it all

We need to start prosecuting Swatting as attempted murder

We need to start prosecuting Swatting as attempted murder

I really hope everyone who was responsible for the swatting gets imprisoned for the attempted murder.

Doesn't she make hundreds of thousands per year from patreon and subs? Seems like a cash grab scam attempt after a tragic moment

Her career is not in jeopardy because the police took a few phones and laptops

Unless I'm thinking of someone else

A London, Ont.-based trans activist who's popular on the online platform Twitch says she fears for her life after police officers arrested her at gunpoint and took seriously a threat sent by someone trying to put her life in danger.
Clara Sorrenti, 28, says she was the victim of swatting a practice involving someone calling in a threat to police, resulting in armed officers being sent to another person's home or work.
"The work I do is important and people thank me for doing it every day," Sorrenti told CBC News. "I think I'm still in shock, to be honest. When I saw the police gun pointed at me, I actually thought I was going to die. I've never been that terrified in my life."
Sorrenti goes by Keffals on Twitch, where people can broadcast themselves playing video games. She has more than 42,000 followers and now speaks about American anti-trans legislation and transgender rights. Sorrenti transitioned when she was a teen.

Sorrenti was a candidate for the Communist Party of Canada in the 2019 federal election.
"I get messages almost every day from trans people, especially young trans people, saying that I gave them courage, that they can be who they are," she said. "But people hate me and want to shut me up."
That online harassment has sometimes bled into the real world, Sorrenti said.
On Aug. 5, she said, she was in her apartment and awoken by a number of London police officers banging on her door. They produced a search warrant looking for a handgun, ammunition, firearm cartridges and cleaning tools, a gun case, cellphone and computer.

Threats to city councillors
"The arresting officer pulled me into the hallway, pushed me against the wall, handcuffed me, told me what the charges were. They took me in and searched my apartment for eight hours," Sorrenti said.
Police also used her birth name, Sorrenti said, which isn't what she goes by now. Her former name is also on police documents, even though it is no longer her legal name.

London police said they were contacted on Aug. 5 by city hall officials about violent threats.
"Officers commenced an investigation, and through evidence obtained, were successful in obtaining judicial authority to search a residence" in the city, an officer told CBC News.
"Ms. Sorrenti was arrested as the investigation progressed, and later released without charges pending analysis of electronic devices seized. This investigation is ongoing and at this point in time we cannot provide a firm date as to when it will conclude."
Police told Sorrenti that someone had used her name and address to send threats to London city councillors and confess to a murder, which led to the police raid, she said. The person who wrote the threats also used the name she was given at birth, something that should have sent off alarm bells if police were sensitive to trans issues, Sorrenti said.

"No one in my life refers to me by that name. It's been a decade since anyone has done that. The only reason people might use it is to mock me, to try to take away my power and dignity."
Her brother spoke to London police in March to warn them that Sorrenti might become a victim of swatting, she said.
Similar threatening emails were sent on July 31 to politicians in Toronto.
She said Toronto police spoke to her and chalked the incident up to an attempted swatting. Toronto police told CBC News they have an open file and the incident is still under investigation.
Sorrenti wants police to get better training in how to treat transgender people. She has also set up an online fundraiser that has raised almost $32,000 in five hours. The money is to relocate, because someone with ill intentions has her address, Sorrenti said.

It's such bullshit that this happens and people still keep piling on us.

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they can be used as a general term

using the wrong pronouns is misgendering. full fucking stop.

doing so after you've been corrected is being a gaping asshole. stop it.

doing so in a topic where someone was just set up to be murdered? fuck all the way off.