A socialist Canadian lawmaker drew gales of mockery for showing just how woke she is — by casually dropping the acronym MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ while speaking at a live press conference.
Leah Gazan, 53, uncorked the new ultra-lefty term while bemoaning $7 billion in budget cuts to a pair of federal indigenous departments.
Leah Gazan debuted the absurdly long 16- character LGBTQ acronym during a recent press conference. Library of Parliament “When the Budget was released, I was shocked to find out that Prime Minister Carney is cutting $7 billion between Indigenous Services Canada and Crown-Indigenous Relations,” the Canadian lawmaker said, footage shared by Juno News shows.
“They provided $0 to deal with the ongoing genocide of MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+,” she said with a totally straight face and, impressively, without so much as looking down at her notes.
The 16-characters in MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ stand for “Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, and Asexual,” with the plus-sign encompassing any other gender-identity not covered by the nearly paragraph-long initialism. The gigantically long acronym is used by the Canadian government to highlight rates of violence against Indigenous women and girls.
Gazan, whose X handle is “Leah ProudLakota (she/her),” later took to X to tout her appearance at the press conference, in which she scaled back the farcically long acronym to the Canadian standard “2SLGBTQQIA+.”
She locked down comments on the post in an apparent attempt to stanch the torrent of mockery her made-up acronym invited.
She was immediately mocked online, even locking down her X post about her press conference appearance to prevent the ridicule from spreading. Facebook/Leah Gazan “She is so serious and has zero self-awareness of how ridiculous she sounds,” one user wrote.
“New super strong password just dropped,” another commenter mocked the far-left lawmaker.
“So, if I understand this correctly, straight people are now included as long as they’ve been murdered?” a third inquired.
The lefty MP faced controversy in 2022 with an X post baselessly and incorrectly claiming the US aid being sent to Ukraine was being sent to “antisemitic, neo-Nazi & fascist militia.”
The Ukrainian Canadian Congress asked for a retraction and apology, which Gazan did not provide.
The MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ fiasco isn’t the first time Canada has gone viral for making up a mouthful of an acronym to represent the gay and queer community.
In 2017, the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario went viral for a flyer advertising a “LGGBDTTTIQQAAPP” inclusiveness training session.
“LGGBDTTTIQQAAPP” stands for “lesbian, gay, genderqueer, bisexual, demisexual, transgender, transsexual, twospirit, intersex, queer, questioning, asexual, allies, pansexual, polyamorous.”
The Post reached out to Gazan but did not immediately hear back.
