A candidate for the B.C. Green Party was outed as transgender during a news broadcast Monday. Nicola Spurling, who is running for the party in Coquitlam-Maillardville, was featured in a Global B.C. story about four transgender candidates aiming "to make history" in this year's provincial election.

Global said it got the names of the B.C. Green Party candidates, Spurling and Veronica Greer, from the party itself. But in a Facebook post, Spurling said she didn’t give her consent for the party to release that personal info or for it to be included in the news story.

She suspects her name was brought up in conversations between a reporter and the party’s communications team because of her work as a vocal LGBTQ rights advocate. "I was not directly contacted, because an assumption was made that I was out." She learned about the TV segment when others saw the broadcast and sent her messages. "Now that it is out, I will own this, and continue to advocate for trans people, as I have been doing," she said.