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Feelings shifted from pride to pain for a transgender professor at the University of Calgary after the school tweeted about her transition then allegedly ignored her complaints to remove derogatory comments from the replies.

The tweet, which has since been deleted, was posted in celebration of Pride week and shared an outdated article about Chris Macnab’s personal story of coming out on campus. Macnab said the school did not ask her permission to post the article or associated photo.

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At first, she felt honoured they were recognizing her during Calgary Pride week but then she read the comments.

“I had this weird, sinking feeling in my stomach,” said Macnab, who is an associate professor in the electrical and computer engineering department.

Some responses were crude, transphobic and included crass language.

Rather than letting the hateful comments linger without response, Macnab chose to reply to some of them.