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TORONTO — Several hundred protesters gathered Tuesday evening outside a Toronto library hosting an event that featured a speaker opposed to transgender rights.

A number of prominent authors and many in the LGBTQ2 community had called on the Toronto Public Library to cancel the talk by Megan Murphy, titled “Gender Identity: What Does It Mean For Society, The Law and Women?” and hosted by a group called Radical Feminists Unite.

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The library, however, allowed the event to continue, citing the right to free speech.

“Trans rights are human rights!” the crowd gathered outside the Palmerston library in downtown Toronto.

Murphy, a freelance writer who runs the website “Feminist Current,” has written that “allowing men to identify as women” endangers women and undermines women’s rights.

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Gwen Benaway, a transgender writer who won the Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry earlier in the day, said she was at the protest to continue the fight for trans rights.