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Metro Vancouver-raised Lindsay Shepherd, 24, has been accused of many unseemly things in the past year.

But a sit-down with the former Sir Wilfrid Laurier University teaching assistant, who was thrust into the news in late 2017 when she exposed the way her Ontario professors accused her of creating a “toxic environment” in her class after raising the issue of gender pronouns, quickly reveals there is no substance to the demonized portrait.

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Her former professors, Nathan Rambukkana and Herbert Pimlott, recently upped the pressure on her reputation by counter-suing her, after she claimed their accusations had made her unemployable in academia. That’s despite the professors’ early apology and severe admonishment from their own university for attempting to silence her.

Who is Shepherd? One thing she is not, despite accusations, is of the religious right, let alone an opponent of homosexual relationships. She supports Canada’s gay marriage laws. And as a young person, she found Vancouver Pride parades to be “kind of fun.”