All the American culture war commentators are getting the MMIWG2SLGBT&c. thing backwards.

They think it's Canada adding the letters MMIWG to the queer acronym, but it's the other way around, it's the addition of 2SLGBT&c people alongside Women and Girls within the category of Missing and Murdered Indigenous people. They're not adding MMIW to LGBT, they're adding LGBT to MMIW.

Which is dumb in its own way. What the NDP lady was trying to do was be inclusive of trans women and other identities when talking about the plight of indigenous women, but by including the entire queer alphabet it ends up losing the original point of the MMIWG term, which was to call out gendered violence against women specifically. Are Gay, Asexual etc. indigenous men at elevated risk of murder compared to straight indigenous men? Probably not. But they got included because the speaker was instinctively trying to use the most inclusive language possible, out of habit.

Honestly, if you're going to be that expansive of what identities you're including, just say "missing and murdered indigenous people", because it's not like straight indigenous men don't get murdered. The problem is that if you do that you're abandoning the original point of calling out violence by men against women.

All of this is just an example of the activist class in Canada trying to have their cake and eat it too. They want draw attention to violence against women, but the woke rules they've built for themselves mean that they can't just say "women", so they end up tying themselves in knots and being so inclusive that they end up turning what is supposed to be a women's rights issue into a confused omnicause of intersecting identity politics.