http://childrenshospitalblog.org/legislating-equal-rights-for-transgender-people/ Children's Hospital Boston's pediatric health blog Sun, 18 Dec 2011 15:38:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://childrenshospitalblog.org/legislating-equal-rights-for-transgender-people/comment-page-1/#comment-1526 Bill C389 Sun, 15 Aug 2010 23:31:00 +0000 http://childrenshospitalblog.org/?p=254#comment-1526 In Canada, we are trying very hard to get similar protections passed at the federal level. Bill C-389 would add gender identity and expression as prohibited grounds of discrimination in the Canadian Human Rights Act and the hate crimes provisions of the Criminal Code, offering trans and gender-variant people the same protections as are available on the basis of race, religion, and sexual orientation. It has already passed second reading and will go to committee in the fall. In Canada, we are trying very hard to get similar protections passed at the federal level. Bill C-389 would add gender identity and expression as prohibited grounds of discrimination in the Canadian Human Rights Act and the hate crimes provisions of the Criminal Code, offering trans and gender-variant people the same protections as are available on the basis of race, religion, and sexual orientation. It has already passed second reading and will go to committee in the fall.

]]> http://childrenshospitalblog.org/legislating-equal-rights-for-transgender-people/comment-page-1/#comment-1527 Bella Sun, 08 Aug 2010 20:33:00 +0000 http://childrenshospitalblog.org/?p=254#comment-1527 As a transgendered woman, I have had to survive violence and every sort of discrimination, if men and women are truely equal, then transsexuals ought to be afforded the respect given to other citizens. I am offended that my human rights are still "being debated" in my states legislature. Unless this legal protection is enacted, trans teens can expect to be only second class citizens in our supposed commonwealth. As a transgendered woman, I have had to survive violence and every sort of discrimination, if men and women are truely equal, then transsexuals ought to be afforded the respect given to other citizens. I am offended that my human rights are still “being debated” in my states legislature. Unless this legal protection is enacted, trans teens can expect to be only second class citizens in our supposed commonwealth.

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