Press Coverage: Oger v Whatcott Human Rights Decision
A handy email from R. Franklin Carter compiled a list of coverage of the Oger BC Human Rights Tribunal decision
Category: politics
Transgender rights repeatedly stand in Canadian decisions
Anti-transgender propaganda a modern version of a ‘whites only’ sign
We won: Bill Whatcott found to have violated section 7 of BC Human Rights Code
BC tribunal rules that publishing flyers indicating an intention to discriminate on the basis of gender identity and likely to expose an individual and other transgender persons to hatred or contempt violates human rights law.
Someone else’s sex or gender identity takes nothing away from yours
We should accept everyone’s declared sex and gender for two reasons. The ideal idea that anyone’s biology is defined at conception is deeply flawed and in Canada’s legal system the recognition of the sex or gender of others as different than at conception causes no negative consequence on anyone.
Dear Daphna,
All that TERF rhetoric makes you think about how almost all crimes are committed by cisgender people.
[a mediocre parody of hatred]
Proportional representation will flush out the extremists
People are asking me why I am so adamantly in support of proportional representation. Chilliwack MLA Laurie Throness was elected thanks to his anti-LGBT+ support, and kept human rights at bay for years because of the current system.
