Equality, Trans rights, Justice, Inclusion,…Politics
No matter who they are or what they believe, people who incite discrimination on prohibited grounds are inciting others to break the law. This be stopped from doing it in a rented space.
On April 24 2019, I asked VSB Trustees that the Vancouver Public Library Library follow the example of the Toronto Public Library and reserve the right to deny or cancel a booking as follows when it reasonably believes use by any individual or group will be for a purpose that is likely to promote, or would have the effect of promoting discrimination, contempt or hatred for any group or person on the basis of prohibited grounds.
A handy email from R. Franklin Carter compiled a list of coverage of the Oger BC Human Rights Tribunal decision
Anti-transgender propaganda a modern version of a ‘whites only’ sign
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.
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.
All that TERF rhetoric makes you think about how almost all crimes are committed by cisgender people.
[a mediocre parody of hatred]
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.
