Trans Inclusion in Canadian Gendered Spaces: Law, Evidence, and the Limits of Discomfort
January 12, 2026
The recurring trans washroom moral panic isn’t about safety. it’s about fear and politics.
Category: society
33 posts
FIFA Cannot Keep Treating Inclusion as Optional
December 11, 2025
LGBTQ people in Iran and Egypt live under laws that treat their existence as a crime. In Iran, same-sex intimacy can mean prison, flogging, or even execution. In Egypt, “morality” and “debauchery” laws are used to jail people for who they are, how they dress, or what they post online. This is not “cultural difference.” It is state-sanctioned persecution that must be named for what it is.
D+: GenAI Fact Check: Sean Thompson 2022 Think Scotland Article "Railroaded: Gender Recognition Reform and Policy Capture"
April 17, 2025
Dean M Thomson's 2022 article on Scorland's Gender Recognition Reform earns a D+ grade from AI fact checkers. Check the facts before you share disinformation
Liveaboard Households: A Hidden Gem in BC's Housing Crisis?
February 5, 2025
British Columbia is in the throes of a housing crisis. Could making it easier for people to live on boats be part of the solution?
Innovative Living Options Canada Could Make Easier
January 23, 2025
This is episode one of a multi-piece review of alternative housing concepts for BC and Canadian households – centering eventually on suggesting suggesting liveaboard households among other innovative approaches to housing offers significant advantages in addressing the housing crisis in coastal British Columbia. Innovative Living Solutions: Adapting to Canada's Housing Affordability Crisis In recent years, […]
L'éducation à la sexualité à l'école : un droit pour les enfants, un devoir pour l'État
November 14, 2024
L'éducation à la sexualité, un droit fondamental pour les enfants et un devoir de l'État envers eux.
Trans people need help addressing the movement targeting our equality
September 20, 2023
Gender identity or expression was finally added to Canada’s human rights law in 2017 after decades of legal battles and advocacy. We find ourselves once again facing a growing anti-trans campaign in Canada this week. It's time for everyone to please lend a hand…again. I am a transgender mom raising two teenagers in Vancouver while […]
Anti-SOGI Hatred's Consequences Harms The Perpetrator Too
September 16, 2023
There's so much hatred in the air right now. In a society that prides itself on diversity and inclusivity, the surge of hate speech and discriminatory speech, particularly anti-SOGI (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity) rhetoric, presents a concerning paradox. The incitement to discriminate against individuals based on their sexual orientation or gender identity is not […]
Under Inflation's Strain, Foster Unity and Resilience
September 15, 2023
Canadian families are grappling with the significant impact of inflation, which has notably diminished the purchasing power of both renters and homeowners. The Consumer Price Index (CPI), a crucial indicator of living costs, has surged by 14.3% from June 2020 to June 2023. This is hitting hard.
Self Defense in Canada
September 11, 2023
For LGBT and other marginalized groups, understanding the rules of self-defense in Canada can be vital. That's why I looked into it.
Requiring Vaccination At Work Takes Nobody's Rights Away
February 1, 2022
Instead of making things even worse and giving hatred room to express itself, protesting Canadian truckers should have helped their unvaccinated colleagues find solutions when the US closed its doors to them.
On International Women's Day I'd love to talk about Canada's equality system
March 8, 2021
Today is International Women's Day and there are so many things I'd like to talk about. I’d love to talk about how our equality system is framed in Canada. It's such a good system that benefits from a ground-up rewrite in the late 20th century. When I contrast it with what other countries have I […]
Why I Celebrate Labour Day
September 7, 2020
Canada's labour movement trains up future activists to continue the hard work that their elders have started to make Canada more just for us all. Labour has consistently shown up at our side in the advocacy work we've done. They can be counted on to stand up for individual workers and the oppressed in the face of unfairness. Each win they help bring ensures all our children, their children have better lives. On Labour Day, I celebrate this.
Chatting with IntraVenus – on SFU Radio CJSF 90.1
August 6, 2020
Threats from men with guns: Morgane Oger speaks to IntraVenus about running for public office and the consequences it brought, her foray into acting, and how she sees legislation going to protect us all from hatred in Canada – on CJSF 90.1 Simon Fraser University
Temporary Shelter in Parks – Parks Board speaking notes
July 15, 2020
Without safe, governed spaces with basic services in which campers can stay for extended periods of time, without ensuring the safety of everyone in or near our parks, and without addressing dangerous behaviour, the proposed Vancouver Parks Board bylaws intended to govern temporary shelters offers little that is new that we can believe Parks Board staff are in a position to enforce and imposes undue hardship on those whose conduct they are being deployed to address.
Tolerating Police Brutality Against Defenseless People (for being who they are) Brings Predictable Consequences
May 31, 2020
The people governing the U.S. law-enforcement system allowed it to train and employ potentially lethal methods on defensess, handcuffed persons. The officers used these methods and killed George Floyd when they applied excessive and lethal force during his arrest, and there are strong indications his being a Black man was a factor in how he was treated.
Is Canada Contributing To The UK Anti-Trans Violence?
June 27, 2019
Is Canada's unregulated online hate propaganda targeting transgender people contributing to the 81% rise in crimes targeting transgender people in the UK? Equal rights charity Stonewall estimated that two in five trans people had experienced a hate crime or incident in the past year.
The Pulse massacre anniversary reminds us hatred is a social disease we must address
June 12, 2019
On June 12 2016, Orlando's Pulse Nightclub was the scene of a massacre targeting the LGBTQ community. We must stand together to fight off the cultivation of hateful impuses before they become murderous action.
BC Liberals need to jettison their social-conservative fringe and clean up
May 14, 2019
BC Liberals are discovering a problem with building their political movement's coalition around the demands of deeply social-conservative groups is that they can be intransigent and unrepresentative of the values the party really stands for. Count on them to make more messes.
Oak Bay Anti-SOGI Event Illustrates Need For Booking-Policy Review
May 4, 2019
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.
Municipal institutions need to add an anti-discrimination clause to facility rental policies
April 25, 2019
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.
It's the hatred and the harassment, stupid
April 17, 2019
It's not the name calling that gets anti-transgender activists in trouble, it's the harassment. It's the incitement of hatred. It's the acts of prohibited discrimination.
Press Coverage: Oger v Whatcott Human Rights Decision
April 6, 2019
A handy email from R. Franklin Carter compiled a list of coverage of the Oger BC Human Rights Tribunal decision finding Bill Whatcott guilty of violating section 7 of the BC Human Rights Code. R. Franklin Carter is Editor and Researcher of the Freedom of Expression Committee of the Book and Periodical Council, in Toronto, […]
Transgender rights repeatedly stand in Canadian decisions
April 2, 2019
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
March 27, 2019
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.
Audio: Vancouver Rape Relief to be excluded for future contracts until it meets City of Vancouver eligibility criteria on inclusion
March 15, 2019
On March 13, 2019 the Vancouver City Finance and Programs Committee heard from speakers in favour of and opposed to a grant request by Vancouver Rape Relief. This is the audio of the speakers presentations. The city renewed the grant but listed the organization as ineligible for future funding.
Creatures From The Extreme-Right Lagoon
February 21, 2019
New-christian-white-supremacist-entity-on-the-block Resurrection Europa has Very Deep Concerns Indeed about anyone who they do not recognize as cisgender, heterosexual, Caucasian, and Christian.
No Trans advocate: Transgender people who spread anti-Trans propaganda
February 9, 2019
Even if Transgender themselves, a person who oppresses Trans people should not in my eyes be called a trans activist but a TERF or anti-trans activist.
I was at a Meghan Murphy / Lee Lakeman event at my public library
January 12, 2019
I was there, and I hold the Vancouver Public Library and the City of Vancouver responsible for knowingly taking part in Feminist Current and Meghan Murphy publishing hatred to the internet from their facilities.
Human Rights in Doc form
October 30, 2018
People are asking me about the advocacy that led to being honoured with the being awarded the Meritorious Service Medal by the Governor General in the name of the Queen and all Canadians. These two short docs by award-winning filmmaker Christine Lord tell the story of the events between 2014 and 2016 that led to […]
Sex designation: The US explores the wrong path
October 23, 2018
While BC was focusing on our October 20 local elections, the news broke in the US that the Trump administration is seeking to define transgender people out of existence by defining sex as binary and immutable. This is not a good thing. In fact, it is deeply troubling. A recent New York Times article describes the contents […]
Morgane Oger running for Vancouver Board of Education Trustee
September 14, 2018
For immediate release September 14th, 2018 Morgane Oger running for Vancouver Board of Education Trustee http://votemorganeoger.ca Education and human rights advocate Morgane Oger submitted her Nomination papers for Trustee in the 2018 Vancouver School Board election. “Vancouver parents have been asking me to step forward as an independent candidate in this election for some time,” […]
Like The UN, Jesus Would Have Called Conversion Therapy A Hateful Act of Torture. So should our Churches.
September 11, 2018
I was "disappointed" to come across a position today by Glenn Schaeffer of the Lutheran Church of Canada in support of conversion therapy, sometimes called reparative therapy. This is the practice of trying to change the sexuality or gender identity of people. In a recent CBC article, I learned that the Lutheran Church of Canada […]