9 posts
September 20, 2025
More than a million Canadian families include transgender loved ones. So why are Canadian conservatives such as Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and OneBC’s chief of staff and leader pushing anti-trans rhetoric? Imported fear campaigns endanger rights and care. They put us all at risk.
May 10, 2025
Since 1679 Habeas Corpus protects against unlawful detention. Suspending it risks authoritarian rule.
March 20, 2025
As law-abiding Canadian, UK, Indian, and German citizens are being arbitrarily detained and mistreated on Republican President Trump Executive Orders, is it dangerous to be a foreigner in the U.S. today?
March 8, 2025
IWD Recap: in the last 48 hours US President Trump has gone after transgender women, trangender children, and women's access to reproductive care.
March 7, 2025
On February 28 2025, AP News reported that Iowa became the first U.S. state to remove gender identity protections from its civil rights code when Gov. Kim Reynolds signed into law a bill that opponents say will expose transgender people and other Iowans to discrimination in all aspects of daily life. When U.S. laws targeting people because […]
February 23, 2025
Genocide is violence that targets individuals because of their membership of a group and aims at the destruction of a group of people. Stages of genocide were outlined by Gregory H. Stanton, the founder of Genocide Watch, in his model of the 10 Stages of Genocide (originally 8 stages, the concept was later expanded to […]
February 22, 2025
The situation for transgender and nonbinary people in the U.S. seems to be worsening and quickly. If history has taught us anything, it’s that when a marginalized group is targeted, escape routes can close quickly. For those paying attention, the writing is on the wall: a combination of restrictive laws, court decisions, and rising hostility […]
February 9, 2025
This info sheet may be of particular interest to US passport holders who are transgender or nonbinary and face passport confiscation when leaving the US at a port of entry. A person can enter Canada at a port of entry even if they did not leave another country through an official port of entry. However, […]
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 […]