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Sex Inscription on the Canadian Passport – Egale Position Paper
Posted: February 1st, 2012Egale Canada, Canada’s national LGBT human rights organization, has undertaken an assessment of how best to accommodate and represent trans and gender diverse people in the Canadian passport, particularly in relation to the inscription of “sex”. Specifically, the following questions have been examined: What are some of the primary concerns facing trans and gender diverse [...]
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12 Months, 221 Murders: Horrifying Numbers a Wake Up Call on Trans Day of Remembrance 2011
Posted: November 18th, 2011FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 18th, 2011 Toronto: Fear and hatred have claimed the lives of 221 people around the world since the commemoration of Trans Day of Remembrance in 2010. This year, on November 20, we remember not only the 221 trans and gender diverse individuals who have been murdered in 26 countries over the [...]
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Transgender Europe’s Trans Murder Monitoring project reveals 221 killings of trans people in the last 12 months
Posted: November 16th, 2011Transgender Europe: Press Release: November 16th 2011 In total, since January 2008 the murders of 755 trans people have been reported The 13th International Transgender Day of Remembrance is being held on November 20th 2011: Since 1999, the Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR), on which those trans people who have been victims of homicide are [...]
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Jack Layton: The LGBT community mourns the loss of a great ally
Posted: August 22nd, 2011Toronto: Today the LGBT community in Canada mourns the loss of a great ally. The Honourable Jack Layton was a man whose principled and unwavering commitment to equality, love and human dignity shone through with every step he took. As a leader whose constant support of the LGBT community reflected nothing other than his staunch [...]
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Egale Canada Announces Partnership with Dr. Barbara Perry, Internationally Renowned Hate Crimes Expert
Posted: July 15th, 2011FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 15 July 2011 Toronto: Egale Canada is excited to announce a new partnership with the internationally renowned Dr. Barbara Perry, a specialist in hate and bias-motivated crime, in response to the terrible upward trend in hate crimes recently revealed by Statistics Canada’s analysis of 2009 police-reported hate crime in Canada. According to [...]
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Every Class in Every School
Posted: May 12th, 2011The first national climate survey on homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia in Canadian schools Final Report – May 2011 Citation: Taylor, C. & Peter, T., with McMinn, T.L., Elliott, T., Beldom, S., Ferry, A., Gross, Z., Paquin, S., & Schachter, K. (2011). Every class in every school: The first national climate survey on homophobia, biphobia, and [...]
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C-389 Moves on to the Senate: Call or Email your Senators Today
Posted: February 14th, 2011FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 13th, 2011 Toronto: Bill C-389, An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code (gender identity and gender expression), passed third reading in the House of Commons on Wednesday, February 9, 2011. It now moves on to the Senate, and with an election looming, it is extremely [...]
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Egale Calls On Senate To Ensure Swift Passage of C-389 As MPs Take A Stand Against Transphobia
Posted: February 9th, 2011Ottawa: Today in the House of Commons, Members of Parliament voted to approve the inclusion of “gender identity” and “gender expression” as prohibited grounds of discrimination in the Canadian Human Rights Act (CHRA), and as relevant factors in hate crimes sentencing under the Criminal Code. “Today’s vote represents a significant step toward explicitly recognizing and [...]
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ACT NOW: Third reading next Monday, February 7, 2011, for Bill C-389, An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code (gender identity and gender expression)
Posted: February 1st, 2011Toronto: Egale has just received confirmation that Bill C-389, An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code (gender identity and gender expression), will now be up for debate and third reading next Monday, February 7, 2011. This means we have less than one week to get as many MPs onside [...]
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German Constitutional Court declares compulsory surgeries unconstitutional
Posted: January 28th, 2011From TGEU TGEU welcomes decision by German Constitutional Court: other countries ought to ban sterilization requirement as not constitutional January 28th 2011 The German Constitutional Court has announced in a press release [1] today that the requirement to undergo sterilization or gender reconstruction surgery is not constitutional. The decision has immediate effect.The plaintiff, a 62 [...]