Manitoba appoints Canada's first transgender judge
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In a breakthrough for LGBT Canadians, Canada now has its first known transgender judge.
Manitoba appointed Kael McKenzie, a crown attorney from Winnipeg, to provincial court on December 17.
McKenzie, who is Metis and transitioned from female to male in 2011 and 2012, is a vice-president of the Manitoba Bar Association executive committee and the president of the Rainbow Resource Centre, a Manitoba LGBT and two-spirit organization. He received his law degree from the University of Manitoba in 2006.
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