Login / RegisterB.C. NDP MLA Spencer Chandra Herbert introduces transgender rights bill
Spencer Chandra Herbert says transgender people should be explicitly protected from discrimination by the B.C. Human Rights Code.
The NDP MLA for Vancouver-West End is introducing in the legislature today (May 26) a member’s bill called the Gender Identity and Expression Human Rights Recognition Act.
Herbert’s legislation would add “gender identity” and “gender expression” to the prohibited grounds for discrimination in the code.
“While the courts have read certain protections for gender identity and expression into our human rights legislation, it is important for the government to recognize transgendered people, by explicitly including them in the human rights code,” Chandra Herbert said in a news release. “Transgendered people still face incredible barriers to employment and housing, and face discrimination and the threat of violence almost everywhere they go.”
In the NDP release, Marie Little, chair of the Trans Alliance Society, said the bill would make it clear to employers, landlords, and restaurateurs that transgender people are protected.
Earlier this year, during an interview with the Straight, Little had called on the B.C. Liberal and NDP leadership contenders to enshrine transgender rights in the code.
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I other words, if Grampa has a problem, then he can sell the motel to someone who doesn't.
If you read the article, you certainly didn't understand it.
What might seem fair on its face - can translate to an absolute disaster once in play ------------ as it was under former BC NDP Attorney General (Dosanjh) and kook squad leader Mary Woo Sims--
we need to stop this human rights tribunal nonsense ---- and permit those persons who believe their human rights have been harmed-- to go to provincial court - special registry-- where they can commence claims at no cost if accepted--and receive some legal guidance - but NOT in a quasi criminal context as the BC Human Rights Tribunal is --- this is crazy pure and simple. Two punks rape torture and murder a young woman--laugh about it and might be out in ten years - me and a blind guy allegedly stare to 18 months - and I end up with a ruined business - and much worse-------that my friends is just one sordid story from this ridiculous BCHRT
I was forced to confront an ----unequivocally provable lie---- from one end to the next - perjury by lawyers - Tribunal members--and lost millions of dollars-millions of hard earned independent dollars//that no elected official in this province could have produced - because of policy on the crazy--by appointed people with control issues and little or no discernable skill sets.
Sorry - these are the facts - and don't think it couldn't happen to you.
Say No to BCHRT--
I have seen butch women fired for getting a haircut.
I have seen FtMs have to leave public schools where they feared for their lives and the (taxpayer funded) administration refused to intervene.
I have seen feminine men who will never get past a job interview for being "too swishy."
I see genderqueers threatened in washrooms.
I see trans couples denied housing. I see transsexuals being told that they will be fired if they seek medical treatment. I see gender variant people being bullied all at every age.
It is long overdue that gender expression and identity become unlawful grounds for discrimination. I am glad to see that after decades of activism, someone in government has the guts to *do* something about it.