“I remember the man I would grow up to be at the age of 12” With so many out LGBQ Olympians (T is not included because as far as we know there are no transgender Olympians at this time), for Chris Mosier visibility is a powerful tool for social change. If you can see it, ...

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The difficult decision to fight for transition coverage or do it own your own. Cadence Winter started her life as a women in 2009. For Cadence that meant asking people to address her as Cadence and not her birth name of Matthew. Having already worn makeup since the age of 15, Cadence recalls going out ...

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6 Months in Prison, Social Media Ban A Quebec Man will be spending 6 months in prison and has been banned from using social media for three years after harassing and threatening a transgender women on Twitter. Erick Poulin, 41, sent about twenty hateful tweets in May of 2013 to Michelle Blanc. According to Blanc, ...

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Kenny Cooley says he hopes being open about his experiences encourages young trans and LGBTQ kids to join in sports. A stack of practice football gear might be made of padding and a jersey, but Kenny Cooley sees a milestone. Cooley, a trans Grade 12 student at Halifax West High School and rookie football player, ...

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Exciting news from The Chair in Transgender Studies! We are establishing a set of brand new scholarships and fellowships to be awarded in 2017. Undergraduate and graduate students, and visiting community- and university-based scholars and professionals, both trans and cis (non-trans) will be able to benefit from these awards. Scholarships & Fellowships will be for: ...

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Some two hundred people marched down West Pender Street this afternoon (August 1) in the hope of creating a space for members of Vancouver’s LGBT community who might not have felt comfortable marching in the city’s much larger, annual parade that happened in the West End the day before. In an interview at Victory Square ...

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Make no doubt about it—it’s Morgane Oger’s year. Oger was chosen as a 2016 Vancouver Pride parade grand marshal, won the inaugural trans-activist award at the 2016 Pride Legacy Awards, and flew to Ottawa to witness Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould introduce legislation to include the terms gender identity and gender expression in the Canadian Human ...

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NDP MLA Spencer Chandra Herbert has tried to have B.C. Human Rights Code amended for several years The provincial government plans to table legislation that will explicitly protect gender identity and expression in the B.C. Human Rights Code, Attorney General Suzanne Anton announced Wednesday in Vancouver. “In British Columbia we have a human rights code ...

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