Trans News/ Issues

[Linus]

Originally Posted by EnderD_503

http://www.xtra.ca/public/National/F...tee-13707.aspx



Still unsure how I feel about it, and it won't actually change much for a lot of trans people when it comes to housing and employment...in most cases people don't tell you to your face that they won't rent to you or hire you/fired you because your trans and this kind of stuff only really helps in the "obvious" cases. It's society and the education system itself that needs to change so that people aren't such assholes generally, and I don't think this piece of legislation will really help it do that.

It won't change people but at least it will protect trans when this can be proved (akin to discrimination that's happened to various gays in Canada, vis-a-vis gay marriage). It really should be a two-pronged approach but given who's in charge of the gov't, I'm impressed that this is even being considered at this point.