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Old November 7th, 2021 #1
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Default Anti-trans views are worryingly prevalent and disproportionately harmful, community and experts warn

Anti-trans views are worryingly prevalent and disproportionately harmful, community and experts warn

07/11/2021

Members of transgender and non-binary communities say they're seeing concerning signs that transphobic ideology is worsening in Canada.

Anti-trans sentiments are not new to the country, but several factors make this moment in time fraught, say activists and educators. That's despite the fact that the federal government moved to protect the rights of transgender people in 2017 with the passing of Bill C-16, which made gender identity and expression a protected human rights category.

"The climate for trans people has improved in the last decade very considerably, but we're definitely starting to feel some of those waves of anti-trans activism that have really taken hold in the United Kingdom and in the United States in recent years," said Travers, a professor of sociology at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C, who goes by one name.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/anti-...nada-1.6232947

 
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