Transgender Canadians have won a few significant victories in the ongoing struggle for acceptance and recognition
Canada’s transgender community, after lengthy struggles with discrimination and bureaucratic obstacles, is now celebrating a series of significant victories, reports the Montreal Gazette. Montreal’s Concordia University has become the second university in the country to allow transgender students to use their chosen name in class and on their ID. Passport Canada is considering making passports genderless. And, with considerable media attention, Jenna Talackova was given permission to compete in the Miss Universe Canada, held in Toronto.
More recently, the re-elected Progressive Conservative government in Alberta reversed an earlier policy that had delisted sex-change operations in the province.
We speak with Aaron Devor, professor of sociology at the University of Victoria. 405_june_14_2012_sm
