Herald NewsTransgender rights soughtJuly 27, 2012 - 9:47am By LOIS LEGGE Features Writer
http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/121443-transgender-rights-sought
LGBT activist Kevin Kindred poses for a portrait in Halifax on Friday. Efforts are being made to include the group in the provincial human rights act. (DEVAAN INGRAHAM)They're a small, misunderstood segment of the population.
But they face some of the biggest hurdles toward equality.
Getting a job.
Accessing the right health care.
Even walking safely down the street can be struggles for transgender people, a provincial activist group says.
So the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project is calling on the province to give them specific protection under the law. The non-profit group wants the government to add transgender people to the Nova Scotia Human Rights Act.
And the group — which works on behalf of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people — will be pushing for that protection at today's 25th annual gay pride parade in Halifax, carrying placards and circulating a petition for the cause.
