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Transgender: the margin of the margin

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Transgender: the margin of the margin

http://thevarsity.ca/2015/09/13/transgender-the-margin-of-the-margin/

The Varsity/By Shahin Imtiaz   Published: 8:58 pm, 13 September 2015

""If Pride is a loving family, members of the trans community are the strange cousins," says Dawna Armstrong. She reminisces back to 1996, the year she was the first trans-woman to have taken on her employers in a legal battle for human rights violation, and win. "This set precedence," she says, "they then added 'gender-identity' to Canada's standard against workplace discrimination.""
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