Petition for Gender Identity/Expression Protections in British Columbia, Canada

[Shana A]

Petition for Gender Identity/Expression Protections in British Columbia, Canada
Posted by Queers United at 12:27 PM

http://queersunited.blogspot.com/2008/07/petition-for-gender-identityexpression.html

Help the Trans Alliance Society collect signatures for a petition that asks the British Columbia government to add gender identity/expression into the BC human rights code.

"To the Honourable the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, in Legislature Assembled:

The petition of the undersigned, concerned citizens, of the Province of British Columbia, states that:

WHEREAS transsexual, transgender and gender variant persons in British Columbia regularly experience egregious harassment and discrimination in employment, in housing, in health care, in education and in accessing public services, all on the basis of gender identity and gender expression;