Transsexual Activist Denied Ticket in Canadian Local Elections Complains of Disc

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Transsexual Activist Denied Ticket in Canadian Local Elections Complains of Discrimination

http://www.medindia.net/news/Transsexual-Activist-Denied-Ticket-in-Canadian-Local-Elections-Complains-of-Discrimination-41318-1.htm
9/2/2008

She will be lodging a human rights complaint against the city's governing party, she said.

Jamie Lee Hamilton said interviews with two board members of the Non-Partisan Association party about being a candidate in November's municipal elections focused on her sex life.

Hamilton said the interviews made her very uncomfortable.