Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Alberta Transgender Rights Tipping Point?
Posted by Monica Roberts at 2:35 PM
http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2009/04/alberta-transgender-rights-tipping.htmlThe abolitionist Frederick Douglass once stated in 1892, "Find out what people will submit to and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them."
It looks as though the Conservative dominated provincial government is learning that they've gone past the level of injustice that Alberta's transgender community will tolerate.
Sometimes the 'I've had it' tipping point can be something small. Other times it's something so blatantly egregious you just can't stomach it anymore. You decide to fight and it leads to not only an end to the problem that led you to mobilize to fight the injustice in the first place, but empowers people through your example to fight for greater civil rights protections.
