Best of Vancouver communities: Transitioning to a bright future
By Jeremy Hainsworth
http://www.straight.com/article-258872/transition-bright-future (http://www.straight.com/article-258872/transition-bright-future)
She's big, she's bold, and she may as well have brass balls. And you might as well get used to her because she isn't going away.
She is Jamie Lee Hamilton, the public face of Vancouver's transgender community.
Hamilton has run for MP, city council, and park board, and she says a lot of her political activism has aimed to lift the profile of transgender people across Canada.