B.C. Liberal, NDP leadership contenders urged to protect transgender rights

By Stephen Hui, January 4, 2011

http://www.straight.com/article-366899/vancouver/bc-liberal-ndp-leadership-contenders-urged-protect-transgender-rights

A transgender community leader is calling on candidates for the leadership of British Columbia's two main political parties to enshrine transgender rights in the province's Human Rights Code.

Marie Little, chair of the Trans Alliance Society, is urging declared and prospective B.C. Liberal and NDP leadership contenders to commit to changing the law in order to prohibit discrimination on basis of gender identity and gender expression.

Little told the Georgia Straight that transgender people are often forced out of their jobs and rental housing by transphobic employers and landlords.