Trans Human Rights: The Next Frontier

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• Rainbow Health Network

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• Trans Health Lobby Group
• Susan Gapka, Chair
• E-mail gapka_gp_at_yahoo.com
• transhumansrightscampaign_at_yahoo
  .ca
• Web www.transhumanrightscampaign.org
• www.rainbowhealthnetwork.ca
• Telephone [phone]

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• I argue that transsexuals are continually and
  perpetually erased in the cultural and
  institutional world.
• (Namaste, Vivianne. Invisible Lives The Erasure
  of Transsexual and Transgendered People. p.2.
  Chicago University of Chicago Press, 2000.)

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My Name Is Susan

• I am an ordinary person,
• Facing extraordinary challenges.
• My name is Susan.
• I spell my name on the telephone,
• S U S A N, S U S A N
• Yes, that is my name. Cant you see?
• Once you meet me, youll agree.

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My Name Is Susan (2)

• Riding the transit one quiet day,
• Rambunctious youth a jumpin
• Too many times upon my foot.
• I demand - Stop your stompin!
• Quickly they turn upon me,
• Onto the floor I land.
• I scamper to the front of the bus
• With one of my shoes in hand.

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My Name Is Susan (3)

• I am a political person.
• It is justice that I seek.
• My opponents conspire against me,
• And sometimes call me a freak.
• I am an ordinary woman,
• Facing extraordinary challenges.
• My name is Susan.
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• Human Rights Code Amendment Act
• (Gender Identity), 2007
• EXPLANATORY NOTE
• The Bill amends the Human Rights Code to specify
  that every person has a right to equal treatment
  without discrimination because of gender
  identity.

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•   Human Rights Code Amendment Act
• If passed would make Ontario the first province,
  and the second jurisdiction after the Northwest
  Territories to include a visible ground of Gender
  Identity in Human Rights Codes in Canada
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• I have found my voice. Amen to that.
• (Jill Saward. Rape My Story. 1991, p. 61. in
  Plummer, K. Telling Sexual Stories, 1995, p. 62)

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