The articles below provide more information about some of the areas of law affecting LBGT communities. All of them are written for a general interest audience. Feel free to duplicate, quote, or otherwise use the articles, provided that you credit the source. We welcome feedback, also. Give us your views! Tell us where our analysis falls short, or what articles need to be written. Give us links to other articles on these subjects.

Note that none of the articles is "legal advice", Rather the articles contain general information and analysis. They are current to the date of their publication.

There are shorter pamphlets on issues affecting lesbians, gay men, bisexual, transgender, and intesexed people on the Publications page.

Lesbians, Gay and Bisexual Issues:

• Working OUT:
  Lesbians, Gay Men and Bisexual People in the Workplace by barbara findlay, 1999, published by Continuing Legal Education

Transgender Issues:

• Finding Our Place: Transgender Law Reform Project (Vancouver, 1996)
  Transgender Law Report. Written by barbara findlay and others, 1996, published by the High Risk Project with funding from The Law Foundation of British Columbia
• An Introduction to Transgender Women
  Written by barbara findlay, 1999, published by LEAF
• Transgender People and Employment
  An Equality Analysis. Written by barbara findlay 1999 for the Trans Justice and Equality Summit, Vancouver
• Transsexuals in Canadian Prisons:
  An Equality Analysis. Written by barbara findlay 2000.
• Re/Defining Gender and Sex:
  Educating for Trans, Transsexual and Intersex Access and Inclusion to Sexual Assault Centres and Transition Houses. Written by Caroline White, 2002.
  (note: this file is quite large, approx. 1.12megabytes - download time up to 8-10 minutes on a 56k modem)
• Transgender and Women's Substantive Equality.
  Written by Margaret Denike and Sal Renshaw as a discussion paper for the National Association of Women and The Law, 2002. Published by NAWL.
• Transgender Equality
  A HANDBOOK FOR ACTIVISTS AND POLICYMAKERS Written by Shannon Minter and Jamison Green. Published by National Center for Lesbian Rights, San Francisco. possibly the best handbook for organizers,if you can discount the American context.
• Real Women: Kimberly Nixon v Vancouver Rape Relief.
  Written by barbara findlay. © UBC Law Review Vol 36 No 1 Winter 2003 "Sexuality and the Law" issue

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