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Health Care an Issue for Trans Conference

3/31/2014

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At Saskatchewan Trans Awareness Week conference focused on issues of health care for trans people."Saskatoon Health Region mental health and addiction services worker Jai Richards said issues for transgender people can start as soon as they enter the waiting room.

“Generally on most forms there’s two choices for gender, male or female; how do you answer that question? Depends potentially where you are in transition but how do you want to be identified so it’s limited right from the very beginning,” he said.

“And then you never know what health care professional you’re going to encounter and whether there’s some judgment.”
 
Richards said there’s a lack of consistency among Saskatoon healthcare providers and while he’s heard mixed reviews, the biggest issue, regardless of level of acceptance, is lack of knowledge."  Read the full story here from CJME.


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Renn Forsberg, trans child hero

3/26/2014

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Renn Forsberg is 6 years old.  She was assigned 'male' on her birth certificate.
But male she is not.
Her mom has filed a complaint with the Saskatchewan Human Rights Tribunal so that Renn won't be burdened with the 'wrong' gender.
Read her story:

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Raising a Rainbow Child

3/19/2014

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His school sent a note home to Grayson Bruce's mother.  The message: Grayson shouldn't bring his Little Pony backpack to school any more. The reason? The backpack was a trigger for bullying.

This remarkable letter to the school board from the mom of another gender variant child is what every queer child deserves, what every queer adult wishes they had.  

I also see a reference to the book 'Raising a Rainbow Child' by Lori Duron, the blogger. I haven't seen it yet but it looks very interesting.

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"Will" You or "Will" you not?  Marriage No Longer Matters

3/19/2014

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On March 31, 2014, a new law about making a will, and about how to probate estates, comes into force.
Currently-made wills continue to be valid, and if you have already started probating an estate it will continue under the old law.
BUT a feature of the old law has changed.  A marriage NO LONGER voids a will automatically, as was the case in the past.   

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Queer Seniors' Housing Survey

3/18/2014

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Please complete this very important survey of queer seniors' housing needs.

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Trans people avoid hospitals because of transphobia

3/14/2014

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An Ontario study has found that 20% of trans people avoid hospitals even if they are very sick, because of the transphobia they have experienced or are afraid they will experience.
Sometimes trans people were turned away from emergency rooms, being asked to please go somewhere else.


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Trans people can change birth certificates without surgery; children can change gender markers, new Bill says

3/10/2014

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The B.C. government today passed first reading on a bill which will permit trans people to change the gender marker on their birth certificates without surgery; and will enable children to change their gender markers.
This is a disappointing half measure.  It is of course exciting that trans people can now have their gender changed by a simple declaration of their affirmed gender confirmed by a doctor or a psychologist.


But the government missed the opportunity to correct the pain and vicious discrimination that gender variant and intersex people experience.  Though the government has made it easier to change gender, it has maintained the oppressive gender binary:  everyone has to have either an M or an F.


It is hard to understand why the government did not simply cure the discrimination experienced by all trans people by taking gender markers off birth certificates.  They could have done so while still collecting information about which babies were born with apparently-male genitalia and which were born with apparently-female genitalia, on the registration of birth forms.
Harriette Cunningham, an 11 year old transgirl in Comox, currently has a human rights complaint pending with respect to birth certificates, to have gender completely removed.  That complaint is set for mediation in May. If mediation fails, the matter will be referred to a hearing at the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal.
Stay tuned!
The complete text of the proposed amendment can be found here.

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Trans human rights re: sex reassignment surgery

3/6/2014

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Jackson Flagg's human rights complaint is against the province with respect to trans health services.  


"The gist of Mr. Flagg's complaint is that the Ministry, who funds chest surgery for a number of different medical conditions, treats transgender patients differently and adversely. Mr. Flagg states that the Ministry acknowledges that GRS, including top surgery, is a medically-necessary health service. Mr. Flagg provides examples of medically-necessary chest treatment for cisgender people ("cisgender" means someone whose gender identity matches their sex assigned at birth). His examples are a cisgender woman who requires a breast reduction, a cisgender woman who has a significant amount of asymmetry between her breasts, or a cisgender man who has gynecomastia (benign enlargement of breast tissue in males)."  


The tribunal has acceptd the complaint though it was filed outside of the 6 month time limit. 
To read the case of Jackson v B.C.

 Stay tuned! 

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