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Transgender rights in Canada, including procedures for changing legal gender and protections from discrimination, vary among provinces and territories, due to Canada's nature as a federal state. [1] According to the 2021 Canadian census , 59,460 Canadians identify as transgender. [ 2 ]
Protests on February 15 over 200 people in Toronto blocked Macmillan Yard, the second largest rail classification yard in Canada. [86] On February 16 and 17 temporarily blocked the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls, Ontario and Thousand Islands Bridge in Ivy Lea, Ontario, two major border crossings between the United States and Canada. [ 87 ]
Canadian lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer rights are some of the most extensive in the world. [5] [6] [7] Same-sex sexual activity, in private between consenting adults, was decriminalized in Canada on June 27, 1969, when the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1968–69 (also known as Bill C-150) was brought into force upon royal assent. [1]
Other protests blocking rail lines halted service on Via Rail's Prince Rupert and Prince George lines, running on CN tracks. [82] [85] Protests on the CN line west of Winnipeg additionally blocked the only trans-Canada passenger rail route. [50] Protests disrupted GO train lines in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and Exo's Candiac line in Montreal.
In 1971, Canada's first gay rights march, the We Demand Rally, took place in Ottawa. The Body Politic, Canada's first gay liberation newspaper, was published in Toronto and continued for about 15 years. A short run documentary series, Coming Out, became Canada's first LGBT television series when it aired on Maclean-Hunter cable in Toronto in 1972.
The complaint sparked protests outside the restaurant, with a small group of people carrying colorful, homemade signs reading “sex-based discrimination is wrong” and “trans women are women ...
Canada's players also donned purple tape and wore plain purple shirts as they took the field "as a symbol of protest," they said. On the shirts, the players had handwritten : "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH."
The murder of Berman was cited as a prominent example of violence against trans people in Canada. [6] [7] Berman was a hairdresser, [8] prominent for trans-activism within the Toronto LGBTQ+ community, [9] who had volunteered with the Toronto-based LGBTQ+ charity The 519 for three decades.