Posted AT 9:28 AM EDT on 16/12/07
Transgendered lawyer dumped as NDP candidate
MONTREAL — A lawyer from Quebec City says she was dumped as a federal New Democratic Party candidate because she is transgendered.
Micheline Montreuil alleges she was told by an NDP official that her sexuality hindered party attempts to woo new Quebec candidates into the fold.
“They just said I do not fit in the NDP anymore,” the prominent family and labour lawyer said in a phone interview Saturday.
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