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Nova Scotia reduces multiple-letter requirement for gender-affirming care
Nova Scotia Health Minister Michelle Thompson fields a question at a briefing in Halifax on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
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Canada’s first count of trans and non-binary people
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music
Sophie, Scottish electronic musician, dies in accident at age 34
INDIO, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 19: SOPHIE performs at Mojave Tent during the 2019 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival on April 19, 2019 in Indio, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Coachella)
opinion
A tale for the ages: Fraud, gender and wily stunts
John Doyle
opinion
The bravery and vulnerability of Canadian actor Elliot Page’s coming out
Johanna Schneller
soccer
Canadian soccer player Quinn hopes to help young trans folk after coming out
FRISCO, TX - OCTOBER 14: Rebecca Quinn #5 of Canada controls the ball against the Panama during the first half of the CONCACAF Women's Championship semi-finals on October 14, 2018 in Frisco, Texas. (Photo by Cooper Neill/Getty Images)
obituary
Edmonton psychiatrist Dr. Lorne Warneke was a pioneer in treating transgender people
University of Alberta Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient Lorne Warneke at his Edmonton home on July 8, 2017. Credit: John Ulan
politics
New Brunswick Tories, Liberals drop candidates after posts on LGBT community surface
New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs heads from a visit with Lt.-Gov Brenda Murphy at Government House in Fredericton on Monday, Aug. 17, 2020. The leader of New Brunswick's Progressive Conservatives says he's looking at whether one of his candidates has a place in the party after learning he had reposted a Facebook message containing transphobic language. Blaine Higgs was commenting today during an event in Saint John, N.B., today on the repost of a transphobic meme by Roland Michaud, the party's candidate in Victoria-La Vallee, that made mocked physical violence against trangendered women. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
u.s. politics
U.S. court blocks ban on trans people changing sex on birth certificates
A woman holds rainbow flags for the grand entry at the International Gay Rodeo Association's Rodeo In the Rock in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States April 26, 2015. Contestants at the International Gay Rodeo in Arkansas, a Bible Belt state with a same-sex marriage ban on its books, competed in events from barrel racing to bull riding on the soft soil of a fairground that looked like just any small-scale rodeo held throughout the United States. The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule in June whether to strike down bans on gay marriage nationwide. Arkansas has been one of the front-line states in the battle between cultural conservatives and those seeking expanded rights for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY PICTURE 1 OF 27 FOR WIDER IMAGE STORY "GAY RODEO IN LITTLE ROCK" SEARCH "RODEO LUCY" FOR ALL IMAGES TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
politics
Ottawa adding new census questions on gender, Indigenous people, linguistic and ethnic minorities
Signage mark the Statistics Canada offiices in Ottawa on July 21, 2010. Statistics Canada says it is working with the United States Census Bureau and plans to release the December merchandise data on March 6.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick