Despite our progress in achieving equality, many older members of the LGBTQ2S+ community fear for their safety. What can we do to change this?

During the last election campaign, in 2015, then-Liberal leader Justin Trudeau promised to put an end to the policy prohibiting homosexuals from donating blood constituents and products.

The CBA SOGIC Alberta South Section has had an exciting and relatively busy past few months.

We need to hear the marginalized voices of the MeToo movement - National Magazine February 2018

Transgender people are at a significantly higher risk of harassment, assault, sexual assault, suicide and even murder in correctional or detention facilities.

Ontario Superior Court Justice Cynthia Petersen took an unusual path to the bench, moving from academia to legal practice to the court. Along the way she made a name for herself doing public interest litigation for LGBT communities. She sat down recently for an interview with OBA student member Natasha R. Yard, talking about what took her to the bench, and what she found once she got there. She also has some advice for litigators.

I met Judge Amy Sakalauskas in 2015, through our mutual work with the CBA and on the NSBS v TWU appeal proceedings. Since then, Judge Sakalauskas has acted as a mentor and role model for me, and it was a joy to witness her appointment to the Nova Scotia Provincial Court earlier this year. She graciously agreed to sit down with me to discuss her evolution as an LGBT lawyer, jurist, and CBA member.

In 2014, the Council of the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society voted to conditionally accredit degrees from Trinity Western University's proposed law school. The condition imposed by Council related to a provision in a "community covenant" – a contract which must be signed by all students seeking admission to TWU – which prohibits "sexual intimacy that violates the sacredness of marriage between a man and a woman.

As of 2016, gender identity and expression is a legally protected ground in human rights legislation passed in Alberta, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, and Prince Edward Island, while gender identity is statutorily protected in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and the Northwest Territories.

This study examines the diagnostic categories of gender dysphoria in the DSM-5 and transsexualism in the ICD-10, and the continuing stigmatization associated with labeling gender identities and expressions as pathological.