Christin Milloy

Very disturbing information has emerged about an incident which recently occurred at the Peace Bridge, one of the road crossings along the Canada / U.S. border, at the hands of Canada’s federal Border Services Agency (CBSA). Toby, 25, is an American citizen and resident of New York state. Identifying as genderqueer, Toby does not use gendered [...]

Toronto’s Trans* March has a short and controversial history. As plans take shape for 2013′s “Pride” week, the controversy has re-ignited. Once again, the hot-button issue: what is the appropriate route for a march that champions the causes of equality, and visibility for Trans* people in Canada and worldwide? As Canadian Trans* people (and a [...]

Kaylie Sorrenti, a young heroine in London, Ontario, is currently vying for a seat on London’s Youth Advisory Council (LYAC). She’s running on a platform which includes, among other things, better acceptance of diversity in London. “I come from a (youth advocacy) background, and run a weekly support group for (trans*-identified adolescents) who have issues [...]

Once upon a time, a legal change of sex was available in Ontario only to those Trans* persons who could prove with documentation that they had completed “transsexual surgery.” Early in 2012, that requirement was found to be discriminatory in a human rights ruling. Consequently, the Ontario Registrar General was given six months to provide [...]

Yesterday, November 20th, was the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR). This is the day that the LGBT community and allies gather together to remember all of the trans people who have been lost in the world this year due to acts of violent transphobia, or due to suicide (which is rampant problem in the [...]

I have just had a whirlwind twenty-four hours, beginning with a minor tragedy, followed soon with a hard-won reversal, and culminating in the sweetest of victories. Saturday, October 20th, Midnight My closest associate is [Fake name: Megatron]. They’re my co-conspirator in life, my emotional support all these years, and as close to me as any [...]

I recently became aware, through a reader, of a rather disturbing story developing in the Province of Ontario. [EDIT - It is unclear whether the regulations in question are in fact Provincial, as they were described, or Federal, originating with Health Canada. I am currently performing additional research.] The details are 100% true, however the [...]

Some of Ontario’s Trans* community are celebrating this week, as Service Ontario has released a revised set of legal sex change rules which no longer require surgery. This came as the result of a Human Rights Tribunal ruling which occurred in April. However, as the new forms reveal, the Government struck back against the ruling [...]

Conservative MP Rob Anders (Calgary West) has reached out to his constituents and local church pastor with a petition against C-279, the federal bill that would add human rights protections based on “Gender Identity,” and which passed second reading in June. His petition, unsurprisingly, appeals to the transphobic “bathroom argument.” In Anders’s view, C-279 will [...]