Let’s take a moment to remember the good.
Trans girls were welcomed with open arms into Girl Guides of Canada.
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Although they were already permitted to join on a case-by-case basis, in 2015 Girl Guides of Canada released guidelines to ensure trans girls and volunteers could feel at home in the organization.
Girl Guides of Canada
You no longer need to get surgery to change your legal sex in Quebec.
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As advocate Gabrielle Bouchard put it, the move is "a huge recognition that gender is very, very diverse."
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Alberta added human rights protections for trans people.
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“No Albertan should be denied basic services for being true to themselves,” Justice Minister Kathleen Ganley said at the announcement, according to CBC.
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