Canadian Medical Association shows its rainbow colors: new president is lesbian
YELLOWKNIFE, NWT , August 30, 2012, ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - Canada ’s largest physicians’ association, the Canadian Medical Association ( CMA ) has elected an openly lesbian doctor as the new president of the 76,000-member organization. Dr Anna Reid, who practices as an emergency room doctor at the Stanton Territorial Hospital in Yellowknife, was officially introduced as the new president of the CMA at the organization’s national convention held in the capital of the Northwest Territories earlier this month. She will serve as president for one year. Dr. Anna Reid. The new president’s biography posted on the CMA website notes that she lives “with her partner, Linda, and their canine life–coach, Ella.” In an interview with Toronto’s Globe and Mail newspaper, Reid, who is the CMA’s first president from the Northwest Territories, the first open homosexual, and the sixth woman to head the doctor’s group, said, “Being a woman has never stood in the way of my doing anythi