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'Hate crimes' bill would allow men to use women’s restrooms, pro-family groups say

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O TTAWA, November 8, 2012, – Numerous pro-family organizations and one conservative MP are calling upon citizens to oppose a “hate crimes” bill they warn will allow men to use women’s restrooms and showers. The private members bill,  Bill C-279 , would include “gender identity” and “gender expression” in the hate crimes sections of the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code. The controversial bill has been dubbed the “bathroom bill” by critics, who say it would give men a legal alibi to use women’s bathrooms, shower rooms, and changing rooms. They worry this will lead to an increase in sexual assaults. The bill is expected to face a  third reading  and final vote any day. REAL Women of Canada is asking Canadians to tell their MPs to oppose the Bill, “with or without amendments”. “The major effect of this bill is that transgendered, transsexual, and sexually confused individuals will be given full protection re-employment, services, housing, e...

NDP’s LGBTT Critic seeks support for controversial bathroom ‘transgender’ bill

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OTTAWA, Ontario, April 17, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A private members bill was recently debated in parliament that aims at giving what its sponsor calls “specific protections” to “transsexual and transgendered Canadians.” Bill C-279  (formerly Bill C-389) sponsored by NDP MP Randall Garrison ( Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca , BC) is a proposition to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code to include “gender identity” and “ gender expression ” as prohibited grounds of discrimination. NDP MP Randall Garrison “I firmly believe that the bill would help complete what we might call Canada ’s human rights project,” said Garrison, NDP’s LGBTT Critic (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Transexual ) during  parliamentary debate  of the bill on April 5th. The controversial private members bill, dubbed by critics as the “bathroom bill” because it would likely allow men who say they are women to use women’s washrooms, passed the House of Commons in February 2011, b...