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   Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 09:06:29 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

   [Canada] Gender justice groups urge British Columbia government to repeal harmful name change ban
   https://westcoastleaf.org/name-act

   * repeal Bill 26: Name Amendment Act (No 2) 2024
   * changes Name Act
   * restricts access to legal name changes for many British Columbians
   * not necessary to protect the public
   * harms those most in need of legal name change:
   transgender people
   Indigenous people
   survivors of gender-based violence

   #BritishColumbia #NameChange #transphobia #conservatism #antiLGBT #Indigenous

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     Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 09:19:38 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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     /1
     B.C. groups call for repeal of Name Act changes
     https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-gender-justice-groups-call-for-repeal-of-name-act-changed-over-child-killer-1.7102491

     * Health Minister Adrian Dix introduced amended legislation May 2024
     * calls for repeal of Name Amendment Act incl.
     Gender-Affirming Healthcare
     Canadian Bar Association
     Trans Legal Clinic

     COMMENT: gov. has NO business dictating ANY of: name; gender identity; sex markers ... on ANY documents: birth certificates, passports, drivers license ...

     #BritishColumbia #AdrianDix #transphobia #conservatism #antiLGBT #Indigenous

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     Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 10:37:39 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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     /2 ... "Legislative creep"

     Due to the actions of one individual, the B.C. government both punishes entire populations of it's law-abiding citizens, and promulgates "legislative creep" (systematically expanding existing law to novel cases). 🤬

     #BritishColumbia