Trans/Air Travel: Conservatives refuse to change discriminatory rule
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The House of Commons transportation committee rejected the NDP’s request Thursday to modify the law that went into effect on July 29 forbidding airlines from transporting passengers who do not appear to be the sex indicated on their identity papers, a law that is sure to cause increased discrimination of transgendered and transsexual citizens when they travel by plane.
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Defenders of trans rights consider this law a step backwards. The proposal presented by NDP MP Dany Morin (associate critic for LGBT issues) was rejected by the members of the committee, of whom the majority were Conservative MPs.
Two transgendered people accompanied the New Democrat delegation in front of the committee, but it did not seem to have much of an impact on the Conservative MPs, who essentially repeated the position of the Minister of Transportation, Denis Lebel.
“Stupid and devoid of any sense of reality”
Minister Lebel, for his part, cited security concerns when justifying his refusal to modify the law, and suggested that transgendered and transsexual people get themselves a medical certificate.
Trans and gay rights groups have called this decision “stupid and devoid of any sense of reality”. Despite this new refusal, Dany Morin plans to continue the fight in the House of Commons by addressing Minister Lebel in the House during question period.
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