A group of students at Dr. Charles Best Secondary want Coquitlam to host a Pride event. Diane Strandberg Photo.
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Les « attributs biologiques » ne devraient pas être privilégiés dans la classification initiale des personnes ayant des considérations d'identité ou d'expression de genre. Agir ainsi est incompatible avec les obligations de Service Correctionnel Canada en matière de droits de la personne.
Personne ne devrait être soumis à la crainte de sanctions pour avoir choisi si, quand, ou à qui il divulgue un attribut de sa biologie ou de son anatomie.
Service Correctionnel Canada ne doit pas imposer un examen de sécurité supplémentaire et plus onéreux pour les personnes transgenres, bispirituelles, non-binaires, et de genre divers qu'il ne le fait pour les autres.
LEAF and the Morgane Oger Foundation sincerely hope that any new directive officially adopted by CSC responds to the concerns that the organizations expressed in our letter, and in particular:
“Biological attributes” should not be privileged in the initial classification of persons with gender identity or expression considerations. Doing so is inconsistent with Correctional Service Canada’s human rights obligations.
No one should be subject to the fear of sanctions for choosing if, when, or to whom they disclose any attribute of their biology or anatomy.
Correctional Service Canada must not impose an additional and more onerous safety review for Transgender, Two-Spirit, and non-binary persons than it does on others.
Two forums to impact Canada’s priorities at CSW65, Generation Equality Forum 2021 and UN SDG2030 by discussing the feminist movement in the COVID-19 era, the Canadian Feminist Forum invited panelists to ask governments, civil society, and the private sector for action to keep progress moving.
From addressing hatred online to non-charitable acts to better access to health services, the Morgane Oger Foundation offered up eight asks to improve the lives of Trans women, as well as those of nonbinary persons, two-spirit persons, and all other Transgender persons in Canada.
There are no human rights measures in Canada governing hatred online since they were removed in 2013 Here are our recommendations on what needs to be done.
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The Morgane Oger Foundation agrees with today’s BC Human Rights Tribunal decision: the protections of freedom of expression and freedom of religion set out in the Canadian Charter of Rights have limits. Publishing material which refuses to recognize a transgender woman as a woman and incites hatred or discrimination on that basis is prohibited under section 7 of the BC Human Rights Code.
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Morgane Oger Foundation Applauds City of Vancouver Putting Inclusion First in VRR March 14 Direct Social Services Grant Program decision:
City funds Rape Relief for 2019 “to avoid service disruption”, declares VRR ineligible for all future grants until it meets inclusion criteria, The Oger Foundation urged city to ensure that public funds never be accessible to organizations that do not adhere to their funding agency’s inclusion criteria.
Time’s up, this has to stop now.
”It was humiliating”…Stephanie Vande Kraats was told by taxpayer-funded Surrey Christian School she couldn't continue to teach there because she had violated a school policy requiring employees to only have sex within a heterosexual marriage.
Morgane Oger complained to the BC Human Rights Tribunal that during the 2017 BC election, Bill Whatcott produced and distributed flyers attacking her on the grounds of her gender identity and expression, calling her gender identity “an impossibility” and claiming that transgender people are at an elevated risk of various diseases and violent acts. The tribunal heard her complaint in December 2018.
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VICTORIA, BC: British Columbians who do not identify as male or female will have the choice to display an X as a third option in the gender field of their B.C.-issued driver’s licence, identity card, birth certificate and BC Services Card.
Read More”Adding self-declared, non-binary gender designation on BC ID where necessary is a welcome step towards recognizing that everybody has a gender, and that to know somebody’s gender you need to ask them.”
- Morgane Oger - Transgender Advocate and Morgane Oger Foundation founder
Inclusion is for everybody, except those who would oppress others.
Morgane Oger on how far LGBTQ2+ inclusion has gotten, where we need to get, and what we have to do. #KamloopsPride
Weaponizing Words – The Dilemmas of Free Speech, explores the complexities of free speech and what the limits are, or should be, in this era where hate speech is on the rise. How do we limit speech which harms others without handing over the tools to our legislators and law enforcers who could use limitations on free speech to crack down on legitimate dissent?
Samir Gandesha - Associate Professor in the Department of the Humanities and the Director of the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University. He specializes in modern European thought and culture, with a particular emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries.
Morgane Oger - Executive Director of the Morgane Oger Foundation, which works to narrow the gap between human rights laws as they are written and as they are experienced by Canadians. Morgane Oger was the BC NDP candidate in the then BC Liberal stronghold of Vancouver-False Creek during the 2017 General Election. Working across party lines, Oger has become recognized as an effective community organizer and educator, changing hearts and minds to help win significant change on issues focused around equality, LGBTQ2+ inclusion, and accessible education.
Josh Paterson - lawyer and the Executive Director of the BC Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA). Josh got his start acting as the Director of the Freedom of Expression, Equality and Dignity Project at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association in Toronto. After moving to Vancouver in the territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples, he joined a busy union-side labour and human rights practice, and spent much of his time working on one of BC’s largest racial discrimination cases in history.
This talk was recorded in Vancouver on June 27. Click here to for a link to the podcast on rabble.ca.
OTTAWA - May 29: National transgender rights activist Morgane Oger was the guest of honour at an all party reception to feature the Morgane Oger Foundation and our ongoing work to further protect gender identity and expression.
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In honour of IDAHOBIT, our Executive Director Morgane Oger sat down with the Consul General in Vancouver Nicole Davison to debunk some LGBTQ+ myths.
Instead of amplifying damaging myths, embrace people who are being their true selves helps everyone reach their full potential.
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Transgender rights activist Morgane Oger will be joined by The Inheritance of Shame author Peter Gajdics on Thursday, May 17 at the Vancouver Public Library to mark the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia.
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