http://montreal.mediacoop.ca/old/taxonomy/term/23/0 en http://www.mediacoop.ca/story/governing-gender/18470 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Transgender activists fight for crucial changes to Quebec’s Civil Code </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://montreal.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/id007_1.jpg" alt="" title="Across Canada, trans people face difficulties accessing essential services like health care, especially when government ID does not match their chosen gender and name. Illustration by Mike Funk" width="450" height="309" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>MONTREAL&mdash;Deena* emigrated from Jordan to Quebec in March 2010, hopeful about settling in a city where she could live safely as a transgender woman. Instead, she found herself caught in a multi-year long administrative nightmare.</p> <p><a href="http://www.mediacoop.ca/story/governing-gender/18470" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://www.mediacoop.ca/story/governing-gender/18470#comments Ashley Fortier Gender Governance Health Migration Poverty #transgender Citizenship and Immigration Canada Montreal trans Tue, 20 Aug 2013 16:10:15 +0000 taramichelle 18470 at http://montreal.mediacoop.ca