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Article: Beyond human rights.(Ontario Human Rights Commission calls for public education on subject of transsexuals)(Brief Article)
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- Catholic Insight
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- July 1, 2000
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Well, I suppose it simply had to happen. The Ontario Human Rights Commission has issued a report calling for greater public education on the subject of transsexuals so that we can all understand this poor, persecuted community. In other words, we have to know more about people who want sex-change operations.
"Education about gender identity is crucial to both transgendered and non-transgendered people," says the report. Funny, I seem to have got along fine so far without too much information on this issue. The paper goes on to state that education is imperative because there are so many myths about the subject.
For education, read clumsy and unbridled ...