Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the ban on transgender discrimination in Canada during his speech at Montreal event, on May 17.
The legislation announced by Canada PM Justin Trudeau aims to protect transgender people from hate speech and discrimination, as debate rages in some states in the United States over laws restricting LGBT rights.
"Even today, despite all the obstacles we have overcome, the battles we have won, and the victories we have celebrated, we are still witness, and in some cases, victims of injustices," Trudeau said during his speech at a Montreal event hosted by gay rights group Fondation Emergence in a report by the official website of Canadian Prime Minister.
Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould will be the one to unveil the bill, and the new legislation will be added to the Canadian Human Rights Act.
The new legislation are the grounds of "gender identity" and "gender expression," thus making the discrimination or harassment related to a person's gender identity or gender expression a crime or against the law of Canada, Edmonton Journal reports.
According to Chief Commissioner, Marie-Claude Landry, "transgender rights are human rights," meaning, transgender people rights to be respected are the same as everyone else in Canada.
Meanwhile in Denmark, the country is now the first one to declassify transgender as mental illness. Even in this year, World Health Organization classed transgender as a mental illness worldwide, which means trans have mental and or behavioural issues, according to The Brief UK.
Social Democrat health spokesman Flemming Møller Mortensen, found the WHO's classification as "incredibly discriminatory" towards transgenders.
The Local LGBT spokesperson Linda Thor Pedersen said transgender is a "natural variation" just like being left-handed. She added that trans like her are not sick, meaning, being trans does not belong to any mental disorder.
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