The Issue Of The Canadian Immigration Act - 1399 Words

Background: Dating from early British era, Transgender, which is an umbrella term for lesbians, gays and bisexuals have been officially charged for crime called â€Å" gross indecency†. This penalty of this crime at first was death, which later on moderated and became imprisonment for a period of 10 years. Through 1947-1961, many amendments were made to the criminal code, which further criminalized the idea of trans genders. During the 1960s, the British Parliament deiced to decriminalize some of the offences of Tran genders. In the May of 1969, following the prime ministers elections, after Pierre Elliot Trudeau was elected as P.M., his government passed Bill C-150. This bill decriminalized gay sex for the first time†¦show more content†¦Bill C-23 introduced by the government included the traditional definition of marriage, which was â€Å"the union of one man and one women to the exclusion of all others†. This legislation kept trans genders from full marria ge rights. In 2005, the government released bill C-38, known as the Civil Marriage Act, which gave rights to same-sex couple to marry. What is Bill C-279? Bill C-279 also known, as the Gender Identify Bill is an act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal code to include both gender identity and gender expression. By allowing this bill, we would include gender identity and gender expression in to the lost of prohibited grounds of discrimination in the Canadian Human Rights and Criminal Code. The main objective of this bill is to protect transgendered individuals from any sort of discrimination and also ensure that transgendered individuals have access to justice and equality which is provide to every person in Canada by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. What will the Bill C-279 do? Gender identify Bill will provide transgendered individuals with justice and equality based on Charter of Rights and Freedoms and also accomplish three things: 1. Amend the Canadian Human Rights Act to include gender identity and gender expression in the prohibited grounds of discrimination making it illegal to discriminate transgendered individuals on the bases of