Thank you.
While I'm on this—it's a similar thing—I'd like to thank you for a turn of phrase that I scrambled to scribble down, even as my colleague Ms. Boivin did. You said that trans people are “just variations on the theme—the human theme”. I thought that was very important for us to think about, because I think of this bill as being essentially about recognition of humanity through recognition of difference, distinct identity, as part of how we understand equality. Your presentation here today I hope has reached a lot of us, to make us understand that even more.
We received a letter from an organization called Gender Mosaic, based in Ottawa. They have been around for about 25 years as a transgender social and support group—