Mr. Chair, not all of the provinces provide equal access to medical services for the transition and for those who might require surgery. So there is a problem with equal access to those services in Canada.
The issue I have heard most often from transgendered people is on the question of identity documents and the difficult procedures that are often required for getting identity documents. Putting gender identity into the human rights code would give a basis for clarifying the rights to those identity documents and the right of access to them without some of the hurdles that are placed before transgendered people.