Thanks very much, Mr. Chair.
Jeremy, thank you very much for joining us. We really appreciate your work.
Because you raised it in your last point, I want to state that the international lesbian and gay association's Canadian representatives and our LGBTQ2 secretariat have been working with Dr. Morgan Holmes, who is one of the lead experts in the country on intersex matters. As a federal government, we are working on a response to issues that face the intersex community, so we really appreciate your bringing it up here today.
From your expertise with front-line workers and through anecdotal evidence, what are some of the issues that face intimate partners and the violence that happens with them, other than challenges related to police? Once you go through the difficulty of coming out and you actually find somebody but then realize that they're beating you or there's violence, isn't it true that there's deep shame and you don't know who to talk to, even in your own friend circle, let alone professionals?