Four years on, past critics are silent on whether fears around transgender human rights bill were founded

Then, furor erupted around the bill, with media attention centring on University of Toronto psychology professor Jordan Peterson’s concerns of free speech and being compelled to employ certain words and gender-neutral terms.

NDP MP Randall Garrison originally proposed adding protection for gender expression in a 2013 private member's bill, that was later picked up as a piece of government legislation in 2016 as Bill C-16.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY ALICE CHEN

June 23, 2021

Legislation adding protection for transgender and gender-diverse people to the Human Rights Act was met with controversy and fear when it was in the House, but four years on, these concerns have remained unfounded, say MPs and experts. Bill C-16 was introduced by the Liberal government back in the ...

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