Someone shared this link on facebook.
Not sure how many here are in Canada, but either way this seems like good (and brave) news.
Women: fact not feeling www.cawsbar.ca/
(I like that - fact not feeling!)
" ... We believe that protecting women’s and girls’ sex-based rights is the most pressing social issue facing us today.
Although sex is a protected characteristic within our Charter of Rights and Freedoms, in 2017, the Canadian Human Rights Act was amended to include “gender identity or expression” as a category protected against discrimination (Bill C-16).
This amendment was adopted without substantial due diligence or meaningful consultation with women's advocacy groups.
The reality of such an amendment which does not precisely define what “gender identity or expression” means, instead relying on a vague concept of "internal sense" of oneself is that a male may simply declare himself to be a woman (gender self-identification), and demand he be granted all of the hard-won rights and protections women have fought for over the decades. This includes the right to access female-only spaces, services and resources.
Such an amendment also means that “woman” is reduced to a meaningless, equally undefinable concept. The harmful outcome of having "woman" or "girl" no longer accurately defined in public policy as "biological female" is that women's and girls' sex-based rights and protections will be lost forever.
As members of caWsbar, we are committed to demanding that Canadian women's sex-based Charter rights are upheld uniformly and consistently from coast to coast to coast. ... "