2 Stories that are Driving me Nuts!
Two Stories, a local one from the Cambridge Times here and one from the Brampton Guardian here.
From the Cambridge Times:
An interim decision by the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal could spell victory for a Cambridge woman who was born male.
The tribunal has ruled that the province must pay for the sex reassignment surgery Michelle Hogan received in 2003...
Hogan said she is unsure how much compensation she will receive from the province if the tribunal's decision is made final. She said the surgery alone - performed at a hospital in Thailand - cost $11,000. In an interview with the Times following her surgery, Hogan said she was forced to accumulate a $40,000 debt to carry out the transition from man to woman. Her church also assisted her through fundraising.
In the tribunal ruling, Ross Hendricks, tribunal vice-chair, said Ontario failed to prove that the decision to de-list sex reassignment surgery was made for valid medical reasons. He said the province's conduct was "negligent, reckless and an abuse of power."...
So I went through the U.N.'s Universal Declaration of Human Rights and found nothing that states you are entitled to taxpayer funded sex change. Nothing to even remotely suggest it. Want a sex change... Pay for it!
In their first budget, Dalton McGuinty's Liberal Party of Ontario de listed eye exams, which they used to pay for bi-annually. I wear glasses, so does that mean I can go to the human rights tribunal and sue because the decision to de list wasn't made for "valid medical reasons?" Wasn't the decision to cut me off from my Optometrist "negligent, reckless and an abuse of power."? And if I could get a human rights tribunal to hear my case, who would pay for my lawyer? Who paid for Michelle's?
From the Brampton Guardian
Royal Canadian Legion branches in Brampton have been forced to change an out-of-date rule, which discriminates against some Sikhs and Orthodox Jews.
Local veterans call it a tradition that they fiercely enforce-- no "headgear" in the Legion clubroom. Head coverings must be removed out of respect for the fallen...
Members of the Legion, a private club, had voted for that rule, she said, and she was just enforcing it...
"That's wrong," said Royal Canadian Legion National Command spokesperson Bruce Poulin last week, adding Dhaliwal should not have been barred from the clubroom.
"I'm surprised. I thought this had been resolved many, many years ago," Poulin said...
He said members of the Indian Air Force have come to the local Legion two years in a row for Remembrance Day services-- some wearing turbans-- and none complained about the policy that saw them restricted to the community lounge in the Legion hall...
Question. If I went to India, and decided to head to the local Mosque to pay respects to Indian vets, do I have to wear a turban? Nowhere in India I can go that requires me to wear a turban? If I wound up in one such place, would Singh Dhaliwal stick up for me? Or would I have to go to a human rights tribunal? If the old Indian vets can sit in the common area, why can't Singh Dhaliwal without putting up a fuss?
I liked this bit:
A straw poll done by The Guardian of six branches in Toronto and Mississauga showed that they all were aware of the policy, and all allowed religious headdress in their clubrooms.
However, all said they do not have any members who wear a turban, and some indicated they accept the policy reluctantly.
"Some of our patrons don't like it, but they do go along," said the president of Clarkson Branch 582 in Mississauga, who did not want to be identified. "We're tolerant here."
Yea we're Tolerant here, what about our buddy Singh:
The experience has left Dhaliwal skeptical about the reception any Legion branch would give to anyone wearing a turban, despite their stated policies. And locally, he agrees policies can change, but attitudes won't unless a group larger than just himself decides to push the issue.
Aha, time to push the issue. Nice and tolerant like.
From the Cambridge Times:
An interim decision by the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal could spell victory for a Cambridge woman who was born male.
The tribunal has ruled that the province must pay for the sex reassignment surgery Michelle Hogan received in 2003...
Hogan said she is unsure how much compensation she will receive from the province if the tribunal's decision is made final. She said the surgery alone - performed at a hospital in Thailand - cost $11,000. In an interview with the Times following her surgery, Hogan said she was forced to accumulate a $40,000 debt to carry out the transition from man to woman. Her church also assisted her through fundraising.
In the tribunal ruling, Ross Hendricks, tribunal vice-chair, said Ontario failed to prove that the decision to de-list sex reassignment surgery was made for valid medical reasons. He said the province's conduct was "negligent, reckless and an abuse of power."...
So I went through the U.N.'s Universal Declaration of Human Rights and found nothing that states you are entitled to taxpayer funded sex change. Nothing to even remotely suggest it. Want a sex change... Pay for it!
In their first budget, Dalton McGuinty's Liberal Party of Ontario de listed eye exams, which they used to pay for bi-annually. I wear glasses, so does that mean I can go to the human rights tribunal and sue because the decision to de list wasn't made for "valid medical reasons?" Wasn't the decision to cut me off from my Optometrist "negligent, reckless and an abuse of power."? And if I could get a human rights tribunal to hear my case, who would pay for my lawyer? Who paid for Michelle's?
From the Brampton Guardian
Royal Canadian Legion branches in Brampton have been forced to change an out-of-date rule, which discriminates against some Sikhs and Orthodox Jews.
Local veterans call it a tradition that they fiercely enforce-- no "headgear" in the Legion clubroom. Head coverings must be removed out of respect for the fallen...
Members of the Legion, a private club, had voted for that rule, she said, and she was just enforcing it...
"That's wrong," said Royal Canadian Legion National Command spokesperson Bruce Poulin last week, adding Dhaliwal should not have been barred from the clubroom.
"I'm surprised. I thought this had been resolved many, many years ago," Poulin said...
He said members of the Indian Air Force have come to the local Legion two years in a row for Remembrance Day services-- some wearing turbans-- and none complained about the policy that saw them restricted to the community lounge in the Legion hall...
Question. If I went to India, and decided to head to the local Mosque to pay respects to Indian vets, do I have to wear a turban? Nowhere in India I can go that requires me to wear a turban? If I wound up in one such place, would Singh Dhaliwal stick up for me? Or would I have to go to a human rights tribunal? If the old Indian vets can sit in the common area, why can't Singh Dhaliwal without putting up a fuss?
I liked this bit:
A straw poll done by The Guardian of six branches in Toronto and Mississauga showed that they all were aware of the policy, and all allowed religious headdress in their clubrooms.
However, all said they do not have any members who wear a turban, and some indicated they accept the policy reluctantly.
"Some of our patrons don't like it, but they do go along," said the president of Clarkson Branch 582 in Mississauga, who did not want to be identified. "We're tolerant here."
Yea we're Tolerant here, what about our buddy Singh:
The experience has left Dhaliwal skeptical about the reception any Legion branch would give to anyone wearing a turban, despite their stated policies. And locally, he agrees policies can change, but attitudes won't unless a group larger than just himself decides to push the issue.
Aha, time to push the issue. Nice and tolerant like.
posted by Brian at 05:27
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