 | Are We ''Persons'' Yet?: Law and Sexuality in Canada Subjects: Gays -- Legal status laws etc. -- Canada; Bisexuals -- Legal status laws etc. -- Canada; Transsexuals -- Legal status laws etc. -- Canada; Transvestites -- Legal status laws etc. -- Canada; Canada. Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms; In 1929 women were declared 'persons' under the British North America Act. Seventy years later a similar move is afoot to establish constitutional personhood for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, and transgendered people. Lahey Kathleen A. : Kathleen A. Lahey is Professor and Queen's National Scholar, Faculty of Law, and is cross-appointed to the Institute of Women's Studies, at Queen's University. |
