Go NWT!

I found this in my in box today:

Bill 1 [in the Northwest Territories] also represents a historic step towards equality for transgendered people. Both the Canadian Human Rights Commission and the B.C. Human Rights Commission have recommended that discrimination on the ground of gender identity be prohibited, but the Northwest Territories is the first jurisdiction in Canada to do so. The inclusion of this ground sends a message loud and clear: discrimination against transgendered people is just plain wrong, and must end. Hopefully, this initiative by the Northwest Territories will encourage other jurisdictions to follow suit, to ensure that transgendered people across Canada enjoy basic human rights protection.

Interestingly, here in my province, the Ontario Human Rights Commission feels that gender identity is automatically protected under the existing protections based on sex.