Kavanagh v Canada (Attorney General)
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kavanagh-v-canada-attorney-general-174-17561359
title:
Kavanagh v Canada (Attorney General)
text:
Synthia Kavanagh is a transgender inmate serving time for second degree murder in Canada, who filed a human rights complaint on the basis of three claimed discriminatory actions. It was argued that Kavanagh's incarceration in a male prison, her deprival of the hormone therapies that she had previously been taking, and the lack of surgical sex-reassignment options that were available to her all constituted violations of section 5 of the Canadian Human Rights Act. Ultimately the Canadian Human Rig
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1993–2001 legal case in Canada
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kavanagh_v_Canada_(Attorney_General)
date created:
2016-06-17T20:28:46Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T22:39:33Z
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