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In this article the author argues that the Canadian judiciary, while affirming and protecting adults' right not to be discriminated against on the grounds of sexual orientation, has not done so to the same extent in the case of adolescents and children. And the few cases in which youth's rights related to sexual orientation have been implicated have usually been characterized as conflicts between the rights of adults and institutions, often based on religious belief. Judicial recognition of the right to freedom from discrimination based on sexual orientation in the school context, moreover, has been tied to what the author terms an inappropriate belief/conduct dichotomy that establishes too high a threshold, endangering the rights and even mental wellbeing and physical safety of students. The author expresses the need for proactive curricular measures that would affirm and reinforce for all the worth and dignity of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth.

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08382875

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The article focuses on the issue of transsexualism and protection of people who change gender under antidiscrimination laws. Participation in sports presents several thorny issues, including which locker room one changes in. But the main question is: Do male-to-female transitioners have an unfair physical advantage in women's sports? The argument is now raging in Britain, where the Blair government's sports minister queried the country's 600 governing sports bodies to determine whether they are in compliance with European Union rules allowing ex-men to participate in women's sports. Another legal question is whether gender-crossing surgery qualifies for medical insurance. Earlier this year a Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld P&C Food Markets when its medical plan refused to cover the costs of a female-to-male transition. A good recently published guide to all these questions is The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism, by J. Michael Bailey, 46, a professor of psychology at Northwestern University who teaches an undergraduate course in human sexuality. The book is mostly about effeminate boys and men and how they got that way, but concluding chapters zero in on the world of transsexuals--not all of whom were effeminate. The book has ignited a firestorm of protest from some transsexuals.

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Vol. 172 Issue 8, p68-69 2p; 1c