Monday, March 3, 2014

"What can Canada's legal system do to respect transgender people?"

Trudeau scholar, lawyer and SJD student Kyle Kirkup answers this question in a two-minute video for the Globe and Mail. Kirkup is researching policing in the LGBTQ communities, and comments on the recent case of the transgender comedian who was detained at Pearson International Airport, sent to a jail for men and kept in solitary confinement, despite her self-identification as female.

Watch Kyle Kirkup in the Globe's video here.