Ronan Oger
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, September 26, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — A Vancouver transgender “woman” wants the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal to alter an interim ruling to delete the statement he “was born as a male.”
“This is incorrect and is not set out in any of the Complainant’s materials,” wrote Susanna Quail, lawyer for Morgane, formerly known as Ronan Oger.
“Ms. Oger requests that this sentence be removed, or if it is relevant to specify Ms. Oger’s gender identity the sentence could be corrected to state ‘Ms. Oger is a transgender woman.’”
Oger was the NDP candidate for the inner-city Vancouver-False Creek riding in the province’s May election.
Reputedly the first transgendered person to run in the provincial election (the Green Party then ran two and the Liberals one), Oger lost the cliffhanger election by 560 votes.
He has now filed a complaint with the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal (BCHRT) against Christian activist Bill Whatcott.
Oger alleges Whatcott distributed two flyers during the campaign that were discriminatory and exposed him to “hatred and contempt” under Section 7 of B.C.’s Human Rights Code.
A longtime LGBT activist and chair of the Trans Alliance Society, Oger helped
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