(Quebec) Family Minister Suzanne Roy on Tuesday introduced the “wise men” who will address the issue of gender identity until the publication of a report on the issue in the winter of 2025.
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The committee will be chaired by Diane Lavallée, trained nurse and former president of the Council on the Status of Women, accompanied by Jean-Bernard Trudeau, family physician and former deputy director general of the College of Physicians of Quebec, and Patrick Taillon, professor of constitutional law and human rights and freedoms at the University of Laval.
During a press conference on Tuesday in Quebec, Ms. Roy reiterated from the outset that “there is no question of rolling back the existing rights of trans and non-binary people.” The panel of “wise men” will be “experts, researchers, decision-makers “professional groups”. [et] “Field Representatives” in relation to gender identity.
More specifically, his mission will be to:
- “Paint a portrait of the reality of Quebec;
- Identify Quebec public policies, practices and guidelines across multiple sectors.
- Analyze their potential impact on Quebec society as a whole.
- Identify, compare and analyze the policies, guidelines and practices implemented in states comparable to Quebec;
- Identify the main topics that need to be explored in more depth.
- Work closely with the Quebec LGBT Council. »
Minister Roy clarified that her committee is not a representative committee, which explains why there is no trans or non-binary person on it. She said her “wise men” combined complementary experiences to enrich the debate amid the tense protests that rocked the country in early fall.
In September, the issue of gender identity caused a stir when a group of conservative Muslim activists, members of the religious right and supporters of the “Freedom Convoy,” the “One Million March for Children,” demonstrated in several major cities across the country Theme. Counter-demonstrations were also organized.
Saskatchewan and New Brunswick have also introduced policies to prevent trans and non-binary young people from changing their pronouns or names in school without informing their parents. Both provinces say they could use the derogation clause to protect their policies from legal challenges.
Gender identity, sociologist and sexologist Martin Blais, holder of the Research Chair in Sexual Diversity and Gender Plurality at UQAM, explained to La Presse earlier this fall that it is “a subjective feeling, specific to each person and related to the feeling of a man to be a woman, to be neither a man nor a woman, to be sometimes a man, sometimes a woman. It is a relatively stable, deep inner feeling of having one gender, multiple genders, or no gender. »