VanTAG Now a Member of TAS

We've officially become a member of the Trans Alliance Society, here in Vancouver.

TAS has many common goals with VanTAG; creating access to trans surgery, challenging our Provincial Human Rights to sanction and protect gender identity, and further the medical needs and human rights of trans (etc) people in BC. Our mutual alliance is a natural extension to these goals, and we've already established a very positive and productive relationship.

At the moment TAS is driving a petition to "amend the British Columbia Human Rights Code so as to include and to specify “gender identity and gender expression” as a prohibited ground of discrimination for all purposes of that legislation in British Columbia."

Read the Xtra West Article on the TAS petition here:
http://www.xtra.ca/public/viewstory.aspx?STORY_ID=5094

Visit the TAS website and sign the Rights petition here:
http://www.transalliancesociety.org/

Look out for the TAS booth, and sign the Rights petition, at the Vancouver Pride Festival (immediately following the Pride Parade) at Sunset Beach in the West End of Downtown Vancouver, on Sunday August 3rd, 2008.

- The VanTAG Team