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Toby’s Act Reintroduced For Fourth Time

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Source Summary

I’ve been writing posts about NDP MPP Cheri Di Novo’s attempts since 2007 to cover trans people’s human rights in Ontario by adding gender identity and expression to the Ontario Human Rights Code via Toby’s Act. It was named for Toby Dancer, a music producer and trans parishioner of DiNovo’s who committed suicide a few years ago. She has attempted three times to get this passed but it either has languished in the Ontario Legislature or has died due to the Legislature being dissolved for provincial elections.. On February 21 DiNovo introduced Toby’s Act at Queen’s Park with members of the Trans Lobby Group in the house to observe what they and MPP DiNovo hope will be a successful effort to pass it this time. It has support not only from the NDP, but Liberal MPP Yasir Naqvi and Progressive Conservative MPP Christine Elliott are also co-sponsors of Toby’s Act.

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Why this article may matter

Community significance

“Toby’s Act Reintroduced For Fourth Time” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to transgender identity and history, while also engaging law and civil rights. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.

Historical significance

As a publication record from 2012 at Transadvocate.com, “Toby’s Act Reintroduced For Fourth Time” provides dated evidence of how transgender identity and history was being argued in relation to law and civil rights. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

Policy significance

The article’s strongest policy connection is elections and democratic governance. It links that institutional frame to transgender identity and history and law and civil rights, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.

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Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
100%
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Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
70%
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Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
40%
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Public policy and governanceTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
30%

Academic framing

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Qualitative and interview research
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Policy framing

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Elections and democratic governance
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How “Transgender identity and history” appears across the Collective corpus

This article appeared 1 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

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112 2012

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monica_roberts

74 publications · 8 inbound sources/citations

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Mari

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Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Law and civil rights.