Persons Case and Trans Women Rights

: The Famous Five and the Persons Case and getting women included in the definition of personhood is a great really powerful milestone and that happened in 1929, but for me it really important to recognize that that was just the beginning and that was just for certain women, Dooley said in a phone interview from Ottawa where she received the honour It wasn’t until decades later that women of colour and indigenous women and newcomers and refugees were considered persons under the law and trans women rights are very precarious…I wanted to express that we should be cautious about holding this up as the mark of equality because we are not equal, according to Metro News. As the YWCA Halifax youth programs coordinator, Dooley has guided a provincial peer-led initiative to address cyber violence affecting young girls, led the Youth Advisory Council in developing a podcast on reproductive rights and developed a zine on sexual violence with junior high age girls. On Thursday, Dooley was one of five Canadian women selected for the Governor General Awards in Commemoration of the Persons Case. Dooley facilitated the development of a roundtable during which junior high girls met with elected officials to discuss issues affecting them. This is not really about me but more about recognizing all the great work happening around Halifax and Nova Scotia around which I’m just playing a very small part, she said about her award. She also sits on YWCA Canada national advisory committee on cyber violence and the province sexual violence strategy. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.