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Nicholas Keung Immigration and Trans Community

: After a series of mediations, the parties agreed Thursday to set out terms to, within 18 months, develop and revise policies, procedures and training for interaction with trans people, from searches to detention, in conjunction with the Ontario Human Rights Commission and the trans community, according to Toronto Star. I feel a mix of emotions. By Nicholas Keung Immigration reporter Fri., June 3, 2016 Toronto police and the province have settled a human rights complaint lodged by a transsexual man who was arrested, placed in a women jail and forced to put on women undergarments and a prison gown. I'm pleased with the remedy we got. I will never forget the humiliation. Everything was dealt with and there a willingness on their part to make changes and involve the community in doing so, said the complainant, Boyd Kodak. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.