Will Bill C-389 leave sex behind?

I have a new piece up on the national page of Xtra.ca which looks at a potential unintended consequence of Bill C-389, and a discussion on women's rights versus trans rights. The timing of the issue of including sex in Section 318(4) of the Charter is particularly relevant considering that we're coming up on the anniversary of the December 6th Montreal Massacre (though the line mentioning that was cut from the final version), but that actually hadn't been in mind when I started this story.

The other piece that was chopped from the end was where Senator Nancy Ruth expressed some optimism with the outcome of the bill, which I'll include here:

“Those cabinet minister that I’ve spoken with – the women cabinet minsters at least – are saying ‘what? How can this be? Extraordinary! We have to do something about this!’” she says.

“It may help, if his bill passes, make the government make the decision to put sex in as a category.”