Scotiabank sets example for equality in the workplace
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The Scotiabank Rio Claro branch office. The bank has expanded its health care benefits to include the same-sex partners of employees. - FILE PHOTO
Scotiabank s inclusion of same-sex partners in health care benefits for employees in its local operations is more than an extension of a policy already in place at its Canadian head office. It’s a bold step forward. It reflects a groundswell of change. That change is as much local as it is international.
The pandemic has transformed the world. It has sharpened focus on inequalities.
There have been, and continue to be, important conversations about race. The sigh of relief after Tuesday’s guilty verdicts against the officer who murdered George Floyd could be heard all over the globe, not just in the US.
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Questions about and calls for COVID-19 data about racial communities in B.C. have been raised during the pandemic. But little, if any, issues have been raised about LGBT+ populations in B.C. during weekly B.C. briefings.
That s despite the fact that queer communities have extensive experience and a deeply rooted history of having had to contend with and address the impact that pandemics wreak having endured the devastation of the AIDS Crisis and the HIV pandemic.
There have been some national efforts to collect information about how the pandemic is affecting LGBT+ Canadians, including the Sex Now Survey (for men who have sex with men) by Vancouver’s Community Based Research Centre launched in August 2020 and online survey results released by Egale Canada in April 2020, which found LGBT+ people were more impacted by the pandemic than many other Canadians.
This record-breaking year for anti-transgender legislation would affect minors the most
Thirty-three states have introduced more than 100 bills that aim to curb the rights of transgender people across the country, with advocacy groups calling 2021 a record-breaking year for such legislation. Many of these bills are rapidly making their way through state legislatures. On April 6, Arkansas became the first state to outlaw providing gender-affirming treatment to minors, a move that the American Civil Liberties Union said would “send a terrible and heartbreaking message” to transgender youth across the country.
According to data from the Human Rights Campaign, one of the nation’s largest LGBTQ advocacy groups, at least 117 bills have been introduced in the current legislative session that target the transgender community. It’s the highest number the organization has recorded since it began tracking anti-LGBTQ legislation more than 15 years ago.
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