Canadian Parliament to criminalise hate propaganda against gender variant persons

Canadian Parliament has cleared the bill C-16, which amends the Canadian Human Rights Act to add gender identity and gender expression to the list of prohibited grounds of discrimination. It also amends the Criminal Code to extend the protection against hate propaganda to any persons who are distinguished by gender identity or expression. The bill also states that offences motivated by bias, prejudice or hate based on gender identity or expression constitutes an aggravating circumstance for the purposes of sentencing.