By Jeanette Stewart, The StarPhoenixAugust 18, 2009
Transgendered people are not being fully served under the Canada Health Act, a physician and member of Parliament said Monday in Saskatoon.
"I feel like it's the last piece of discrimination under medicare," said Dr. Hedy Fry, the Liberal MP for Vancouver-Centre.
Fry is using her trip to Saskatoon for the annual Canadian Medical Association meeting to hear concerns from a number of special interest groups in the city, including seniors' groups, the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) community and city officials, as well as participating in a round table on multiculturalism.
On Monday, Fry met with University of Saskatchewan Students' Union president Warren Kirkland to discuss concerns of the GLBT community as well as the dearth of young people in politics.
The lack of access and equality for transgendered people is a huge issue across the country, said Fry, who served a high number of gay and lesbian patients at the time she was first elected to Parliament in 1993.
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