Micheline Montreuil

Me Micheline Anne Montreuil (born Pierre Montreuil ) is a lawyer, professeure, écrivaine, politicking radio presenter, trade unionist and Québécois (Canadian). Transgenre, it was made known inter alia by its legal fights taking advantage of its rights as such. March 31st, 2007, a Investiture without opposition chose it like official candidate of the Nouveau Democratic party (NPD) in the county of Quebec. That did to the first anybody of it transgenre history to be introduced for a major party to the Canada.

Biography

Micheline Anne Montreuil was born in 1952 in the town of Quebec, ancestral city of her family since 1627 and always her place of residence. Of male sex by the birth, Micheline Montreuil is a person transgenre and started has to use the first name " Micheline" in 1986. It made its studies in right, Common Law, labor relations, administration and education. September 13rd, 2003, vêtue of a wedding gown, it married with the Palais of arts of Quebec the lawyer and auteure Michele Morgan. It is the first marriage of Micheline Montreuil and this marriage was largely médiatisé, as well in the newspapers as on television. She also worked as lawyer with the Council of the administrative justice of Quebec. Currently, it is of return as in practice private lawyer and is of part-time lecturer in ethics to the Université of Quebec with Rimouski.

Political commitment

Micheline Anne Montreuil in particular made known himself for her battles as a transgenre. For example, in 1997, it started a legal fight against the Directeur of the civil statue of Quebec to have the right to change legally its name for a female name. November 7th, 2002, the Court of Appeal of Quebec gives him reason. As, in 1998, the national Banque refused to engage Micheline Montreuil, pretexting as it was " surqualifiée, condescending and centered on it-même". In a judgment returned on February 5th, 2004, the Canadian Court of the rights of the person recognized that the national Bank had acted in a discriminatory way at its place. Within the New Democratic party, a federal party, Micheline Anne Montruil occupy the stations of Coprésidente of Commission LGBT of the NPD, Membre of the Federal council of the NPD, President associated with the Quebec Section of the NPD and Coprésidente of Commission LGBTT of the Quebec Section of the NPD. It was made elect president of Section 225 of the Syndicat of the public office of Quebec. It was also Canadian member of the boards of directors of the Funds of the rights of the person and of Egale Canada.

It was candidate with the nomination in 1984 in the county of Langelier for the Liberal party of Canada, candidate in 1993 at the station of municipal adviser of the District the Blessed Sacrament for the civic Progrès of Quebec and candidate with the nomination in 2001 in the district Saint-Roch and Midsummer's Day Baptiste for the municipal Renouveau of Quebec. In 2007, it gained without opposition the nomination of the county of Quebec for the NPD. It then obtained in the media the support of the chief of the party Jack Layton. Saying itself very at ease with this choice, this last declared that to have candidates being able to raise questions about the equality showed that the NPD is very open and that the Inhabitants of Quebec were sufficiently progressists to accept the differences. Its political objectives include the fight with the problems of poverty, unemployment and homeless person. Elected, it would be the third deputy transgenre in the world, after Georgina Beyer in New Zealand and Vladimir Luxuria in Italy.

See too

Political of the Québécois town of Quebec
Political
Political Canadian
Social movements LGBT
LGBT

External bonds

Official site of Micheline Montreuil
Commission LGBTT of the NPD - Section Quebec

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