Christin Scarlett Milloy is a Canadian politician and LGBT activist. She was the first political candidate at the Canadian provincial level to publicly identify as transgender and ran for the

Ontario Libertarian Party The Ontario Libertarian Party (OLP; french: Parti libertarien de l'Ontario) is a minor libertarian party in the Canadian province of Ontario. Founded in 1975 by Bruce Evoy and Vince Miller, the party was inspired by the 1972 formation of the Unit ...

. In 2014, she helped lead the Trans Pride march. She is a member of the Trans Lobby Group, which lobbied at Queen's Park to pass Toby's Law, and has campaigned for transgender rights and gay-straight alliances for LGBT youth.

Politics and activism

Ontario provincial election candidature

In 2011, at age 27, Milloy was a candidate in the Ontario provincial election, running for the Libertarian Party. Priorities of her platform included simplifying the process of changing one's sex designation on a

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, increasing government-sponsored coverage of sex reassignment procedures, eliminating the harmonized sales tax (HST), and redistributing alcohol sales from the

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to private businesses, "such as convenience stores."

Publications

In June 2014, Milloy published "Don't Let the Doctor Do This to your Newborn" on Slate.com, which advocated against observing an infant's sex. According to '' PQ Monthly'', it was met with "venomous opposition." In an interview discussing the article and its surrounding controversy, Milloy advocated for de-legislating gender, which she described as a "necessary and positive step forward for our society." Milloy runs a blog covering the topic of transgender issues.

Personal life

Milloy grew up in Mississauga. In a 2014 ''

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'' article, Milloy stated that her parents accepted her gender identity while her brother did not. She began identifying as a transgender woman at the age of 23. She works as a web developer.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Milloy, Christin Living people Canadian libertarians Transgender women politicians Canadian transgender politicians Canadian LGBT rights activists People from Mississauga Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Canadian LGBT people