Christin Milloy
{{Short description|Canadian politician and LGBT activist}}
Christin Scarlett Milloy{{Cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/31/canadian-air-travel-regulations-transgender-passengers_n_1244222.html|title=Transgender Rights Advocates Concerned Over Canadian Air Travel Regulations On Gender And Appearance|date=January 31, 2012|website=The Huffington Post|access-date=June 23, 2016}} is a Canadian politician{{Cite web|url=http://www.dailyxtra.com/toronto/news-and-ideas/news/trans-candidate-makes-canadian-history-in-ontario-4749|title=Trans candidate makes Canadian history in Ontario|publisher=Daily Xtra|date=September 27, 2011|access-date=June 23, 2016}} and LGBT activist.{{Cite web|url=http://www.dailyxtra.com/toronto/news-and-ideas/news/two-trans-marches-planned-worldpride-in-toronto-88442|title=Two trans marches planned for WorldPride in Toronto|publisher=Daily Xtra|date=June 26, 2014|access-date=June 23, 2016|archive-date=July 9, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160709114416/http://www.dailyxtra.com/toronto/news-and-ideas/news/two-trans-marches-planned-worldpride-in-toronto-88442|url-status=dead}} She was the first political candidate at the Canadian provincial level to publicly identify as transgender and ran for the Ontario Libertarian Party. In 2014, she helped lead the Trans Pride march.{{Cite web|url=http://www.dailyxtra.com/toronto/news-and-ideas/news/pride-nearly-fun-disabled-guests-95333|title=Pride not nearly as fun for disabled guests|publisher=Daily Xtra|date=November 1, 2014|access-date=June 23, 2016|archive-date=August 15, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160815084659/http://www.dailyxtra.com/toronto/news-and-ideas/news/pride-nearly-fun-disabled-guests-95333|url-status=dead}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.dailyxtra.com/toronto/news-and-ideas/news/meet-pride-torontos-board-nominees-3474|title=Meet Pride Toronto's board nominees|website=Daily Xtra|date=October 23, 2012|access-date=June 23, 2016}}
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 birth certificate, increasing government-sponsored coverage of sex reassignment procedures, eliminating the harmonized sales tax (HST), and redistributing alcohol sales from the LCBO 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.{{Cite news|url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2014/06/26/infant_gender_assignment_unnecessary_and_potentially_harmful.html|title=Don't Let the Doctor Do This to Your Newborn|last=Milloy|first=Christin Scarlett|date=2014-06-26|newspaper=Slate|language=en-US|issn=1091-2339|access-date=2016-06-23}} According to PQ Monthly, it was met with "venomous opposition."{{Cite web|url=http://www.pqmonthly.com/dont-let-doctor-infant-author-christin-milloy-ending-gender-assignment-birth/20818|title="Don't Let the Doctor Do This to Your Infant" author Christin Milloy on Ending Gender Assignment at Birth|newspaper=PQ Monthly|date=October 15, 2014|access-date=June 23, 2016|archive-date=August 10, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160810124642/http://www.pqmonthly.com/dont-let-doctor-infant-author-christin-milloy-ending-gender-assignment-birth/20818|url-status=usurped}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://nowtoronto.com/news/flying-fix/|title=Flying fix|newspaper=Now|date=February 9, 2012|access-date=June 23, 2016}}
Personal life
Milloy grew up in Mississauga.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-passes-law-to-protect-transgender-people-1.1172029|title=Ontario passes law to protect transgender people|publisher=CBC News|date=June 13, 2012|access-date=June 23, 2016}} In a 2014 Toronto Star article, Milloy stated that her parents accepted her gender identity while her brother did not.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thestar.com/news/pridetoronto/2014/06/26/trans_transgender_im_not_a_guy_in_a_dress_trans_woman_explains.html|title=Trans, transgender: 'I'm not a guy in a dress,' trans woman explains|newspaper=Toronto Star|date=June 26, 2014|access-date=June 23, 2016}} She began identifying as a transgender woman at the age of 23. She works as a web developer.
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Category:Canadian libertarians
Category:Transgender women politicians
Category:Canadian transgender politicians
Category:Canadian LGBTQ rights activists
Category:People from Mississauga
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)