Debra Haak

Conceptual clarity around the words and terms #sex, #gender, #genderidentity, and #genderexpression is crucial to promoting, protecting, and reconciling rights (claims) and knowing about diverse experiences in Canada. @SSHRC_CRSH @CBA_News Read more: law.queensu.ca/news/Project-a…

Proposals are due next week. Join us! We welcome individual paper and complete panel proposals on topics related to conference theme of Women, Disability and Intersectionality: Designing for Equality and Leaving No One Behind. Attendance/presentation available in hybrid format.

If granted standing, this case could be the first where a Canadian court will directly address the intersection of rights based on sex and those based on gender identity, including by considering use of the words female and woman in law and policy.

For some further thoughts on Kloubakov, the legality of prostitution in Canada, what the current criminal laws do & do not capture, and what PCEPA & the Commodification Offences aim to accomplish, see my article forthcoming in the Supreme Court Law Review dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5…

The two #c16 amendments relevant to #femicide are (1) murder is first degree when death is caused while motivated by hate based on sex (2) in sentencing manslaughter judge shall consider imprisonment for life if person who committed manslaughter was motivated by hate based on sex

Full text of Bill C-16 - Protecting Victims Act now available online parl.ca/DocumentViewer…

Watch for the Protecting Victims Act today youtube.com/live/7_dAbzrVj…

‘This absence of even the most basic data betrays the truth behind the government’s much-vaunted pledge to halve violence against women and girls in a decade: they cannot reduce what they do not bother to count.’ unherd.com/newsroom/sarah…

And if you're not into academic research, see this shorter op-ed also co-authored with @DebraMHaak Sex-motivated violence should be treated as a hate crime theconversation.com/sex-motivated-…

And co-authored with @DebraMHaak... Treating Male Violence against Women and Girls as Hate in Canada utppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.313… (2/3)

The war on #Gaza has left 12,000 women and girls newly disabled. Returning from Gaza, our humanitarian chief @SofiaCalltorp shared what women told her: hunger, repeated displacement, unbearable loss — and their determination to rebuild their communities. unwo.men/22I350XxmHG

Last month in Australia “The Queensland health minister has issued a new order banning the prescription of puberty blockers for transgender patients, just hours after the state’s supreme court ruled the government’s first attempt was unlawful.” theguardian.com/australia-news…

Similar news in Canada “It prohibits doctors from providing treatment such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy to those under 16 for purposes of gender reassignment.”

News from New Zealand “New patients seeking treatment for gender dysphoria or incongruence can no longer be prescribed gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogues, pending the completion of the United Kingdom's clinical trial on their use in this context.” beehive.govt.nz/release/new-sa…

In the context of engaging in an illegal activity, providers may lawfully: work together and hire non-exploitive third parties to promote safety But commercial enterprises set up to allow third parties to profit from that illegal activity remain unlawful 2/2

PSA: sex work law in Canada Kloubakov clarified the law but researchers continue to misstate the law Sex work (involving sexual touching) is illegal. Purchasing is an offence. Providers are a party to that offence (however they will not be prosecuted) 1/2

A non-exhaustive list of possible legislative responses to Senneville.

Very useful - and important - clarification by the majority of The Characteristics of a Reasonably Foreseeable Scenario in section 12 cases decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/scc-cs…

@DwightNewmanLaw Fascinating groupings of judges

And a 5-to-4 majority of the Supreme Court of Canada has now ruled that a one-year minimum sentence for the offence of possession of child pornography is unconstitutional…. decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/scc-cs…

Call for proposals is live! Join us!! @queensulaw @FLSQueens @BitaAmani1 Women, Disability, and Intersectionality: Designing for Equality and Leaving No One Behind Mar 13-14, 2026 #women #disability #intersectionality femlaw.queensu.ca/conferences/fl…