Jennifer McCreath - 03/31/2010 - Transsexual Health Discrimination Lecture (1 of 4)

Jennifer McCreath's public speech (part 1 of 4)
Memorial University of Newfoundland's LGBTQ Health Awareness Week
Panel Discussion: LGBTQ Health Care Issues
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Centre for Music, Media and Place
Arts and Culture Centre,
St. John's, NL, Canada

Jennifer McCreath is a public figure best-known for advocating for human rights and access to health care, as well as helping society gain a better understanding, education, and awareness of transsexualism and the issues transsexuals face. She has been featured on NTV and CBC and VOCM news, as well as in Telegram and Scope newspapers. She's been a guest speaker at a variety of public events, addressing audiences including university students, St. John's PRIDE week festivities attendees, health care professionals, and politicians & government policy makers. She has also been a guest lecturer for a variety of courses at Memorial University. She also sits on Canada Blood Services' LGBTTQ Working Group.

In this video, Jennifer speaks out about human rights discrimination and other flaws that exist within our province's health care system, and our local community's support system, with regards to transsexual women's ability to secure timely and affordable medically-necessary health care in our province.

Jennifer will detail everything from a flawed approach, a flawed piece of out-of-date legislation, a complete lack of direction and framework for going forward, and the deaf ears and hostility she has been met with when she has asked for help or made suggestions for improvement.

Jennifer will make recommendations for how the provincial system can be improved and steps that local community support entities can take to help ensure that our province adopts and adheres to global best practices.

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