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Originally Posted by CaptainYooh
What's more, we've never seen anything remotely close to this level of controversy and media attention to the much more profound and serious issues around disabled Canadians. I am involved in advocacy for the disabled and this bothers me a lot.
There are no good stats, but Canada LGBT population is loosely estimated at 30,000-40,000 people. Of those, transgendered population is a very small proportion, a few hundred to a thousand at most, I am guessing. There are 3,800,000 (!) disabled people in Canada going through an enormous physical and mental struggle every day of their lives; many of them surviving only on $1,500/month government assistance. I guess, their issues are just not sexy enough to be of interest to social media.
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I was talking with a co-worker about transgender change rooms a while ago, and she advocated renovating all the change rooms in Canada to add a third option. I pointed out that nowhere near half of change rooms and washrooms in Canada are wheelchair accessible, even though the number of Canadians in wheelchairs is at least an order of magnitude greater than the transgendered population.
I know people love to get riled up over hot-button issues and stark moral principles. But sometimes practical, utilitarian considerations need to be taken into account.