Transgender student files rights complaint

By Oliver Sachgau.Claims U of M wrongly turfed him from program. A transgender student has launched a human rights complaint against the University of Manitoba's inner-city social work program after he said he was forced out by the administration. Damien Leggett was transitioning from female to male when he started attending the program in 2010. He said his problems started when a professor in his program didn't refer to him by the male pronoun.
"I wasn't expecting it to be perfect, but once it was brought to the professors' attention several times that this is really painful to me... But to be fair, most of the professors there were amenable to learning," Leggett said. Read more...