Nationality Canadian Role Lawyer Name Micheline Montreuil | Website www.micheline.ca Other names Helen Montreuil | |
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Born June 1952 Quebec, Province of Quebec, Canada Occupation Lawyer, writer, politician, radio host, trade unionist and politician Employer Universite du Quebec a Rimouski | ||
Micheline Anne Hélène Montreuil (born June 1952) is a Canadian lawyer, teacher, writer, radio host, trade unionist and politician.
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A transgender woman,she first became known for her legal struggles in front of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, the Superior Court and the Court of Appeal in Quebec. She is also known for her involvement as a politician.
Biography
Montreuil studied civil law, common law, management, industrial relations, ethics and education.
On September 13, 2003, she married the lawyer and author Michèle Morgan at the Quebec City Palais des arts.
In 2006-2007, she worked as a lawyer at the Conseil de la justice administrative du Québec. Since 2007, she is back as a lawyer in private practise and teacher of ethics, law and management at the UQAR, the Université du Québec à Rimouski.
Legal fights
In 1997, she begin a legal challenge against the Registrar of Civil Status of Quebec as she had not been permitted to legally change her name to Micheline. Following a Court of Appeals ruling, her request was finally accepted in 2002, but only for the name Micheline. She was obliged to gain one by one all her first names: Anne in 2008 and Hélène in 2011. (See Legal aspects of transsexualism.)
In 1998, the National Bank of Canada refused to hire Montreuil. In a judgment given on February 5, 2004, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruled that the National Bank of Canada had discriminated against her on the basis of her gender identity, despite the bank attributing it to over-qualification.
Few years later, in a judgment given on November 20, 2007, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruled that the Canadian Forces Grievance Board had discriminated against her on the basis of her gender identity.