Christin Milloy

Christin Scarlett Milloy is a Canadian politician and LGBT activist. She was the first political candidate at the Canadian provincial level to publicly identify as transgender and ran for the Ontario Libertarian Party. She is a member of the Trans Lobby Group, which lobbied at Queen's Park to pass Toby's Law, and has campaigned for transgender rights and gay-straight alliances for LGBT youth.

Politics and activism

Ontario provincial election candidature In 2011, at age 27, Milloy was a candidate in the Ontario provincial election, running for the Libertarian Party. According to PQ Monthly, it was met with "venomous opposition." In an interview discussing the article and its surrounding controversy, Milloy advocated for de-legislating gender, which she described as a "necessary and positive step forward for our society." In a 2014 Toronto Star article, Milloy stated that her parents accepted her gender identity while her brother did not. She began identifying as a transgender woman at the age of 23. She works as a web developer.