The transgender community's campaign for human rights protection under the law may represent the final frontier in the fight against sex-based discrimination.

“If that biological male happens to be trans, well, you know, we are all given a cross to bear and that does not give one person rights over another person.”

An NDP MP who has waited more than three years to see what happens to his bill that seeks to enshrine transgender rights in Canada says he hopes the Senate moves quickly to pass it into law.