Kimberley Manning

Kimberley Manning, principal of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute and professor of political science in the Faculty of Arts and Science, appears in media coverage of yesterday's hearings of the Senate committee on legal and Constitutional Affairs as it studies Bill C-16 — the Transgender Rights Bill. Manning appeared before the committee alongside other parents of transgender children to plead for passage of the proposed legislation. Manning and her transgender daughter, Florence, are quoted in the coverage: CBC.ca, CTV News Ottawa (video, with Kimberley Manning at the 1:28 mark, and accompanying text), The Star, and The Canadian Press (picked up by  LaPresse.ca, Le Devoir, The Globe and Mail, NewsCaf, The Halifax Chronicle Herald, Cape  Breton Post, Metro News, City News, Winnipeg Free Press, The Brandon Sun, Medicine Hat News, Nanaimo News Now, The Victoria Times Colonist, Red Deer News Now, The Chronicle Journal, The Waterloo Record, Sudbury.com, 680News.com, News1130.com, 660News.com, CFJC Today, The Daily Courier, Today Ville, TB News Watch), Health Medicine Network, iPolitics (behind a paywall). Florence Manning also speaks on camera, with her mother, Kimberley, at her side, at the 12:05 mark of CBC's The National. More coverage appeared on Radio Canada International (in Spanish), Yahoo! News, Guelph Today, Travel and Leisure.