Download or read book Are We 'persons' Yet? written by Kathleen A. Lahey and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1929 women were declared 'persons' under the British North America Act. Seventy years later a similar move is afoot to establish constitutional personhood for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, and transgendered people.