B.C.’s Morgane Oger first transgender woman to be nominated by major party

CBC featured Morgane Oger, a UBC alumna who became the first transgender person to be nominated by a major Canadian political party as a candidate at any level of government.

Oger, who studied engineering at UBC, is a member of the Vancouver Board of Education’s Pride Committee and is chair of the Trans Alliance Society.

The story also appeared on Yahoo and a similar story appeared in the Vancouver Courier.