The Trudeau Liberals celebrated the first anniversary of their election by voting for an NDP MP's bill that would guarantee rights to transgender people.

It was British Columbia NDPer Randall Garrison who proposed the measure, Bill 16, which, if enacted into law, will help to stop discrimination on the basis of transgender status.

The Liberal party and its leader favour this sort of legislative protection, and it is to their credit that they were happy to use an opposition MP's initiative as the opportunity to put their support-in-principle into action.