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Together, we’re moving toward gender justice

West Coast LEAF works to deepen justice and substantive equality for women, people who experience gender discrimination, and Indigenous peoples and communities. Through our community-engaged legal practice, we collaborate with those most impacted and marginalized by systems of oppression, and stop at nothing less than transformative social change.

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Who we are

We’re a passionate group of equity advocates striving toward positive systemic change in BC (and beyond) through litigation, law reform, and public legal education designed to create a more equitable, accessible, and just system for all.

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Featured work

Family Well-Being Coalition

We’re building spaces for advocacy to challenge the family policing landscape in BC…

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Short Films: Two-Spirit affirming care with the Urban Native Youth Association

Access to gender-affirming, trauma-informed, and culturally safe health care saves lives…

R.R. v Vancouver Aboriginal Child and Family Services Society [2020]

This is a complaint before the BC Human Rights Tribunal about discrimination in the family policing system…

Ahluwalia v Ahluwalia [2024]

We’re intervening in this case to address the legal implications of myths about intimate partner violence in family and tort cases…

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We need your help to make positive, transformative change.