Happy Trans Day of Visibility to everyone who celebrates!
TDOV was created by Rachel Crandall-Crocker to celebrate trans life and bring trans communities together. In 2023, she explained: “I created the Transgender Day of Visibility back in 2009. And the reason why I did that, is because there was an awful lot of loneliness (…) and I wanted a day that we could be […]
Statement on Gender-Affirming Care Ban in Alberta
Last week, Alberta passed Canada’s first gender-affirming care ban, ignoring the medical consensus, evidence, and the trans youth and their families who begged them not to do this. We condemn these laws.
Trans Day of Remembrance 2024
We mourn those who we have lost to anti-trans violence, whether that violence was enacted by individuals or by policies and institutions.
Statement on Incoming Gender-Affirming Care Ban in Alberta
Recently, the government of Alberta recommitted to banning and restricting gender-affirming care for Albertan trans youth, along with passing other anti-trans legislation impacting both education and sports. This will begin next week when Alberta’s legislature reconvenes. The medications used in gender-affirming care will still be available to cis youth for other medical purposes, but they […]
IDAHOBIT 2024: Everyone deserves to feel safe and accepted
Anti-trans policy and legislative shifts highlight the pervasiveness of anti-trans attacks on safety, bodily autonomy, and healthcare access. This is not a faraway problem impacting people we do not know and will never meet.
Recognize and End Interphobia
Trans and intersex people experience discrimination for having bodies and experiences that do not conform to socially constructed sex and gender binaries.
Statement on government of Alberta’s newly announced policies
The policy changes announced yesterday by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith put trans youth at risk, taking recent politically motivated legislative and policy changes targeting trans and gender diverse communities in Saskatchewan and New Brunswick even further. This is a direct attack on trans and gender diverse youth that will cause harm.
Trans Day of Remembrance: November 20, 2023
This year on TDOR, we remember everyone murdered through the violence of colonial occupation, whether directly by weapons and bombardment, or indirectly by the coordinated obstruction of the necessities of life.
Statement re: Anti-Trans Disinformation in The Spectator
On July 21st The Hamilton Spectator published the letter Unwillingness to challenge partisan paradigms in Canadian gender affirmation research. It is a clear example of the rhetoric and tactics that modern anti-trans movements use to dehumanize trans people and strip them of human rights.
In the face of organized anti-trans actors targeting the gender affirmation of all trans youth, it is critical to learn to recognize and call out anti-trans narratives. The July 21st letter is anti-trans disinformation. It attempts to delegitimize the most basic, fundamental practices for supporting trans youth under the guise of concern and debate. This is harmful to trans youth and to the wider Hamilton trans community. This kind of disinformation has permeated mainstream Canadian media and we are saddened to see direct local impacts.
Statement on NB’s Revised Policy 713
We want to highlight a serious issue happening in New Brunswick, because it has implications for trans and non-binary communities across the country. The New Brunswick government has been engaged in a review of Policy 713 (original 2020 version). This policy was introduced in 2020 and establishes the minimum standards for how schools in New […]