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LGBTQ+ Communities in Canada: Challenges and Perspectives

Explore the experiences and challenges faced by LGBTQ+ individuals in Canada, including transitioning, family and cultural support, legal changes, non-normative identities, and the importance of safe spaces. Discover the impacts of early hormone treatment, difficulty accessing surgery, and the role of poverty. Delve into the diverse identities within the LGBTQ+ community and the evolving nature of the movement.

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LGBTQ+ Communities in Canada: Challenges and Perspectives

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  1. Public Clothes Pronouns Makeup Voice Hair Appearance

  2. What it is like to transition in Canada Young people (discussion points) • Hormone blockers • Impacts of early hormone treatment • Impact of family support • Impact of cultural supports Adults (discussion points) • Impacts of familypoisition • Difficultyaccessingsurgery • Acess to hormones • Normative vs. Non-Normative

  3. LGBTQ Normative vs Non-Normative Identities

  4. Non-Normatives Identities When discussing the LGBTQ2S+ Community there is a notion that it is singular—when in fact is is CommunitIES The evolution of the gay (and then lesbian) movement has been hetero-normative "They way we torture people is by telling them they are something ELSE, then when we know they are not us, we TORTURE them. As such they conform. And if they can’t, they die.” –DJ Freedman What if LGBTQ+ people are oppressors?

  5. Non-normative identities • Who are theses you? • What are the challenges these youth face? • Why can’t they just fit in? • Why is what they need so difficult? • Bonus points: What role does poverty play? • Super Bonus points: Why is no one talking about this?

  6. Legal changes • What is the experience of getting your ID changed?

  7. Sexual orientation • Curious - Bisexual • Straight - Asexual • Lesbian - Pansexual • Gay

  8. Two-Spirit ‘Third gender’ people were highly valued within their communities as medicine people and marriage counsellors. The first to greet the colonisers, the first to be murdered. Identities and language were destroyed.

  9. Learn more: • Find a good glossary here: http://ccgsd-ccdgs.org/lgbtq2-vocabulary/ • Learn about Pride Flags: http://ccgsd-ccdgs.org/washroom-sign-2/

  10. The Acronymn • LGBTQ2 (Prime Minister) • LGBTQI2+ (CCGSD) • LGBTI (international) • SOGI (BC) • GSM (AB) • 2TBLGQ (SK) • GSD (Atlantic)

  11. Is equity your mindset?

  12. Safe space (origins) • The term safe space refers to places created for individuals who feel marginalized to come together to communicate regarding their experiences with marginalization, most commonly located on university campuses in the western world, but also at workplaces. • The origin of this in Canada comes from Positive Space campaigns (traced back the University of Toronto) where folks sought to create a positive space (improved space) for queer & trans folks on Campus.

  13. The Challenges of of a Safe space • Many on both the right and the left have argued that a Safe Space is problematic. • On the left: Folks say it sets an unreasonable expectation that cannot be met for workspaces, schools or community. • On the right: Folks say that it leads to censorship and silencing of important discourse and debate. • So what do we do?

  14. Solution 1: Positive Space • Positive Space: a space that makes a 1-PROACTIVE effort to be supportive of 2-LGBTQ2+ folks. This is about creating a space that is 3-ALWAYS in evolution of improving. • This is effective in schools, workplaces and community centers.

  15. Solution 2 :Brave(r) Spaces • Brave(r) Space: a space that recognizes it is a 1-CHALLENGING space to exist in, and therefore asks folks to be 2-BRAVE in using the space. This is often used when folks have common goals, but varying experiences, strategies or abilities • This is effective in committees, activism circles and social justice circles.

  16. Solution 3 :Safe(R) Spaces • Safe(r) Space: a space that it is impossible to guarantee 1-SAFETY and so like a Positive Space seeks to foster the 2-INTENTION of an ever evolving space and a 3-CHANGING DEFINITION of a Safe Space. • This is ONLY effective in spaces where is room for regular check-in’s about the culture of the space.

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