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Trans/ Gender Independent/ Gender Variant Children and Youth

Trans/ Gender Independent/ Gender Variant Children and Youth. j wallace j@juxtaposeconsulting.com. "There's absolutely nothing radical about working hard as a community to make sure that every single student in our schools can be safe and accepted and succeed,".

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Trans/ Gender Independent/ Gender Variant Children and Youth

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  1. Trans/ Gender Independent/ Gender Variant Children and Youth j wallace j@juxtaposeconsulting.com

  2. "There's absolutely nothing radical about working hard as a community to make sure that every single student in our schools can be safe and accepted and succeed," Ontario’s Education Minister Laurel Broten

  3. Why do this work?

  4. One parent’s answer • “As Andi’s parents… we could either choose to allow her to express herself and work to place her in as supportive environment as possible, or we could teach her to suppress her true self, possibly leading to depression and low self-worth. In other words either she could fit the world, or we could construct her world to fit her….” Parent of a 6 year old transgender girl

  5. A Quick primer on Sex, Gender and Gender Identity

  6. Thinking about our own Gender Identities

  7. Building Inclusive Beliefs about Gender

  8. Gender Independent?Gender Variant?Transgender?Transsexual?Gender Creative?A boy-girl

  9. Supporting Children

  10. Where could a family go for support? • In my community?

  11. Where my child would be the majority… • Camp Aranu’tiq (July 1-7, Aug. 19-25) http://www.camparanutiq.org/ • Gender Spectrum Family Conference (July)http://www.genderspectrum.org/ • Gender Odyssey Family Conference (Aug 2-5) http://www.genderodysseyfamily.org/ • Camp Ten Oaks (Aug 14-20) http://www.camptenoaks.org/ • National Workshop on Gender Creative Kids (Oct. 25-26) gender.creative@gmail.com

  12. Dates for school activities • January 23-27 No Name Calling Week • February 16 Family Day • February 26-March 3 Freedom to read week. • February 29 Pink Shirt Day • April 11 Pink Shirt Day • April 20 Day of Silence • May 17 International Day Against Homophobia • Windsor Pride Festival

  13. Putting this into action

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