Keywords:
trans clinic, allies, non-binary, advocacy, TDSB, trans inclusion, activism, school forms
trans clinic, allies, non-binary, advocacy, TDSB, trans inclusion, activism, school forms
Transcript
Ruby: My other mom, um, is a team lead in adolescent medicine at Sick Kids and she also runs the adolescent trans clinic, um, so she’s pretty involved in that too. My friends all kind of know that, um, and so one of them, she knew about my friends and she knew about who was kind of going through what and how they were feeling, and she was also just really mad about all the gender stuff and really mad that when she-- at the curriculum--no, at my parent-teacher interview, like last year, she kind of faced off against one of my teachers and was like, “so, you guys do this a lot, what do you do if you have a non-binary kid?” And my teacher kind of went, “oh well there aren’t really any plans in place by the TDSB” and there are, so my mom was like, you should know that, and kind of got a little lectury, kind of.
Tara: Yah.
Ruby: Um, and that was a thing, and she’s been very involved in contacting TDSB people and she, um, was involved in getting some of the sign-in forms at the official TDSB stuff to no longer say, um, male or female on them, too.
Ruby: My other mom, um, is a team lead in adolescent medicine at Sick Kids and she also runs the adolescent trans clinic, um, so she’s pretty involved in that too. My friends all kind of know that, um, and so one of them, she knew about my friends and she knew about who was kind of going through what and how they were feeling, and she was also just really mad about all the gender stuff and really mad that when she-- at the curriculum--no, at my parent-teacher interview, like last year, she kind of faced off against one of my teachers and was like, “so, you guys do this a lot, what do you do if you have a non-binary kid?” And my teacher kind of went, “oh well there aren’t really any plans in place by the TDSB” and there are, so my mom was like, you should know that, and kind of got a little lectury, kind of.
Tara: Yah.
Ruby: Um, and that was a thing, and she’s been very involved in contacting TDSB people and she, um, was involved in getting some of the sign-in forms at the official TDSB stuff to no longer say, um, male or female on them, too.