Lived Trans Experience (Guest Lecture) Flashcards
When did Amanda understand she was a girl?
at 4-years-old identifying and socially fitting in with girls and not boys.
What did Amanda know by age 7?
By 7, I also knew I could not “come out” because I would be hospitalized (institutionalized) as it was illegal and considered to be a mental health illness.
I would have been subjected to conversion therapy and other dramatic treatments like electroshock therapy and possibly lobotomy.
How did Amanda learn to be a male?
5 decades of pretending to be a male by learning to mimic behaviours I observed in males around me.
What could Amanda never feel comfortable with?
Never fitting in or feeling comfortable in male settings, making friends with females only to have these friendships dashed because of my forced male identity.
Why did OHIP deny Amanda’s request for gender confirmation surgery?
didn’t use the doctors at CAMH to access and recommend my GCS instead I used local qualified psychologist. Also, I selected a surgeon in the United States (US) to perform the surgery not the surgeon in Montreal.
Using this system it would have taken about 10-years compared to the 2-years it took me by pursuing the path I took.
What complainsts did Amanda file to the Ontario human rights commission about not getting her surgery?
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Ontario health act states that I have the right to select me own doctors. The regulation that OHIP had in place denied all transgender individuals, including me, that right and was the only such regulation in place.
The regulation, caused a backlog of more than six years to get appointments at CAMH and Montreal. Therefore effectively denying my rights to access to GCS within a reasonable time frame.
Bilateral Breast Reduction was offered by OHIP to Female-to-Male (FtM) patients but Bilateral Breast Augmentation (BBA) was denied to Male-to-Female (MtF) patients which is clearly discrimination based on gender.
What did Ontario do in response to Amandas claims?
The end of March 2016, 4-days before the hearing, Ontario announced there were changing the regulation for GCS approval and removed the restrictions I listed in my complaint.
What is pride Londons mission statement?
Pride London Festival’s Mission is to provide an annual opportunity to generate celebratory, cultural, artistic and educational events which affirm the lives GLBTT2 people and supporters through actives which promote unity, inclusion and awareness of sexual and gender diversity.
What is changing about pride Londons mission statement?
This is old and going to be changed this year to include year long community outreach and education events.
What is the bill C6
AN ACT to amend the Criminal Code (Conversion Therapy).
Could no longer adversite the therapy, cant accept people 18 yrs and younger, camt move people outside the country and force peoepl into the therapy
Removes ability to offere and perform conversion therapy on youth
What doesn’t bill C6 protect against?
Doesn’t protect against adults who enter willingly
What terms are included under the gender spectrum?
Trans males and females Genderqueer Nonbinary Agender In or outside the gender spectrum Cross Dressers
What is gender queer?
People whos gender is fluid and moves based on hiw they aee feeling in the particulattime in life
What is non binary?
Gender tends to remain a little more fixed in the middle of the spectrum. Simlar to above
What is Agenda?
They don’t believe they have a gender at all
What does the DSM5 consider cross dressers?
Transvestites
Why isn’t drag queen under the transgender spectrum ?
Used to include drag queens, but theey are gay men normally, and soley done for the purpose of a performance, they do not identify as their stage persona
How many people are predicted to be trans?
1 in 200 may be trans (transgender, transsexual, or transitioned)1
What % people were living win their felt gender with no medical intervention?
23%
What percent were using hormones?
42%
-most people stop herer
What % undergo surgery?
5% of male-to-female had undergone vaginoplasty
0.4% of female-to-male had phalloplasty.
What sis the difference in the % of different surgeries due to?
Differentce is the result of the compleexities of the surgeriees
What age group do you find mot trans people?
34% - 16 to 24
29% - 25 to 24
How educated are trans people?
13% did not complete high school 16% high school diploma 28% some college or university (started then dropped) 36% college or university degree 7% grad/professional degree
What did the rtes transgender come unit use?
The term transgender came into use in the 20th century (Freud called it Sexual Inversion in late 1800s) no consistent name prior to this.
What did Christians see trans folk as?
Christian cultures saw gender non-conforming people as deviants and sinners.
Punishable by death.
How often do trans folk experience transphobia?
“Experiences of transphobia were nearly universal among trans Ontarians, with 98% reporting at least one experience of transphobia.”
“Almost all (96%) had heard that trans people aren’t normal.”
Ask to categorized levels of experienced transphobia; -39% said low,
- 51% said moderate, and -11% said high.
What did the bill C6 get passed?
in 2017 adding gender identity and expression protections to the charter of rights and the Federal Criminal Code
How were the provincial governess ahead of national government in terms of their regulations?
Prior to this every province had named transgender people as an at-risk minority, or implied it, in their individual Human Rights Codes.
All have applied “Hate Crime” statutes to the codes.
What is the wage gap like for trans folk?
In Canada women make 87 cents per hour for every $1 and man makes.
The wage gap is greater for transgender people who can see their wages drop by 30%
How many people live under the poverty line
1% of transgender people live under the poverty line in Canada, less than $30,000-per-year.
Results in homelessness and unable to afford basic necessities
Many turn to illegal drug sales or survival sex work. (increase risk for violence and arrest)
How much do transgender people make a year?
50% - less than $15,000
21% - $15,000 to $29,999 16% - $30,000 to $49,999 7% - $50,000 to $79,999 7% - $80,000 and above
What were trans folk charactreized as?
Characterized as mentally ill, social deviants and sexual predators.
Who were trans folk vulnerable to?
Lawmakers who attempt to score political points using transphobic rhetoric
Rejection by family, friends and coworkers
People who harass, bully and commit serious violence against us.
What is the trans murder rate in Canada?
1 in 2017 and 2019 but 3 in 2020
-not all murders are counted in these stats
What are trans experiences with police?
22% experience bias-based harassment, higher among transgender persons of colour
6% reported sexual assault,
2% reported sexual assault by police
20% denied equal service by police
50% uncomfortable turning to police for help
What are trans people experience in prisons?
Approximately two-thirds usually did not feel safe while in prison.
About two-thirds had experienced hostility or verbal harassment, and about one-third had experienced physical violence, related to being trans.
61% who had been in prison while presenting in their felt gender were not in the prison appropriate to their felt gender, some or all of the time.
What is the jails mistake when intaking trans folk?
They put Trans femals in male unit, trans male in female
What tree the barriers for trans folk to health?
Data is limited because of lack of studies
Transgender people report their healthcare needs are not being met
44% of transgender people state healthcare top priority to them
Significant need for greater and better transgender healthcare
MD’s lack transgender healthcare competency
20% report having treatment refused
How many trans folk do not have a family dr?
17.2% of transgender patients did not have a family physician.
Indigenous and persons of colour are less likely to have a family physician
Why do trans folk have issues with family physicians?
However, physicians receive little to no training on this patient population, and trans patients are often profoundly uncomfortable and may avoid health care.”
“Within this transgender population, discomfort in discussing trans health issues with a family physician was common, presenting a barrier to accessing primary care despite having a regular family physician and “universal” health insurance.”
how many trans folk experience their health are needs not being met?
43.9%
If you ar trans what do you have an increase prevalence for?
The prevalence of cocaine and amphetamine use among transgender people in Ontario, Canada was higher than in the age-standardized reference population.”
What is HED?
Heavy episodic drinking?
Who is most likely to participate in HED?
“Transmasculine (female-to-male spectrum) persons were more likely than transfeminine persons to report HED (42.2% versus 22.7%), an effect robust to covariate adjustment.”
“Current sex work was associated with greater HED, but gender transition and social exclusion factors were not.”
How many trans youth contemplate suicide?
42% of transgender youth report contemplating or attempting suicide, 30 times the average report rate.
What are the factors that contribute to trans youth wanting to commit suicide?
Family rejection
Homelessness
Not completing high school or getting post-secondary education
Unemployment and poverty
Exploited
Misidentified or misgendered frequently.
