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