Date/Time
Date(s) - May 27, 2014
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Location
The Vancouver Club
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“A local trans-rights advocate is applauding the efforts of the Vancouver School Board to update its school policy and student conduct guidelines to better support transgender students. The school board has spent the past few months listening to concerns in order to revise a 10-year-old plan created to help foster a safe learning environment. Marie Little, chair of Vancouver’s Trans Alliance Society, says the revisions are both welcomed, and necessary. “It indicates people are beginning to move in the right direction in their thinking,” she said.The new content in the draft plan includes a section on gender identity and expression, and the guidelines outline practices that include allowing trans students to dress, within existing school rules, according to their self-identified gender and to be called by a name or pronoun that matches their identity. Under the plan’s revisions, which will be presented for approval later next month, teachers are advised to cut down on sex-segregated activities, and trans students are permitted to use washrooms or change rooms that match their gender identity. The VSB says decisions around gender-separated facilities will be assessed on a case-by-case basis. The proposal doesn’t go as far as a recent move by the Vancouver Park Board to create gender neutral washrooms.” (Source: CBC Online)
What are your thoughts? Meeting of the Minds purpose is to provide a safe place for everyone to gather and have astute and informative discussions while being able to share and critique each other’s beliefs and opinions. Our topic this month is on LGBTIQ: Gender Neutrality in Public Schools. We hope you can join us for this unique discussion! – Jonathan and Pat
Registration is $5. Payment Options: $5 online or $10 at the door. Cash bar is available to purchase beverages.