The advocacy I do is largely centered around trans rights. Below you’ll find articles and workshops I’ve produced.
Articles
For a complete list of articles in chronological order, see this page.
Trans History
Free Speech
- Christie Blatchford and Freedom of Speech
- Cancel Culture
- Free Speech on Campus
- Debates are not neutral
- Free Speech
- The Iceberg
Bad Journalism
- Transphobia in the National Post
- Christie Blatchford and Freedom of Speech
- The writings of Barbara Kay
- Anatomy of a Transphobic Article
- The media needs to contextualize prejudice
- The Canadian media’s targeted harassment of queer and trans individuals
- Comically uninformed books about trans people
- Beyond the Baseline
Bad Science
- Comically uninformed books about trans people
- List of Anti-Trans Scientific-Sounding Evidence
- How bogus science was used to ban trans women
- Follow-up: Blood Ban Apology
- International Chess Federation Bans Trans Women
Lawmaking
Ending the Ban on GSAs (2011 – 2012)
- Homophobia in an Ontario Catholic School Board
- Ottawa Catholic School Board: Homophobia with better PR
- Challenging the Ottawa Catholic School Board
- Gay-Straight Alliances Update
- Calling a spade a spade.
- When prejudice wins
- Response from my MPP on GSAs
- Victory?
- One step forward, one step back
- The Many Hands in the Pot of Ontario Schools
- Update on the Gay-Straight Alliance ban
- Accepting Schools Act (Second Reading)
- Accepting Schools Act (Continued)
- Bill 13 & 14 Public Hearings in Ottawa
- A Day of Public Hearings
- Bill 13 Approaching Final Vote
- Bill 13 Passes
- What’s in a name?
Adding Gender Expression & Gender Identity to Human Rights Act (2010 – 2015)
- Trans Day of Remembrance
- Bill C-279
- Bill C-279 & Senate Meeting
- How An Anti-Discrimination Bill Came to Legalize Discrimination
- When The Bigots Won
Adding Gender Expression & Gender Identity to Human Rights Act (2016 – 2017)
- Bill C-16
- Bill C-16 Moves on to Senate
- The Opposition to Bill C-16
- Bill C-16 in the Senate
- Lightning Rods
- Bill C-16 Passes
- A Month After Bill C-16
Banning Conversion Therapy (2020 – 2021)
Misc
- Homophobia and transphobia is why PC’s repealed sex ed
- Conservatives are rewriting history instead of facing it
- More troll than threat
- Anti-LGBTQ+ Legislation & What You Can Do
Local Homophobia & Transphobia
- Nationalist groups and the intimidation of gender and sexual minorities in Canada
- Anti-trans and anti-gay rallies across Canada, deconstructed
- What does maintaining perspective mean in this climate?
- Anti-trans mob in Ottawa
- “You’ve Been Warned”
- Witnessing Life Be Stolen From The Wonderful
- Who is posting anti-trans stickers around Ottawa?
- Trans rights posters vandalized
- A wave of anti-trans orgs
- Free Speech
- Map of transphobic harassment in Ottawa-Gatineau
- Why I march
- Lightning Rods
- Of Hate and Monsters
- Casual Violence
- Capital Pride & Prejudice
- The Iceberg
- Conservatives in Parliament: A Case Study with Bill C-6
- Safe(r) cities for trans folks
- New branding for old tactics
- Ottawa’s Covid Party
- Cultural templates
- The radicalization of an Ottawa teacher
- TDoR 2022
- International Chess Federation Bans Trans Women
- Canadians less accepting of gender and sexual minorities: poll
Faith-Related
- Away from Catholicism
- Anglican Church of Canada votes against recognizing same-sex marriage at General Synod
- Slam Sermon: Sex Work
- Sex Work and the Church
Miscellaneous Writings
- The anti-trans unicorn
- Saying it with a smile
- Making Peace with Queer Anger
- Never Us, Always Others
- Change requires vulnerability
- Mechanisms for Conclusions
- Lessons in advocacy
- Transphobes in Canada are Connected
- Transition, Six Years Later.
- Some Good News
- Is it real support?
- Transphobia and the intelligence apparatus of the right
- It’s terrorism.
Workshops
These are the slides from workshops I’ve given. My focus is on gender diversity and making programming accessible to more audiences.
Serving Gender Diverse People & Safety (in 2023)
A workshop I gave on who is trying to disrupt the work of serving gender diverse people, and how to counter them.
Trans Day of Remembrance 2022
Another year, another presentation catered to cis audiences.
Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws & What You Can Do
Looks at a series of anti-LGBTQ+ laws and measures introduced in the United States by breaking down three of them.
Trans Day of Remembrance 2020
A brief overview of the Trans Day of Remembrance, done for St. Alban’s church in Ottawa. It gives context for why the day still matters, using data from Ontario to do so.
Transmisogyny 101 (2018)
Goes over why trans women, and transfeminine individuals, are targeted more for transphobia. This was put together for queer, trans, and rainbow family youth at Project Acorn.
A Gentle Intro to Coding
Gives an introduction to programming for people who have never done it before. The motive here is to empower people by building confidence, achieved by going at a slower pace than most other introductory courses.
More info. Slides for first week. Slides for second week.
Trans 101 for Coders
Discusses how to make tech workplaces more welcoming of trans and gender diverse individuals. Talks about how to make software design accessible to trans and gender diverse individuals. Target audience are cis software developers.
Not Passing
Discusses obstacles that non-passing people face and how gender conformity is pushed from the outside. Target audience are trans and gender variant people.
Trans 101 for the Workplace
Provides a base level introduction to vocabulary around trans people, dispelling misconceptions, and discussing how discrimination is normalized. Target audience are cisgender individuals in management or leadership positions.
Trans Narrative & Involuntary Therapy
Dispel myths I encountered time and time again in the policy / counseling sphere around trans people and to talk about how these myths translated into barriers that hurt trans people. Target audience are cisgender counselors, therapists, and medical professionals.
Transmisogyny 101 (2015)
Discusses how and why transfeminine individuals are disproportionately marginalized when compared to the trans and gender variant population as a whole. Target audience are students & young adults.
