Ki Gross of Woke Kindergarten, who presented for the Lower School during our January In-Service day, is on the panel. Second grade teacher Azureé Harrison suggests attending the April 1 event, "Intersectionality and Abolitionist Teaching: Centering Queer Voices," hosted by the Abolitionist Teaching Network.
TRANSGENDER DAY OF VISIBILITY 2021 FREE
Third grade teacher and High School running coach Anthony Belber said, “As thrilled as I am to know a handful of my former students and High School runners have transitioned after graduation, our work at GDS is not finished when it comes to creating an environment in which trans students feel safe and comfortable expressing themselves fully and being free to be who they are inside." Learn. High School performing arts chair Laura Rosberg, with permission, said, “I'm proud of my advisee, Elliot ," who identifies as trans and is co-head of the High School Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA). Support local DC-area organizations that support trans community members and families, including Casa Ruby, DC Area Transmasculine Society (DCATS), SMYAL, or Safe Space NOVA.īe visible in your support, like the faculty and staff members and students featured in this post. Spread awareness and be vocal on social media and in your workplace. Express your abhorrence of bigotry by speaking up and writing in opposition of trans-oppressive legislation and policies. Use your voice, your platform, and your network to communicate your support for transgender rights, the trans community, and transgender people, particularly trans youth and Black trans women, who are most often and egregiously targeted. Gender-affirming healthcare specifically is crucial to the transgender community and is something that I do not believe I would be where I am today without.” Show up and advocate. While I do not live in these states, and they would not affect me directly, any attack to a transgender person is an attack against me. “These laws create great harm to the transgender community.
Alabama’s HB1/SB10 makes it a felony to provide gender-affirming care for trans youth and HB 391 bans trans women and girls from sports and polices all athletes' bodies in womens' sports. I just recently read that passed the bill denying gender affirming care to transgender youth.
SB 354 bans trans women and girls who are trans from sports and polices all athletes bodies in womens' sports. Lower School teacher Arden Kinnamont said, “Arkansas’s HB 1570 bans healthcare for trans youth and insurance coverage for all trans people. Our GDS alum Schuyler Bailer ’14 has been working on this visit. New bills targeting trans youth have been proposed, specifically in Arkansas and Alabama. Join us for Transgender Day of Visibility: Learn about Current State and Federal Legislation Information. As a school, we are particularly concerned for transgender youth, whose rights have been routinely targeted and who often don’t have a vote or a voice to advocate for themselves. This year has seen both unprecedented progress for the trans community AND unprecedented attacks on-and attempts to undermine-the safety, visibility, and humanity of transgender people. Today is Transgender Day of Visibility and as a school committed to honoring the integrity and worth of each individual within a diverse and ever-growing community, we are speaking up, with unified voices from throughout our faculty/staff community, to ask you to join us in showing up through some of the action items listed below.