Shoppers Drugmart is at it again, virtual signalling gender inclusivity with ads celebrating gender divergence, while failing to train front line staff to serve said gender minorities. I do love the ads featuring nonbinary model Myles Sexton, and it is a fact that many Queer people and cis men I know looking for makeup for […]
Tag: misgendering
How do you solve a problem like misgendering?
To illustrate the daily erasure trans folx face in a world privileging cisgender norms, I offer my experience at the supposedly trans-positive Compass Community Clinic. Trans people are notoriously underserviced in healthcare care, with known disparities in trans and gender minorities’ ability to access healthcare (Scheim et al., 2017). Perceived discrimination in healthcare settings contributes […]
ETFO: Transphobia is in the eye of the beholder
The Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario (ETFO) needs Jesus; more specifically, they need to heed the savior’s story concerning kicking up dust about the speck in the other person’s eye, all the while having a plank in your own (Matthew 7:3-5). I had a come to Jesus moment when ETFO was supposedly addressing workplace transphobia, […]
Bad Pride Vibes with Shopper’s Drug Mart
I am regularly misgendered at Shopper’s Drug Mart, but I recently posted a particularity bad experience… I often resort to the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal (HRTO) as a way of being an activist and advancing gender minority rights. I recently spoke about this on The Experimantal Leader Podcast. Unfortunately, I had to take Shopper’s to […]