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This October, we're excited to share with you: our 2024 National Coming
Out Day campaign, legal advocacy updates, upcoming free webinars, and more. | | |
Egale Canada Launches 2024 National Coming Out Day Campaign With anti-2SLGBTQI hate on the rise in Canada, ensuring that young people feel safe and accepted this National Coming Out Day (October 11) is more important than ever. Egale Canada, with support from RBC, has launched our 2024 National Coming Out Day campaign: Coming Out Together. Coming Out Together is about encouraging adults to take the pledge to ‘come out’ as supportive, affirming and safe people in the lives of 2SLGBTQI youth.
For a young person,
coming out is often a task that requires an immense amount of bravery, vulnerability, and honesty. This is why adults making the effort to create safer spaces for the 2SLGBTQI young people in their lives is more important than ever.
We call on everyone to do three simple tasks:
→ Pledge to ‘Come Out’ as an affirming adult, which means taking concrete actions to foster safer spaces for 2SLGBTQI youth.
→ Attend a free webinar to gain skills for promoting environments where 2SLGBTQI youth can thrive.
→ Learn more by accessing free resources on the
coming out journey and how to support a 2SLGBTQI young person who just came out to you.
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| | Back in Court: Legal Battle to Protect Gender Diverse Young People in Saskatchewan Continues On September 23-24, the fight to protect gender diverse young people in Saskatchewan continued before Saskatchewan’s Court of Appeal.
The legislation passed by the Saskatchewan government continues to cause irreparable harm to gender diverse young people in
Saskatchewan. The government has put gender diverse young people in a lose-lose situation: either be forced to come out, or be misgendered and misnamed at school
We call on the government to rescind this harmful and regressive policy. Until it does, we will continue to use every tool at our disposal to fight.
Read the full statement here | | | | | Upcoming
Free Webinars Affirming Adults Across the Community
Explore the vital role that all adults across the community can take up in promoting environments where 2SLGBTQI youth can thrive.
Affirming Parents and Caregivers
Parents and caregivers will build the skills, confidence, and support networks needed to help their 2SLGBTQI youth thrive.
Draw the Line Against Transphobic Violence
Students, educators, administrators, and staff will learn to recognize harmful dynamics, and build skills for fostering cultures of consent, gender inclusion, and healthier relationships overall.
Visit egale.ca/workshops for webinar dates, to learn more and to register | | | | | | Egale Canada sounds the alarm for provinces with anti-trans policies in light of devastating new evidence
Egale Canada has released a statement calling on political leaders to abandon anti-trans policies and legislation in light of devastating new evidence. A new peer-reviewed report, published in Nature, confirms what 2SLGBTQI advocates and allies have been warning: anti-trans legislation in states in the US, such as restrictions on gender-affirming health care and discriminatory school policies, caused up to a 72% increase in
suicide attempts among transgender and nonbinary young people aged 13–24.
Read the full statement here | | | | | | International Work Spotlight: Egale Canada at the Organization of American States LGBTI+ Core Group Egale Canada's Executive Director traveled to Washington, D.C. to celebrate the handover of the Organization of American States LGBTI+ Core Group leadership from the United States to Canada and Uruguay.
We are pleased that the government of Canada will partner with Egale during this critical period of leadership within the OAS system. Egale is the only Canadian member of the OAS LGBTTTI&TS Coalition of the Americas and engages with civil society organizations throughout the region. | | |
| | Egale Explains: Common Myths and Misconceptions About Trans Youth Misinformation and disinformation feed many myths and misconceptions that people have
about trans and nonbinary youth. This new addition to the Egale Explains series debunks some of the biggest myths about trans and nonbinary youth.
Learn more and access the resource here
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| | | Join Egale’s Educator Network Want to stay up-to-date on new school resources? Join The Educator Network, – a quarterly eNewsletter where you will receive early access to tools, resources, workshop invitations, and more from Egale’s Inclusive Schools offerings.
Learn more and sign up here
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Leave a Legacy: Plan your Will with Egale and Willfora |
| | | It is officially Spooky Season and we know that creating a Will can be scary! Egale Canada is a proud partner of Willfora – an online Wills service, where creating a Will and ensuring you leave a lasting impact on the organizations you care about, isn't so spooky.
According to a recent study, 51% of Canadians do not have a final Will and testament in place, and only 35% of Canadians claim to have a Will that is up to date. That means more than half of Canadians are leaving their assets, estates, and their legacy to chance.
We hope that you’ll make 2SLGBTQI belonging and inclusion a part of your legacy. Over the next few weeks we will be sharing more about this process and about what leaving a charitable gift to
Egale could look like. Please check out Willfora or contact us to learn more. | | |
Egale Canada
120 Carlton Street, Suite 217 | Toronto, Ontario M5A 4K2
416-964-7887 | [email protected]Egale works to improve the lives of 2SLGBTQI people in Canada and to enhance the global
response to 2SLGBTQI issues. Egale achieves this by informing public policy, inspiring cultural change, and promoting human rights and inclusion through research, education and community engagement.
Our vision is a Canada, and ultimately a world, without homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, and all other forms of oppression so that every person can achieve their full potential, free from hatred and bias. | | | | |
