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The current policies for gender expression on BC government-issued ID are an example o f a decade long effort in behavioural\, intellectual and social change mana gement. Join SPPGA Adjunct Professor Natasha Thambirajah\, Dr. Daniel L Met zger\, and Parliamentary Secretary for Gender Equity Grace Lore for an insi de view on the evidence-based\, change management\, and stakeholder engagem ent practices used to gradually shift the BC health sector and provincial g overnment towards recognizing the criticality of recognizing rights of peop le who are transgender or gender non-conforming to express their gender ide ntity with minimal or no state or medical intervention.
This virtual talk will focus on the types of questions that we asked ourselves throughou t the process\, post implementation including reflections on what different questions could have been included. Learn more about how theory was transl ated into practice during the process of modernizing gender expression on g overnment-issued ID and what was learned during the process.
Moderator: Dr . Helina Jolly\, Research Associate at Interdisciplinary Biodiversity S olutions\, UBC
Panelists:
- Natasha Thambirajah\, Adju nct Professor\, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs\, UBC
- Dr . Daniel L Metzger\, MD\, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics\, UBC and Pediat ric Endocrinologist\, Endocrinology & Diabetes Unit\, BC Children’s Hospita l
- Grace Lore\, Parliamentary Secretary for Gender Equity\, Province of BC
Bios:
Natasha Tha
mbirajah is Adjunct Professor and SPPGA Practitioner Fellow\, as p
art of the 2022 SPPGA Practitioner Fellowship at UBC’s School of Public Pol
icy and Global Affairs. Natasha is a third-generation public servant and ha
s worked for the Province of BC since 2006. Over the past 15 years\, she ha
s led nationally recognized examples of transformative\, citizen-centred pu
blic policy\, including the prize-winning BC Services Card and the moderniz
ation of gender identity expression on government issued identification.
Dr. Da niel Metzger is a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the Universi ty of British Columbia\, and a Pediatric Endocrinologist working in the End ocrinology & Diabetes Unit at BC Children’s Hospital.
Dr. Metzger and his colleagues—in collaboration with hospital- and community-based mental health professionals—began seeing transgender kids in 1998\, and they have now seen about 700 trans and gender-non-conforming children and youth in th e BCCH Gender Clinic\, one of the busiest in Canada.
Grace
Lore is Parliamentary Secretary for Gender Equity. Grace Lore was
elected as the MLA for Victoria-Beacon Hill in 2020.
She has been a dedicated anti-violence advocate\, university instructor and community orga nizer.
Before the election\, she sat on the Fernwood\, North Park\, a nd Quadra Village Neighbourhood Planning Group. She was on the national adv isory panel for the Canadian Women’s Foundation and an Affordable Fernwood organizer. She has worked closely with the Victoria Sexual Assault Centre a nd other anti-violence organizations to support inclusive\, accessible\, an d survivor centred sexual assault response.
At the University of Vict oria\, she taught Canadian politics\, gender and politics\, and research me thods. Her research has focused on social media harassment and online viole nce.
Grace resides in Victoria with her partner and two young childre n.
Moderator’s Bio:
Helina Jolly has a PhD from the Institute for Resources Environment and Sustainabili ty. She worked with Indigenous communities in South Asia. She is a Natgeo e xplorer and Lead\, The Collective for Gender+ in Research\, Office for Regi onal and International Community Engagement\, UBC. Currently she is a Resea rch Associate at Interdisciplinary Biodiversity Solutions.
Ho sted by: The Collective for Gender+ in Research based at The O ffice of Regional and International Community Engagement (ORICE) at the Sch ool of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA)\, University of British Col umbia