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Gender-affirming Care in Canada: Anti-Oppressive Practice for and with Trans People
From: Doing Anti-Oppressive Social Work
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This chapter examines gender-affirming care in Canada and describes anti-oppressive social work for and with trans people. This reading discusses standardized clinical assessments as the determinant for trans and non-binary individuals being deemed eligible for gender-affirming care, in the context of anti-oppressive social work practice.
Contributors
Kinnon R. MacKinnon
Donna Baines is the director and a professor in the School of Social Work at the University of British Columbia. She is editor of Doing Anti-Oppressive Practice, co-editor (with Stephen McBride) of Orchestrating Austerity and co-author of Case Critical. Her research and teaching interests include anti-oppressive theory and practice, paid and unpaid care work and social justice change.
Daniel Grace
Bindi Bennett is a Gamilaraay cisgender mother, researcher and social worker. She is an associate professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Bond University. She has over twenty years’ practice experience in the fields of Aboriginal social work, child and adolescent mental health, schools and health.
Stella L. Ng
Natalie Clark’s practice, research and activism is informed and mobilized through her interconnected identities including her Settler ancestry and her Secwepemc and Métis kinship – as grandmother, mother, auntie and community member. Natalie is a Full Professor in the School of Social Work and Human Service at Thompson Rivers University, Co-Chair of the Gender Equity committee, and continues to practice as a violence counsellor and girls group facilitator with children, youth and families.
