towards a trans pedagogy of solidarity: creating trauma-informed, anti-oppressive learning environments to support gender diverse learners
abstract
this master of education equips educators and school administrators who wish to better support
trans and gender diverse 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛
in the classroom and throughout the education system. this
work introduces the historical and ongoing legacies of institutionalized transphobia, cissexism,
compulsory heterosexuality, and binarism inherent within the colonial education system, which
not only impedes the learning of trans and gender diverse 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛
, but also contributes
significantly to the discrimination and suicidality that they face on a daily basis. my literature
review, as one piece of this portfolio, surveys contemporary gender identity and inclusion
policies, contextualized by recent government attacks against such curriculum, in order to
highlight the ongoing youth activism advocating for sexual and gender justice within the school
system. the main task of this portfolio was to create two workshops that can be easily tailored
for any educator who wishes to engage with the topic of gender as a social, political, and
contextual project, as well as a deeply personal experience requiring self-reflection and safer
conditions within which to consider its functionality in one’s life. with the goal of serving as a
toolkit, this portfolio offers up a theoretical paradigm in which an anti-colonial, anti-fascist trans
pedagogy can be used to teach critical gender studies during times of rising bigotry against
oppressed peoples, trans people among them.