by Cora Davidson Read in French As we head into 2022, we can agree that our understanding of concepts such as sexual orientation and gender identity has grown substantially, including its’ nature as a spectrum and the multitude of realities and experiences lived by LGBTQ+ individuals. However, when we make mention of “biological sex” and its’ influence on the way it contributes to being assigned to a binary gender (female or male), many still tend to believe sex only encompasses female and male. From a scientific and anthropologic standpoint, this is far from the truth. The notions we learned of

by Alice Gauntley If you’re a young person who has done any kind of activism on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), you’ve probably had people ask you what that’s like. Maybe you even have some stories ready–funny stories or inspiring stories. I know I do. But I know there are other stories I didn’t always know how to tell, because just thinking about them made me a little embarrassed. I’m talking about times when I realized that, despite all my passion and engagement in SRHR activism, there were still things I just didn’t know. Like the time I

by Fae Johnstone ” We condemn, in the strongest possible terms, the horrendous attack on transgender children and youth by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and the Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott “ – Fae Johnstone, Executive Director of Wisdom2Action Gender-Affirming Healthcare is not child abuse; it is in fact life-saving care. Restricting transgender children and youth’s access to gender-affirming care, and threatening parents and other adults who support trans children and youth accessing gender-affirming health, are reprehensible, politically motivated, and hateful acts that fly in the face of human rights and medical best practice. Governor Abbot and Attorney General Paxton

by Rayan Saied When we aim to tackle anti-Black racism in Canada, bringing to the forefront the realities of systemically ingrained and often subtle oppression so that it can be addressed is an important foundational step. Thanks to funding from our partners Frayme, and working alongside the Delmore “Buddy” Daye Learning Institute, Wisdom2 Action has taken part in this work with the Anti-Black Racism Project. The Anti-Black Racism Project aimed to understand and address the ways that systemic anti-Black racism impacts Black and African youth accessing social services (healthcare, education, justice system & recreation) across Nova Scotia. With the report

A Call to Action for Canadian School Boards: Ambivalence, Silence and Inaction on 2SLGBTQ+ Inclusion is No Longer Tolerable by Fae Johnstone Despite progress over the past two decades, 2SLGBTQ+ students continue to face discrimination and inequality in our schools. In 2021, Egale Canada, Canada’s leading organization for 2SLGBTQI people and issues, released the results of their second climate survey on homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia in Canadian schools. Many of us, as adults, and/or as former 2SLGBTQ+ students ourselves, imagine and hope that our schools are substantially safer for 2SLGBTQ+ students than they used to be. Egale found that that

by Dennis L. Stuebing, Ph.D. Every year at this time, as we celebrate National Child Day, we are reminded that Canada is party to the United Nations (UN) most widely ratified international human rights instrument, the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).  November 20th is set aside to acknowledge Canada’s commitment to children’s rights because both the CRC and the Declaration of the Rights of the Child were adopted by the UN on 20 November, albeit thirty years apart in 1989 and 1959 respectively. Over those thirty years, children’s rights shifted from moral acknowledgement to legal obligation that