Education News | Page 15 overly concerned , this link is clear to anybody who spends a large amount of time engaging in these spaces .
Until educators and administrators have a significant grasp of transfeminist theory and trans studies in education , we can ' t hope to overcome this challenge . Trans girls in schools across Canada and the U . S . are being unfairly targeted and made into a bogeyman that transphobic and " gender critical " activists are using to further antitrans perspectives .
Allyship : How can teachers , professors , and administrators better support 2SLGBQT + students ?
j wallace skelton : Create a safe environment for all your students . Don ' t allow homophobia , transphobia , or gender policing . Ensure all students have access to language , information , history about 2SLGBTQA + people . Acknowledge that homophobia and transphobia are tools of colonialism . Ensure that students have a safe and confidential way to share their name and pronoun with you . Ensure that you always use their name and pronouns , that other faculty do , and that if you have a substitute teacher , they get the right information . Openly talk and teach about 2SLGBTQA + people , cultures , communities and our lives .
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Listen . Your students may be more familiar with 2SLGBTQA + people and cultures , and you may have a lot to learn from them . Find your own co-conspirators , people who will support you in this work . Build your own network of allies . Know that this is part of the work of equity and justice , and that this work is on going and intersectional .
James : Allies are necessary , needed , wanted , and appreciated , especially in a profession like teaching .
Jacq : I ' m actually not interested in " allyship " in education . I ' ve learned from Indigenous Action , about the idea of accomplices , over allies . 3 Cisgender , heterosexual teachers and professors need to be willing to put their bodies , jobs , incomes and safety on the line for queer and trans students and colleagues who are experiencing violence every day . This means queering your classroom by challenging the status quo and disrupting power dynamics in the classroom . This means teaching about queer and trans existence , no matter how young the children are . This means protecting a trans kid from abusive colleagues or their abusive family . This means recognizing that police in schools harms queer and trans kids , especially Indigenous queer and trans children , Black queer and trans children , and queer and trans