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As a community of educators, researchers, staff and students, we affirm our support and love for our transgender and gender non-binary students, friends, colleagues, and family members.
We want to state this as clearly and simply as possible: the broad scientific consensus is that gender is not binary. We live in a world with transgender people, and we always have. Governments and others assign a legal sex category at birth, usually based on anatomical characteristics; but this does not change the reality of a spectrum of gender identities. There is simply no other conclusion about the nature of sex and gender that is morally or scientifically valid.
Spreading misinformation about transgender and gender non-binary people is harmful, and silence on this matter is irresponsible. We must not tacitly condone lies. Accordingly, we use this moment to strongly, explicitly, and publicly stand with transgender and gender non-binary people. In doing so, we note that there is no justification for questioning the word of trans people about their own identities. We also rely on scientific and ethical truths to combat abhorrent attempts at their erasure, and we uphold their inalienable human dignity and rights to equal protection under the law. We are a community of more than just research and words. Today we reaffirm our commitment to the work of creating a more inclusive community for members of the transgender and gender non-binary community. We see you. We recognize you. We support you.
As we stand with transgender and gender non-binary people in fighting hate and erasure in our schools, universities, and society, we support research, service, and practice in our own school and throughout the K-12 and higher education systems. We will continue to work with transgender and gender non-binary students and colleagues in ensuring that they feel welcome and supported in the community. This includes providing safer physical facilities and affirming learning environments. This also involves deep reflection and active allyship from our cisgender colleagues and community members.
Our School of Education at the University of Colorado has stood alongside our transgender and gender non-binary students and colleagues more intentionally over the past several years. Our colleagues at A Queer Endeavor, a center located in our school, have worked with thousands of educators and school and district leaders in our local area, as well as across the country. In addition, they have worked closely with our teacher education faculty and staff, as well as with colleagues across our school, to infuse understandings of gender identity into each of our courses. At the same time, moments like the one we are in now remind us of just how much work we still have to do in our school and across our country.
At a time when many of us feel hopeless and dispirited in the face of hatred and misunderstanding, it is critical that we take action together.
Here are a few ways that you can join us in fighting against trans erasure by increasing support and visibility of trans people in particular.
- Listen to, value, and respect the lived experiences of trans people
- Support members of the transgender community. Read more
- Make sure that your school, campus, or organization provides people with the opportunity to name their gender pronouns and to be honored by their chosen names. CU Boulder provides students the right to self-determine the gender pronouns and names that are used on course rosters and similar university records.
- If you are in a leadership position at your school, district, or university, be proactive. Support your staff and faculty to understand the complex, lived realities of LGBTQ students, and of trans students in particular, and to take action to create spaces that are ready for, and not merely reactive to, these students.
- Donate time or money to projects and programs that support transgender and nonbinary communities, such as A Queer Endeavor, OutBoulder, One Colorado, the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, Gender Spectrum, Trans Educators Network, and the Transgender Law Center.
- Visibly affirm your stance as an active ally who stands with and supports transgender and nonbinary people via mechanisms such as social media badges, displays in your office/classroom, or pins/ribbons on your jacket or bag.
- Read and share information and resources about the science of and research on sex and gender such as those included below.
Resources
- Airton, L. (2018) Gender: Your Guide. Simon and Schuster
- Biegel, Stuart. (2018) The Right to Be Out: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Americas Public Schools. Law & Society Review.
- Fausto-Sterling, A. (2000) Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality. Basic Books.
- Editors (2017) The New Science of Sex and Gender. Scientific American.
- Hembree, et al (2017) Endocrine Treatment of Gender-Dysphoric/Gender-Incongruent Persons: An Endocrine Society* Clinical Practice Guideline.The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Volume 102, Issue 11, 1 November 2017, Pages 3869–3903, https://doi.org/10.1210/jc.2017-01658
- Leonardi, B. & Staley, S. (2015). Affirm gender and sexual diversity within the school community. Phi Delta Kappan, 97(3), 69-73.
- Meier, C. & Harris, J. (n.d.) Fact Sheet: Gender Diversity and Transgender Identity in Children. American Psychological Association.
- Meyer, E. (2010) Gender and Sexual Diversity in Schools. Springer: New York.
- Meyer, E. & Pullen-Sansfacon (eds. (2018) Supporting Transgender and Gender Creative Youth: Schools, Families, and Communities in Action, revised edition. Peter Lang: New York
- Miller (2017) AMA takes several actions supporting transgender patients. American Medical Association.
- Montanez, A. (2017) Beyond XX and XY. Scientific American.
- The Williams Institute. Transgender Issues. UCLA School of Law.
A collective statement and resources from A Queer Endeavor, the National Education Policy Center, CU Engage, and the faculty and staff of the CU Boulder School of Education.
