Transgender People and Education

Supporting Transgender Inclusion and Gender Diversity in Schools: A Critical Policy Analysis

“…Our purpose is to generate knowledge and understanding about how to best support trans and non-binary youth in schools by undertaking a critical policy analysis that addresses the limits of accommodation and the necessity of embracing gender democratization through pedagogical and curricular intervention (Youth Gender Action Project, 2009;Cumming-Potvin, 2016, 2019;Smith and Payne, 2016;Frohard-Dourlent, 2018;Luecke, 2018). Hence, our study contributes to an emerging body of trans-focused scholarship that is concerned to address gender diversity and transgender inclusion in the education system (Greytak et al, 2009;Ryan et al, 2013;Millei and Cliff, 2014;Payne and Smith, 2014;Frohard-Dourlent, 2016; Bartholomaeus and Riggs, 2017;Ullman, 2017;Goodrich and Barnard, 2018;Leonardi and Staley, 2018;Sinclair and Gilbert, 2018;Slater et al, 2018;Carlile, 2019;Kjaran, 2019;. Firstly, we outline our approach to critical policy analysis and explicate a trans-informed framework for understanding our approach to addressing gender diversity in the education system more broadly before examining the particular school board policies in question.…”

Transgender and gender expansive education research, policy and practice: reflecting on epistemological and ontological possibilities of bodily becoming

“…field which addresses how questions of trans informed gender justice are being understood, grappled with and enacted (Bartholomaeus and Riggs 2017;Forhard-Dourlent 2018;Human Rights Campaign and Gender Spectrum 2014;Ingrey 2012;Jones 2016;Martino and Cumming-Potvin 2017;Mayo 2017;Meyer and Leonardi 2018;Robinson et al 2014;Schindel 2008;Sinclair and Gilbert 2018;Smith and Payne 2016;Stiegler 2016;Ullman 2017). However, while acknowledging the necessity of the space that we have opened up for generating trans informed knowledge generation and insights into the enactment of gender democratization at both the policy and practice level, we are conscious of the limits of our efforts.…”

Thriving or Surviving? Raising Our Ambition for Trans Children in Primary and Secondary Schools

“…These research questions are timely for a UK audience, as schools move toward LGBT inclusive primary school Relationships Education (Department of Education, 2019). These research questions are also timely globally, in a period where trans inclusive education is under threat in countries across the world, from anti trans legislation targeting trans children in the US, through to toxic political and media driven debates on trans inclusive education in Australia, Canada and beyond (Bartholomaeus and Riggs, 2017a). Part one of the research involved an extensive review of global literature on trans children in education.…”