The TDOR ceremony this year, titled “#MoreThanAHashtag”, will take place this Friday, November 20 at 6 p.m (PST). The 24/7 helpline at 1-80 provides support for those experiencing grief, stress, and trauma.San Francisco, CA - The San Francisco trans community honors the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) with an online ceremony honoring those who have been lost due to anti-trans violence.
Staff and faculty members can access mental health resources and supports through the Employee & Family Assistance Program (EFAP). Counselling is also available through the U of T My Student Support Program (U of T My SSP) 24/7 by calling 1 (844) 451-9700. If you are a student who needs immediate support, please call the Health & Wellness Centre at (416) 978-8030 to speak with a counsellor. Sexual Violence Prevention & Support Centre: The Sexual Violence Prevention and Support Centre provides support to students, staff, and faculty at the University of Toronto who have been affected by sexual and gender-based violence.Ĭommunity Safety Office: Staff are available to provide support to students, staff, faculty, librarians, and community members.
The following resources and supports are also available to the U of T community: To learn more about resources available to the University community, please visit the websites of the Sexual & Gender Diversity Office and Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Offices at UTM and UTSC. I also encourage you to take part in the Trans Awareness Week programming from November 15 to 19, led by the Sexual & Gender Diversity Office in collaboration with a number of departments, groups, and organizations across the tri-campus.
I invite students, staff, faculty, and librarians to honour Trans Day of Remembrance by attending U of T’s Trans Day of Remembrance & Resilience virtual event at 1 pm on Friday, November 19, 2021. All of us in the U of T community have the right to feel accepted for “simply being ourselves.” What is more, we all have a responsibility to make belonging part of everyone’s experience of our campuses. The event More Than Pronouns: A Dialogue on Trans-Inclusion in the Workplace-recorded and available on the Sexual and Gender Diversity Office website-complements resources such as Your Journey: A Career Guide for Trans and Nonbinary Students, which aims to support trans and nonbinary students and recent alumni as they think about work and careers. In an ongoing tri-campus effort, our campus maps tool features information about inclusive washrooms on all campuses. Students, faculty, librarians, and staff can make name and/or gender changes in University records, and we are implementing additional changes to our identity management systems. On an institutional level, we continue to make our systems and spaces more inclusive to trans members of our community. The University of Toronto denounces transphobia, whether expressed as hate crimes, interpersonal discrimination, or structural barriers. The 2019 Trans PULSE Canada Survey highlighted the compounding impact of discrimination for respondents who identified as Black, Indigenous, and racialized: consistently, they reported higher rates of violence, assault, and harassment as well as more negative experiences within the Canadian legal system. Twenty percent of participants in the Ontario-based Trans PULSE Project (2006, 2009-10) reported transphobic assaults, with 34% reporting verbal threats and harassment. Thirty-five percent of trans and nonbinary youth respondents to the most recent Canadian Trans and Nonbinary Youth Health Survey (2019) reported being physically threatened or injured within the year. November 20 has become a day to remember and honour all trans and nonbinary individuals who, in the words of trans advocate Gwendolyn Ann Smith, have been “murdered for simply being themselves.”ĭata gathered from trans youth and adults confirms the prevalence of transphobic violence and harassment in Canada.
What began as a small vigil honouring Rita Hester, a transgender woman of colour brutally murdered in Boston, MA in 1998, is now an annual day of recognition observed in Canada, among other countries worldwide. For over two decades, Trans Day of Remembrance (TDoR) has been observed annually on November 20.
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