Gender Identity: Conference and Students

gender identity: The goal of the provincial conference is to offer support for Alberta students and teachers in creating and maintaining GSAs for LGBTQ students and supporters, according to CBC. Attendance has doubled year-over-year since the conference began five years ago, said Kris Wells, one of the organizers and the Faculty Director of the Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services at the University of Alberta. Around 500 students and staff participated in the Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Alliance Conference at Eastglen High School on Saturday. Were seeing an incredible movement happen across this province where young people want to learn how to start gay-straight alliances, they want to learn how to sustain them, they want to learn to the tools to make them strong and vibrant and safe spaces for everyone in their school community, Wells said. At school sometimes I can get down because of homophobia or misogyny or racism, but by coming to a conference like this, theyre so beneficial because now I have more motivation and drive to help people. Education minister vows to aggressively pursue schools that dont follow LGBTQ policies Student and activist Cameron Litowski said participating in the conference gave him strength. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.