Where are the trans teen kids who share my ethnic background? It's a question I've been asking and frankly so have my readers for a while.One of my readers recently sent me a story about 10 year old Tracey Wilson, who lives in British Columbia with her parents.
While I was happy to read about her transition and her loving parents supporting it, the part of the story I'm not happy about is that the seeds of the transphobia that Dr. Paul McHugh sowed in the Vatican back in 2003 continue to bear poisonous transphobic fruit at the flock level.
Tracey is now living as a girl full time. When she wanted to do so at her semi-private Catholic school as well and her parents Michelle and Garfield informed Sacred Heart of Tracey's wish, the school said no. They offered to let her use the disabled bathroom, but not the girl's one and refused to authorize a name change or allow Tracey to wear the girls school uniform claiming they didn't have a policy for it.
The great thing about living in Canada besides universal health care and Timmy's is that they have strong human rights protection enshrined in their Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Tracey's parents have filed a human rights complaint with the BC Human Rights Tribunal against the Independent Catholic Schools of Vancouver.
And yes BC, it's past time for you to join the other four provinces and the Northwest Territories in your home and native land that protect the human rights of trans citizens of your province.
Tracey's human rights complaint will be heard in the spring, and I'll definitely be keeping an eye on it along with everyone else in Trans World and the African Diaspora
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