Thank you, Chair.
Thank you all for being here.
This is the last meeting with witnesses we're having on this study. We've heard quite a number of witnesses and we've heard from a lot of people from a great many different intersectionalities and heard of the kinds of issues, concerns and problems they've had and continue to have in trying to live in a predominantly gender binary and heteronormative world.
I'm going to take a risk here and try to abstract out of all this testimony what I see as a common theme. The common theme, the fundamental problem I'm seeing here, is a problem of acceptance: both by the individuals themselves sometimes, as well as the society in which we live. I think that leads to stress, stigma, fear, discrimination and all those sorts of things. I believe you've all touched on this as well.
It stems from a lack of awareness and a lack of understanding and education. Many of you have spoken about the need for training for different professionals and so forth. Could you weigh in with your thoughts on whether this really is a fundamental problem that we can address out of this study.
Ms. Daley, please start.