Health committee  Definitely, we need to see those funding dollars.

Health committee  I think that speaks to what I was saying before about the federal government's role in normalizing these conversations. If the federal government had names and pronouns every time, that would lead a lot more people to learn about that and to start doing that as well.

Health committee  At YouthCO, as an employer, we've worked really hard to reduce the number of times we've been collecting that information. We've actually found that we don't need to collect it for most of the work we do as an employer, although my experience as an employee in other places is tha

Health committee  There are two-spirit people in Canada who have been advocating for two-spirit folks to be included in the inquiry around missing and murdered indigenous women, because we know that a lot of that is related to gender, and two-spirit folks have their gender policed all the time by

Health committee  One thing that I would add, if possible, is that the federal government's role is really in creating policies that normalize the existence of those of us who are queer and trans and in representing us in things like the census and other federally funded pieces, and by normalizing

Health committee  I would defer to folks in the room who hold that identity, unless you'd like me to go first.

Health committee  Yes, that's one of the things I had to take out of my 10-minute statement, so I'm glad that's already been presented. I think the main reason is that health care providers make assumptions about who does and does not need contraception based on how people present their gender an

Health committee  That's a great question. I think the answer is that we don't have the best data to answer that question in a Canadian context. We know from the data more broadly that trans women and trans women of colour are disproportionately affected by both HIV and hep C. But we don't have C

Health committee  Mr. Chair and members of the standing committee, my name is Sarah Chown. I am a settler on the unceded ancestral lands of the Coast Salish peoples, and I use the pronouns she and her. Since 2015, I have worked at YouthCO, a youth-led agency that addresses the impacts of HIV and