Tools & resources

This section contains tools and resources developed as part of research projects conducted by the CRC ReParE Chair or in collaboration with its partners.

Training

Duration: 3 hours
Pace: At your own pace

Trans•diversity 1: Understanding and respecting transdiversity through education

(Available only in French)

Trans•diversité is a free online training course that focuses on gender identity, trans identity and best practices for supporting trans people, whether in higher education or in everyday life.

Target audience

This training is designed to inform and equip anyone, whether they are a parent, friend, employee, or teacher of a trans person, to better support and interact with them, in educational settings or elsewhere.

Course content

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The course consists of three modules, each requiring approximately one hour of study:

Module 1: Basic Concepts
This first module will familiarise you with the basic concepts surrounding gender identity and the various issues that trans people may encounter, in order to better understand their realities and experiences.

Module 2: Educational Settings
This module aims to help you interact better with transgender people, accompany them and support them with respect and confidentiality in different situations, whether they are students or employees of a higher education institution.

Module 3: Support from peers and loved ones
In this final module, you will learn best practices for supporting a transgender person, particularly when that person is a friend, classmate, or family member. It will equip you to better support a transgender person in their coming out and in their daily life, and to better respect their autonomy as an individual.

Final exam
A certificate is offered free of charge at the end of the three modules.

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Duration: 5 hours
Pace: At your own pace

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Trans•diversity 2: health and social services

(Available only in French)

Trans·diversity 2: Health and Social Services is a free online training course designed to educate learners about best practices for better meeting the needs of trans and non-binary individuals in the health and social services sector, thereby contributing to the professional development of relevant professionals.

Target audience

This training course is the first French-language online resource on the subject aimed at students in the health and social services fields, as well as practising professionals in health and social services institutions.

Course content

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This course consists of three modules totalling approximately 5 hours of varied activities:

Module 1: Basic Concepts
This first module will familiarise you with the basic concepts surrounding gender identity and the various issues that trans and non-binary people may encounter, in order to better understand their realities and experiences.

Module 2: Adapting practices and structures in healthcare and social setting
This module will give you a better understanding of the experiences of trans and non-binary people as they try to access healthcare or social services, the legal context surrounding this access, and the impact that inadequate structures and services have on them. It also aims to equip learners, regardless of their role in the healthcare and social services sector, who wish to review their practices and those of their organisation with the goal of providing a more inclusive and respectful care environment for everyone, including trans and non-binary individuals.

Module 3: Professional intervention with trans and non-binary individuals
This final module aims to equip health and social services professionals with the tools they need to provide more professional and effective support to trans and non-binary individuals, whether through specific interventions to help them affirm their gender identity or more general interventions involving them or their environment.

Final exam
The final exam summarises the course content in 20 automatically marked questions. A score of 70% or higher on the final exam makes you eligible to receive a certificate free of charge.

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Duration: 3 hours
Pace: At your own pace

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Trans·diversity 3: Primary and secondary education

(Available only in French)

Trans·diversity 3: Primary and Secondary Education is a free online training course designed to raise awareness among learners about best practices for better meeting the needs of trans and non-binary students in education, thereby contributing to the development of teaching staff skills.

Target audience

This training programme is the first entirely free, online, self-directed French-language resource developed specifically for primary and secondary schools. It is intended for current and future teaching staff, as well as professionals working in these environments.

Course content

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This course consists of two modules totalling approximately 3 hours of varied activities:

Module 1: Understanding gender identity and developmental trajectories
This first module will familiarise you with the basic concepts surrounding gender identity and the various issues that trans and non-binary students may encounter, in order to better understand their realities and experiences.

Module 2: Why inclusive school?
This module will give you a better understanding of what inclusive schooling is, its legal context, and best practices for supporting trans and non-binary students. It also aims to equip learners who wish to review their practices in order to provide a more inclusive and respectful learning environment for everyone, including trans and non-binary students.

Final exam
The final exam summarises the course content in 20 automatically marked questions. A score of 70% or higher on the final exam makes you eligible to receive a certificate free of charge.

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Guides

Hi Sam: teaching youth throught play

Funded by the Québec Ministry of Justice (ministère de la Justice du Québec), the pilot project Hi Sam: Sensitizing Youth Through Play aims to help teachers who have to address issues surrounding gender identity, roles, stereotypes, and norms in elementary schools. More specifically, it consists of a comprehensive pedagogical guide and three short videos that accompany the educational tool Sam and facilitate the creation of a safer space for discussion on the journeys of trans and gender creative children and youth.

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Online resources

Website: Detrans Support

This resource aims to provide up-to-date, data-driven information about detransition/retransition. This information was designed to educate the general public, support people who are detransitioning, and to provide a resource for care providers, family, and loved ones of those who are detransitioning. Information provided on this website was developed through on-going consultation with detrans, transgender, and nonbinary people, their care providers, and by compiling the results from two research studies—The Detrans Discourses study and The Re/DeTrans Canada study. Both of these studies were funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and were designed to qualitatively explore experiences of detransition/retransition.

https://detransinfo.com/

Website: Whether or not to preserve one's fertility

This tool to support decision-making about fertility preservation is intended for young trans, binary and non-binary people who have begun medical transition (or wish to do so), as well as their parent(s).

https://arbredecision.ca