Catholic teachers support Ontar’s gay-straight alliance iative - The Globe and Mail

Contents:

• 'GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE' NAME FORC BATE ONTAR
• ALL ABOUT GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC
• GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC: MAKG ONTAR SCHOOLS SAFE AND INCLIVE
• 'GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC' GET GREEN LIGHT UNR ONTAR BILL
• CATHOLIC SCHOOLS BALANCE GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE CLUBS WH BELIEFS
• STUNTS ULD LL GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE A 'GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE' UNR NEW ONTAR LEGISLATN
• PREMIER FENDS 'GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE' CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
• ANTI-BULLY BILL TO ALLOW GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC
• 'MORE VAL NOW:' GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC GO VIRTUAL DURG RONAVIS PANMIC
• ANTI-BULLYG BILL PASS, CLEARG WAY FOR GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC ONTAR SCHOOLS
• CATHOLIC TEACHERS SUPPORT ONTAR’S GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE IATIVE

'GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE' NAME FORC BATE ONTAR

Participatg stunts may intify as two-spir, lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, qutng, tersex, asexual, pansexual, nonbary (2SLGBTQ+) and many other inti.

ALL ABOUT GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC

Prevly referred to as Gay-Straight Allianc, now the acronym “GSA” more equently stands for “Genr and Sexualy Alliance” to reflect the full spectm of sexual and romantic orientatns, and to explicly clu trans and genr diverse muny members.

Many GSAs functn as support groups that provi safety and nfintialy for stunts qutng their inty or stgglg wh homophobia and/or transphobia.

GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC: MAKG ONTAR SCHOOLS SAFE AND INCLIVE

Some also te themselv and the broar school muny about sexual orientatn, sexual inty, genr inty, genr exprsn and create awarens about the effects of and how to challenge sexist stereotyp, homophobia and transphobia.

Many straight, cisgenr youth are volved bee they regnize that endg homophobia and transphobia are important civil rights and human rights issu. This clus homophobia and transphobia, but n also clu racism, sexism, ableism, relig discrimatn, and more.

'GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC' GET GREEN LIGHT UNR ONTAR BILL

Homophobic and transphobic harassment and vlence are very mon schools and among teenagers. While addrsg transphobia and homophobia is the rponsibily of all TDSB employe, GSAs that nduct stunt and teacher sensivy trags typilly see a crease slurs, name-llg, and harassment followg their advocy efforts.

Even other stunts (not the GSA) will be drawn to the school-wi discsn of homophobic and transphobic cints and attus. In the past, homophobic admistrators Ontar have told stunts they nnot ll their group a Gay-Straight Alliance. The Gay Men’s Sexual Health Alliance (GMSH) champns the health of 2SGBTQ+ men Ontar.

CATHOLIC SCHOOLS BALANCE GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE CLUBS WH BELIEFS

Ontar policians are batg legislatn on bullyg schools, while the provce's Catholic bishops object to g the name "gay-straight alliance. What they object to is that Bill 13, the acceptg schools act, giv "particular emphasis" to "LGBTTIQ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenred, transsexual, two-spired, tersexed, queer and qutng) people.

" They also oppose a particular clse that would enable stunts to ll anti-bullyg groups they form at school a "gay-straight alliance. Protters outsi a high school Flour Bluff, Texas, on March 4, 2011, support a senr at the school, after she was nied permissn to start a gay-straight alliance club. A 2011 study fund by Egale Canada Human Rights Tst, a gay rights advocy group, found that "20.

STUNTS ULD LL GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE A 'GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE' UNR NEW ONTAR LEGISLATN

Stunts support GSAsThere is also strong support for gay-straight allianc om stunts both public and Catholic schools a 2011 survey of over 7, 000 stunts for the Ontar Stunt Tste' Associatn, 88 per cent agreed, "that a stunt wantg to tablish a Gay Straight Alliance club their school should be allowed to do so. Found bullyg of sexual mory stunts is ls mon schools that have an anti-homophobia policy and/or have a gay-straight a May 28 terview wh CBC Rad's Matt Galloway, Ontar Edutn Mister Lrel Broten fend her new amendments. "To many of our stunts, we know that the term gay-straight alliance has great meang and that words matter and that if you n't name somethg, you n't addrs , " she Squire, chair of the London District Catholic School Board, told CBC Rad's Wei Chen that "no stunt has e forward and said they want a gay-straight alliance.

PREMIER FENDS 'GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE' CATHOLIC SCHOOLS

'We are all sners'Thomas Cardal Colls, archbishop of Toronto, oppos an Ontar ernment bill that would allow stunts any school to form groups lled gay-straight allianc.

ANTI-BULLY BILL TO ALLOW GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC

(Alsandro Bianchi/Rters)The Toronto archbishop views GSAs as "a particular method of addrsg one form of bullyg, and providg personal support" and a mol closely related to the gay his May 28 prs nference, Colls asked, "Why are Catholics and Catholic schools not ee to atta the same goal, of love and rpect for everybody, not allowed to atta the same goals their own different ways?

'MORE VAL NOW:' GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC GO VIRTUAL DURG RONAVIS PANMIC

"She poted to the example of Newfoundland and Labrador, which she se as "way ahead" of Ontar and the rt of Canada alg specifilly wh anti-gay bullyg.

ANTI-BULLYG BILL PASS, CLEARG WAY FOR GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANC ONTAR SCHOOLS

What is a Gay-Straight Alliance? Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) clubs are stunt groups that une youth who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, two-spir, and all other non-normative genr and sexual inti, such as non-bary (LGBTQ2+).

CATHOLIC TEACHERS SUPPORT ONTAR’S GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE IATIVE

Gay Straight Alliance For Safe Schools (GSAFE).