Resources

Creating Awareness and Understanding of the Transgender Community is an educational video created by the Greater Sudbury Police Service in partnership with TG Inner selves. Lesson plan, PowerPoint, and speaker's notes also available. 

Note: This video uses the term "sexual identity" to refer to "sex." In other contexts, the term "sexual identity" is often used to mean "sexual orientation." 

The Domino Project is a peer led initiative for and by Black LGBTQIA+ youth (16-29 years old) in Toronto. In May 2020, the Domino project introduced the Domino Table Talk, an online discussion series, to understand how COVID-19 affected the daily lives of young Black Queer and Trans people who accessed their program. This report summarizes the experiences of the participants, who identified mental health and well-being, access to health care, social connections, safety, employment, income security, and transportation as the main areas of their lives affected by the pandemic. 

Questioning your sexuality can be difficult to navigate as a young Muslim. This resource is for young Muslims who want support around their various complicated identities, from religion to sexual orientation and gender identity.

This document is intended to assist practitioners in providing hormone therapy and primary health care for trans clients. It summarizes current clinical practice at Sherbourne Health Centre, and provides guidance with regard to common dosages of hormones, monitoring strategies as well as references and resources for further learning and support. 

A change in Canadian immigration law, one can lose both their refugee status and Permanent Residence if the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) decides that they accepted the protection of their home country (known as “re-availment”) and therefore that their refugee status should be removed (known as “cessation” of refugee status).  The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is actively looking for cases in which they can argue that refugees have accepted the protection of their home country.

In "No Place for Me: the Struggles of Sexual and Gender Minority Refugees", lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) urban refugees in Mexico, Uganda and South Africa tell their stories in their own powerful voices. By ORAM (Organization for Refuge, Asylum, & Migration) International.