Boys, girls, and everyone else

Ontario public school board responses to gender diversity

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12925327
AutoresAli Durham Greey (0000-0002-5882-1560, University of Toronto, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume60
Fascículo4
Páginas686-707
Data de publicação2023-10-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCanadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1755-6171 • E-ISSN: 1755-618X
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/cars.12459
PMID37789660
OpenAlexW4387327066
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas33

Trans and nonbinary youth issue a challenge to K-12 schools, which regularly assume gender is binary and immutable. Although scholars have explored how educational institutions are responding to trans and nonbinary students, fewer have examined the assumptions implicit within these responses. By analyzing policy solutions as diagnostics of institutions' implicit representations of social problems, I examine how educational institutions construct the terms of membership for trans and nonbinary students. This article examines all publicly-available Ontario public school board documents (N = 359) including the terms "gender identity" and/or "gender expression." The findings show patterns in school board approaches. Roughly 80% of responses focus on a case-by-case, individual-level response. The remaining 20% adopt a systemic approach to trans and nonbinary inclusion. Few responses challenge binary-sorting practices. This article addresses the broader social issue of how public organizations deal with difference and the limits of individual accommodation responses to systemic inequity

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