Pride Month Resources

To honour Pride month, we will be highlighting resources each Friday in June that are available for continued learning! This week, we hope you'll learn about Transgender Pride resources.

Read

• Five LGBTQ+ figures who shaped history from The Boar
• Pflag Canada applauds federal government's first steps towards criminalizing conversion therapy nationwide from Pflag Canada
• Over 100k people are transgender in Canada, 2021 census shows from Global News 
• Pride Education Network from Pride Net
• Canada's LGBTQ2+ Archives from the Arquives

Watch

• 4 Canadian transgender activists you should know about from CBC News

•  Upholding transgender rights in Canada from Breakfast Television

 Local Resources

• Diversity Cornwall 

• Crisis Line (age 16+): 1-866-996-0991

• Child, Youth, & Family Crisis Line of Eastern Ontario (age 15 and under): 1-877-377-7775

• Gender Affirming Application (EN) from Diversity Cornwall and the United Way of SD&G

• Gender Affirming Application (FR) from Diversity Cornwall and the United Way of SD&G

Books on Transgender Pride at Cornwall Public Library

• Growing up Trans: In our own words edited by Dr. Lindsay Herriot and Kate Fry
• Trans like me: Conversations for all of us by C.N. Lester
• Trans Futures Now: A Guide for the Queer Community and Allies to Achieve Acceptance by Milo Stewart
• Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter? by Heath Fogg Davis
• To my Trans sisters edited by Charlie Craggs