Growing into Resilience: Sexual and gender minority youth in Canada

A large portion of this chapter compares Diane Ehrensaft's Model of Relational True Gender Self Therapy with Kenneth J. Zucker's Developmental, Biopsychosocial Model Used In Treating Children Diagnosed with Gender Identity Disorder. Since Zucker's model attempts to 'correct' gender trans*gressions, it is "...inconsistent with [Ontario] provincial and international human rights guidelines..." In sum, this book may bolster preservice teachers' and graduate students' awareness of systemic homo/transphobia, hetero/cisnormativity, heterosexism and genderism-a much needed departure from resources and pedagogies that are grounded in safety and inclusion discourses (see Britzman, 1995; Linville, 2009; Lapointe, 2015), and thus, build their capacity to address and (hopefully) prevent SGM-based oppression.