LGBQT - early
conversations promote
healthy identities and
build allies
Meg Thomas - - AMAZE
Danny Reinan - - Avalon School
Participants will understand the research and child
development that informs work with young children
related to gender and sexual orientation.
Participants will explore their own gender stories
Participants will create action plans for working in
their own settings to ensure that every child feels safe
in bringing every part of their unique identities to
school
Who’s here?
Starting a relationship
Modeling best practices
The power of story
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What’s your first memory of gender or
who you were attracted defining or
impacting your life?
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How were students who didn’t fit into
expectations about gender treated in
the school you went to? By other
students? By the adults around them?
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Was gender ever discussed in your
school environment?
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Genderspectrum.org
What’s your gender story?
Gender and sexual
orientation don’t stand
alone
Biological sex
§ Gender identity
§ Gender expression
§ Sexual orientation
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Gender??????
Weight/Appearance 22.6
q Race
9.1
q LGBT
7.3
q Gender
6.8
q
(25.3/19.8)
(8.2/9/9)
(6.4/8.1)
(9.5/4.2)
Bullying prevalence in
MN Middle and High
School Programs
Mn schools survey 2013
Empathy development
Molnar Szakacs, 2011, Belzung 2014, Decety 2014
Gender understanding
starts early
Kennedy and Hellen, 2010) Moe 2014
Stereotype vulnerability
Schuster, 2015, Spencer 2016, Steele 2010 Katz 1981
Children take in adult
perspectives
Monteiro 2009 Killen 2007
Our actions don’t always
match our values and beliefs
Banaji 2016
We need to talk about it
Palke 2014
Trying to be “genderblind” isn’t
effective
Hachfelt 2015, Katz 2003
Open, honest conversations are..
Cameron 2006, Hawkins, 2007, Katz 2003, Vitrup
2011
.
The effects of stereotypes
and bias are significant
and long lasting
Where do we go from
here?
would love to help
www.amazeworks.org
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boté (bō-TAY); (Crow)
§
winkte (wing-TAY); (Lakota)
§
lhamana (LHA-mana) (Zuni)
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nádleehí(NAHD-lay) (Navajo)
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Hijra. Or khwaaja sira (Pakistan and India)
Culture shapes our view of gender
That man over there says that women need to be
helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to
have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps
me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives
me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at
me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted,
and gathered into barns, and no man could head
me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much
and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and
bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have
borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to
slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's
grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a
woman?
Fairness matters
(Blake 2011, Shaw 2014 Geraci 2011
What we do makes a
difference
Monteiro 2009 Moe 2012, Tiet 2009 , Olsen 2016