If you’re shy you can also DM me but fr no pitches right now please lol

Just looking to make connections atm! If you know of someone who fits the bill feel free to pass this along. Content will primarily be created in English, but solid understanding of French is a must, as is LGBTQ2S+ knowledge + competency.

Trans people are not on that list. Imagine the province cared about incarcerated people's safety, health or well-being. They would be focussing their energy elsewhere.

The idea that this is about safety is farcical. A recent study found that prison deaths in QC are up by 87% over the past 13 years. Contributing factors? Dilapidated facilities, excessive use of isolation, overcrowding, lack of mental/physical health care montreal.citynews.ca/2024/02/22/q...

Allegedly prison staff will be given training, a "best practises guide." But we know from extensive documentation by journalists, activists and incarcerated ppl that LGBTQ2S+ ppl in prisons rarely receive a shred of dignity. We can't DEI workshop our way out of the mistreatment that will arise

We're about to enter a provincial election period here. So far the current government has focussed largely on drumming up panic about the french language and immigration. I hope this is not a sign that trans issues are about to be added to that list.

Yeah, totally. It's also a bit interesting that despite all this the suggestion was to maintain self-determination in the carceral context. Not that we want a governmental panic over prisons—but there's just a clear lack of throughline or thought in a bunch of places

And it as, it does break my brain that so much money was spent on this report, when that time and those resources could have gone towards anything that would have benefited the lives of LGBTQ2S+ people in the province.

Anyways, there's some concerning stuff in here, but I personally had been bracing myself for worse. The TLDR is that the report begins literally being like "to start off we just want to remind you that we're not experts in gender identity" lol so. What was produced reflects that entirely.

I also mean that it privileges an intensely bureaucratic approach, studying concepts and passing them through a million steps ad nauseam, hah

When I say this report is very Quebec I mean that it is clearly informed by the wish for "social consensus." That can be for better (you don't have the inflammatory language you see used in political spheres elsewhere) and for worse (there's a clear push to maintain the status quo).