Maritime Transgender Workplace Solutions Project
Confidential Transgender Data Base
Why a data base at all:
As the
public become more educated they also ask questions. Some of these are not only
valid but important questions. Just how many are there, what are their needs,
where can and what do we need to make changes to, who do we need to train and
in what way to meet these needs.
As the
public becomes more aware, the transgendered community also
become more focused at an earlier age. So as a community we need to have
some idea how many peoples needs we are preparing to meet. Resources need to be
in place at an earlier age. No one should grow up feeling they are alone and
certainly not with the impression no one understands what they are going
through.
From
childhood to any age you wish to mention, the system has control over
transgendered people more than any other sector of the community. They decide
what we can wear, where we use the washroom and ultimately we are the only
sector of society that has to prove to a multitude of so called professionals
that we are not mentally ill before being able to access medical services that
we have often clearly understood and desired since as early as two to six years
of age.
In
numbers we have is strength. With a more firm idea of our communities
geography, the more strength we have when asking the oficials
for fair representation and protection. While there is a need for the
statistics, no government or large group or corporation can be trusted to
address and protect this information. MTWSP has developed a data base that can
be used to give out the data while protecting OUR identities. Only YOU have all the details, you can list under a self chosen
name and get a number to match. Changes can be made as you self identify
according to your personal growth. While
the word transgendered is perhaps not an umbrella name you identify with, in
the data base we separate and identify by your choice. Whether Intersexed,
Crossdresser, transsexual, Two spirit or any other, it
is your choice.
We ask
that you contact us in anyway comfortable to you.
No
matter how you contact us, all we want is a general idea of:
who you identify as, the services you access or need, the age
group you belong to, employment status, Income group, transition status if
applicable, Birth gender assigned, gender identified with,
We
also need to identify the numbers involved in sex trade and their needs, the level of HIV/Aids
in the community.
As
little or as much information as you are comfortable with.
If you
identify with our community, please contact us. If you know someone else who is
part of our community, ask them to contact us.
No names or emails will be given out to any group for any reason. No
data statistics will contain personal data. We want to hear where you were
treated right and wrong and by who, so we can build a
database of referral services that are TG safe and welcome.
To
Contact MTWSP
Email: denisesined@ns.sympatico.ca
Tel: (902)568-2935
Fax: (902)568-2935
Mail:
Denise Holliday
162, Hwy 336
Halifax County, Nova Scotia B0N 2M0