Policy will be ‘practical basis for accommodating students’: superintendent
VANCOUVER, July 16,2014
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In a joint statement today, the Catholic Independent Schools of the Vancouver
Archdiocese (CISVA), and the family of Tracey Wilson, an 11-year-old diagnosed with gender dysphoria who had attended a Catholic school, announced the CISVA approval of a new policy that accommodates gender expression and students with gender dysphoria.
The Wilson family is applauding the CISVA for paving the way towards accommodating gender expression and gender dysphoria in youth. It will be the first Catholic school district in Canada to have such a policy.
“I am so glad that the kids in the Vancouver Catholic schools won’t have to go through what I went through,” says Tracey Wilson. “It was really hard for me because I did not feel accepted at school. Now kids like me will hopefully be supported.”
Doug Lauson, CISVA superintendent, said that Catholic teaching does not recognize that a student can change …More