Trans Day of Visibility 2025: Where Are We Now?

The Faculty of Health Sciences, in collaboration with REAFFIRM Collaborative, Re-IMAGYN BC, and The Roundtable, are proud to present an event celebrating trans leaders at SFU!

This roundtable brings together students, staff and faculty members for a conversation about trans joy, visibility and vulnerability, and mutual aid in difficult times.

How you can help support 2S/LGBTQ+ health equity

We are asking attendees and supporters of this event to consider supporting the work of REAFFIRM Collaborative, a SFU research team that seeks to understand pathways to health equity for 2S/LGBTQ+ people.

Your donation will be used to support research and community partnerships that respond to the evolving needs of queer, trans, and gender expansive people at a time when their safety and rights are increasingly under threat.

Make a gift to enhance 2S/LGBTQ+ health equity.

About REAFFIRM Collaborative

Our projects explore why health inequities persist, aiming to identify strategies for improving health among 2S/LGBTQ+ populations. We work in partnership with a range of community organizations (e.g., SAGAH, The Roundtable, Qmunity, and others!), to ensure that our research is applicable and responsive to community needs.

This work is especially important during a time of policy shifts that threaten the rights of transgender and gender expansive people. In 2021, nearly 100 bills were introduced in the US, aimed at restricting trans students’ access to various school spaces, including sport participation and washrooms. In 2023, >500 anti-trans bills were proposed in the US. Limited early research suggests that these legislative shifts trans already contributing to measurable increases in anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder among TGE populations. Similar legislative trends are now apparent in Canada. In the summer of 2023, the governments of Saskatchewan and New Brunswick introduced policies restricting the ability of school staff to use affirmed names and pronouns for students <16. In January 2024, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced plans to introduce even more extensive restrictions than those used in SK and NB, additionally forbidding trans women from participation in women’s sports and banning youth access to gender-affirming medical treatments.