Creating and Fostering a Safe Workplace for Trans and Gender Diverse Employees – Network Webinar Series
Identifying as a trans or gender diverse employee in policing institutions comes with unique and often misunderstood or unseen challenges. This webinar was focused on trans and gender diverse employee wellness within policing institutions and on how leaders, supervisors, and colleagues could foster and ensure a positive and safe workplace for trans and gender diverse employees.
Webinar panelists, who represent members from the Gender Diversity in Canadian Policing Advisory Group, explored topics including policy creation, understanding unsafe spaces, employee resources, gender transitioning in the workplace, allyship, and leadership-forward approaches to fostering inclusion.
The panelists discussed these topics while sharing lived experiences as gender diverse, trans folks, and allies working in policing institutions across Canada.
Meet Our Presenters
- Stephanie Howard (She/Her), Forensics/Equity and Inclusion Unit (Retired), Ontario Provincial Police
- Lane Mercer (They/Them), Equity and Inclusion Advisor, Edmonton Police Service
- Kat Dauncey (They/Them), Detective Constable (Hate Crimes), Vancouver Police Department
- Madeleine Goldsmith (She/Her), Constable and Diversity and Equity Officer, Halifax Regional Police
About the Gender Diversity in Canadian Policing Advisory Group
The Gender Diversity in Canadian Policing Advisory Group is comprised of people with lived experience and allies from across the country. The mandate of the Gender Diversity in Policing Advisory Group is to advance the culture and inclusion of gender diversity within police services; working collectively to develop and recommend best practices, programming, policy, and education on gender diversity within public safety.
The following recommendations will be shared for consideration and adoption by police services across Canada:
- Provide support and resources to gender diverse people working in public safety
- Develop a Gender Diversity in Public Safety Toolkit (policy, procedure, employee resource group/internal support network/member support network documents from other organizations)
- Advise and provide information to interested policing agencies and partners on Gender Diverse topics
Gender Diversity definition - Gender-diverse is an inclusive term used to refer to multiple types of gender identities that fall outside cisgender and/or binary understandings of gender. (Gender diversity definition provided by the Province of British Columbia)