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Tolerated, but not accepted Discrimination the day-to-day norm for transgender people
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his summer Daphne Shaed gave out 300 resumés. She went to 30 interviews. She hoped to land a summer job that suited her skills as a workshop facilitator and Camosun College Student Society Pride director. Eventually she took the only job she could find working the graveyard shift at a Saanich hotel. “I would get called for an interview and then when I met (the employers), you could Natalie North just see it on their faces Reporting that I wasn’t getting the job,” said Shaed, a transgender woman. “The community here is tolerant, but tolerance is different from acceptance. Tolerance just means they’re going to leave you alone, but they’re still not accepting; they’re still not willing to have you come into their workplace and work on a front counter.” Shaed has become a community leader in trans education. Last year she organized a series of workshops at Camosun aimed at understanding transidentity and self-identification. Sessions on social etiquette in the scope of gender, pioneers in transidentity and medicalization drew full audiences and this fall she continued her work with an added focus on sexual health for trans men and women. Shaed’s approach to education reaches beyond workshops to her willingness to share her story with new classmates to coffee shop baristas who mistakenly refer to her as a man, in the name of making things better. “I’m a woman, but I’m a different kind of woman,” Shaed said. “People meet me and say: ‘I’ve never met a transexual
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Addiction recovery for teens comes to Saanich Salvation Army facility moving from Vic West church rectory to house Roszan Holmen News staff
She left school in Grade 10. Ten years ago within the privacy of her home, Kelly began to transform into the woman she felt had always existed within her: Daphne, a name she chose for herself as a young child, based on the Scooby-Doo cartoon character.
After a months-long search for a new home, Beacon of Hope House is on the move. “We’re seeing it as a new beginning,” said Keltie Manderville, co-ordinator of the Salvation Army’s residential recovery centre for teen boys struggling with a range of addictions. Since 2007, the centre has quietly operated inside a church rectory in Vic West. Like many community organizations, it got an eviction notice earlier this year when the Anglican Diocese of B.C. began selling several of its properties to pay off debt. When St. Saviour’s church sold in February, the Salvation Army launched a search for a new six-bedroom home, properly zoned to allow for a recovery centre. As the Oct. 31 eviction deadline approached, Manderville stopped accepting new clients, to avoid potentially disrupting their treatment. The last boy graduated from the 90-day program in mid-October. With one week left on its lease with the Diocese, Hope House announced the purchase of a new house that met all its criteria, near the Uptown shopping centre in Saanich. The exact location is not public. “We’re waiting for a new sprinkler system, so that’s really a hold-up,” Manderville said. She hopes to open the doors for the next set of boys by the end of the month. In total, Vancouver Island has 21 supportive recovery beds for teens.
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Daphne Shaed, a transgender woman and Camosun College pride director, holds a candle for the Transgender Day of Remembrance this weekend. before.’ Well they probably have, they just don’t know.” Shaed was assigned to the male sex at birth and named Kelly. She suffered violence throughout her years in Victoria middle and high schools by peers who thought her to be gay – an assumption she allowed to continue for fear of the repercussions that would arise if her true trans-identity was revealed.
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