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Florence Ashleyis a Canadian academic, activist[1]and law professor at theUniversity of Alberta.[2]They specialize in trans law andbioethics.They have numerous academic publications, including a book on the law and policy of banning transgender conversion practices.[3]Florence served as the first openly transfeminine clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada.[2]They are a winner of theCanadian Bar AssociationSOGIC Hero Award.[4]

Biography

Personal life and education

Ashley came out as trans and transitioned in 2015.[5]They usesingular theypronouns.[6]

Ashley attendedMcGill UniversityinMontreal,Canada,where they graduated with aBachelor of Civil Lawand aJuris Doctorin 2017 and with aMaster of Lawsin bioethics in 2019. They earned aDoctor of Juridical Sciencefrom theUniversity of Toronto Faculty of Lawin 2023, where they were also a Junior Fellow ofMassey College.[7][8]

Career

In 2019, Ashley became the first known openly transgender clerk at theSupreme Court of Canada,where they worked in the chambers of JusticeSheilah Martin.[9][5]During the same year, theCanadian Bar Associationawarded Ashley the SOGIC Hero Award.[1] In 2023, they joined theUniversity of Alberta Faculty of Lawas an Assistant Professor.[10]

Ashley's work is cited in theWorld Professional Association for Transgender Health‘sStandards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse PeopleVersion 8.[11]

In 2022, Ashley published the bookBanning transgender conversion practices: a legal and policy analysis.[12]The book is aboutconversion therapyfor transgender people and studies how they can be legally banned, and what impact this ban would have on the countries which would decide to implement these laws. Ashley believes that conversion therapy needs to disappear and that a formal ban improves the situation without fully solving the issue.[13]They cite theCentre for Addiction and Mental Healthin Toronto as an example of practices that were so bad, they served as a precedent to get conversion therapy banned in the province of Ontario.[12]

Ashley coined the term ‘gender modality’,[14][15]which is increasingly cited and applied in trans health[16]and education literature,[17]and by governments[18]and courts.[19]

In 2023, Ashley was one of 21 members appointed to theWorld Health Organization's guideline development group concerning the health of trans and gender diverse people,[20]but as of 15 January 2024, they were no longer listed as a proposed member of that group due to a schedule conflict.[21]

Selected academic publications

Books

  • Ashley, Florence (1 April 2022).Banning transgender conversion practices: a legal and policy analysis.Law and Society.UBC Press.doi:10.59962/9780774866941.ISBN978-0-7748-6692-7.OCLC1276933161.OL35589970M.
  • Ashley, Florence (13 February 2024).Gender/Fucking: the Pleasures and Politics of Living in a Gendered Body.CLASH Books.ISBN978-1-955904-93-3.OCLC1376495878.

Articles

Essays

References

  1. ^abChouinard, Maryse (5 February 2019)."En-" gendering "change".Natioal Magazine.Canadian Bar Association.Retrieved4 November2021.
  2. ^ab"Florence Ashley | Directory@UAlberta".ualberta.ca.Archivedfrom the original on 8 July 2023.Retrieved8 July2023.
  3. ^"Banning Transgender Conversion Practices".UBC Press.Archivedfrom the original on 10 April 2022.Retrieved7 April2022.
  4. ^"Florence Ashley, LL.M., Receives the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Community Section Hero Award".cba.org.Archivedfrom the original on 6 November 2021.Retrieved7 April2022.
  5. ^ab""À mon partenaire: avant de te rencontrer, je ne me pensais pas capable d'être trans et amoureuse"".Le Huffington Post(in French). 8 June 2019.Archivedfrom the original on 4 November 2021.Retrieved4 November2021.
  6. ^"Banning transgender conversion practices: Florence Ashley's first book is an important legal and policy guide to eradicating them".nationalmagazine.ca.Archivedfrom the original on 28 September 2022.Retrieved7 August2022.
  7. ^"Florence Ashley | University of Toronto Faculty of Law".law.utoronto.ca.Archivedfrom the original on 6 February 2022.Retrieved9 April2022.
  8. ^"Dis son pronom: les mots de la non-binarité".Le Devoir(in French). 6 July 2021.Retrieved4 November2021.
  9. ^"Florence Ashley, JD, LLM".Center for Applied Transgender Studies.Archived fromthe originalon 4 November 2021.Retrieved4 November2021.
  10. ^"Five distinguished legal scholars appointed to Faculty of Law".ualberta.ca.Archivedfrom the original on 8 July 2023.Retrieved8 July2023.
  11. ^Coleman, E.; Radix, A. E.; Bouman, W. P.; Brown, G. R.; de Vries, A. L. C.; Deutsch, M. B.; Ettner, R.; Fraser, L.; Goodman, M.; Green, J.; Hancock, A. B.; Johnson, T. W.; Karasic, D. H.; Knudson, G. A.; Leibowitz, S. F. (19 August 2022)."Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People, Version 8".International Journal of Transgender Health.23(sup1): S1–S259.doi:10.1080/26895269.2022.2100644.ISSN2689-5269.PMC9553112.PMID36238954.
  12. ^ab"A new book on conversion practices examines exactly what trans people need from lawmakers".xtramagazine.6 April 2022.Archivedfrom the original on 2 October 2022.Retrieved4 August2022.
  13. ^"Banning transgender conversion practices: Florence Ashley's first book is an important legal and policy guide to eradicating them".nationalmagazine.ca.Retrieved4 August2022.
  14. ^Ashley, Florence (2022). "'Trans' is my gender modality ". In Erickson-Schroth, Laura (ed.).Trans Bodies, Trans Selves.Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press. p. 22.ISBN9780190092726.
  15. ^Ashley, Florence; Brightly-Brown, Shari; Rider, G. Nic (13 June 2024)."Beyond the trans/cis binary: introducing new terms will enrich gender research".Nature.630:293–295.doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01719-9.
  16. ^Streed, Carl G; et al. (8 July 2021)."Assessing and Addressing Cardiovascular Health in People Who Are Transgender and Gender Diverse: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association".Circulation.144(6): e136–e148.doi:10.1161/CIR.0000000000001003.PMC8638087.
  17. ^"Transgender and Nonbinary Identities".Gender Identity.Planned Parenthood.Archivedfrom the original on 11 June 2019.Retrieved19 June2024.
  18. ^"Classification of cisgender, transgender and non-binary".Standards, Data Sources, and Classifications: Statistical Classifications.Statistics Canada.Archivedfrom the original on 12 June 2024.Retrieved19 June2024.
  19. ^Michel v. Graydon,2 SCR 763,101 (SCC 2020),archivedfrom the original.
  20. ^"WHO announces the development of a guideline on the health of trans and gender diverse people".who.int.Archivedfrom the original on 7 January 2024.Retrieved7 January2024.
  21. ^"WHO GUIDELINES ON THE HEALTH OF TRANS AND GENDER DIVERSE PEOPLE"(PDF).who.int.Archived(PDF)from the original on 17 January 2024.Retrieved17 January2024.
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