The Centre for Human Rights, Equity & Diversity has released Humber’s Gender Diversity Policy. This policy outlines Humber’s position on the responsibilities of the College, students and employees with respect to protecting gender expression and gender identity consistent with the Ontario Human Rights Code.

The policy outlines the Humber Community’s commitments in several key areas, including but not limited to the following: privacy and confidentiality, all-gender washrooms, change-rooms, gender-inclusive language, and all-gender residence.

Some highlights of the policy are outlined below:

• Self-identification is the sole and whole measure of a person’s gender. (Section 1.1)
• All-Gender Washrooms (Section 3)

3.1 The College will make efforts to ensure that all members of the Humber Community can use washrooms with safety, privacy and dignity, regardless of their gender identity or gender expression. All members of the Humber Community may choose to use any accessible all-gender washroom, regardless of their reason(s) for doing so.

• Gender Inclusive Language (Section 6)

6.1 All individuals within the Humber College community are entitled to be referred to by the gender pronoun(s) of their choice

In the coming months, the Centre will be developing an online Gender Diversity training module. On December 7, 2015, the Centre will host a Diversity and Inclusion Dialogue titled ‘Working with Trans* Students in the Postsecondary Sector’. To register, please contact Candice Warner-Barrow at candice.warner-barrow@humber.ca or at 416.675.6622 ext. 4808.

For more information about the Gender Diversity Policy, please visit the Policies website at humber.ca/policies/gender-diversity-policy

If you have any questions about the Policy please contact Nancy Simms at nancy.simms@humber.ca or 416.675.6622 ext. 4425