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Florence Ashley

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Florence Ashley
B.C.L, LL.B., LL.M.
Born (1992-04-15) April 15, 1992 (age 34)
Laval, Québec, Canada
🏳️ NationalityCanadian
Other namesFlorence Ashley Paré
💼 Occupation
Course Instructor
📆 Years active  2016 to Present
🌐 Websitehttps://www.florenceashley.com

Florence Ashley (15 April 1991), is the nom-de-plume of Florence Ashley Paré, a French-Canadian transfeminine jurist, bioethicist, and activist.

They served as the first known openly transgender law clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada from 2019 to 2020.[1]

Currently, they are a doctoral student at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and Joint Center for Bioethics, and continue to write on transgender issues in academic journals & lectures, news editorials, and social media.

Biography

Early life & Education

Florence Ashley was born in Laval, Québec and attended Cégep de Saint-Laurent.[2]

They obtained civil law and common law degrees at the McGill University Faculty of Law in 2017.[1] They subsequently obtained an LL.M. with specialization in bioethics from McGill University, where they were awarded the O’Brien Fellowship.[3]

Ashley's master’s thesis, entitled Outlawing trans reparative therapy (2019) analyzes the scope, impact, and limits of legislative prohibitions on such forms of conversion therapy.[1] They were supervised by Dean of Law Robert Leckey.[4]

In 2020, Ashley began their doctoral studies at the University of Toronto Joint Center for Bioethics, under the supervision of Brenda Cossman, FRSC.[5]

Career

From 2019-2020, Ashley was a law clerk to Justice Sheilah Martin of the Supreme Court of Canada. They were the first openly transgender person recorded to hold this position in Canada.[1]

They presently lecture on introduction to trans studies at the University of Toronto.

Activism

Ashley is a frequent contributor on transgender, feminist, and social justice issues, with articles published in The Globe and Mail, CBC News, IRPP Policy Options, HuffPost, The Advocate, Le Devoir, and La Gazette des Femmes.[6][7][8][9][10][11][12] They have also made televised appearances on Télé-Québec, Radio-Canada, and CTV News.[13][14][15]

Since 2016, Ashley served as a member of the Committee on Sexual Orientation and Gender Vocabulary of the Québec Board of the French Language, of the Trans Committee of the Conseil québécois LGBT, and has served as co-director and chair of the advisory committee of the Montreal Trans Legal Clinic.[1][16][17] They are also a member of the Gender Dysphoria Affirmative Working Group.[18]

In 2017, Ashley spoke at a meeting with the Special Advisor to the Prime Minister on LGBTQ2 issues Randy Boissonnault to discuss concerns with the Parliament of Canada's Bill C-16 (42-1), as well as to advocate for the repeal of Bill C-36 (41-2).[19]

Ashley was observed in the group leading the Fierté Montréal pride parade in 2018.[20][21]

Published works

  • Ashley, Florence and Sergio Domínguez, “Transgender healthcare does not stop at the doorstep of the clinic.” The American Journal of Medicine. doi:10.1016/j.amjmed.2020.09.030
  • Ashley, Florence. “Homophobia, Conversion Therapy, and Care Models for Trans Youth: Defending the Gender-Affirmative Approach.” Journal of LGBT Youth, 2019. doi:10.1080/19361653.2019.1665610
  • Ashley, Florence. “Les personnes non-binaires en français : une perspective concernée et militante.” H-France Salon, vol. 11, no. 14, 2019, #5, online.
  • Ashley, Florence. “Gatekeeping Hormone Replacement Therapy for Transgender Patients is Dehumanising.” Journal of Medical Ethics, vol. 45, no. 7, 2019, pp. 480-82. doi:10.1136/medethics-2018-105293
  • Ashley, Florence. “Thinking an Ethics of Gender Exploration: Against Delaying Transition for Transgender and Gender Creative Youth.” Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, vol. 24, no. 2, 2019, pp. 223-36. doi:10.1177/1359104519836462
  • Ashley, Florence. “Don’t Be So Hateful: The Insufficiency of Anti-Discrimination and Hate Crime Laws in Improving Trans Wellbeing.” Transfiguring Justice: Trans People and the Law, special issue of University of Toronto Law Journal, 2018, vol. 68, no. 1, pp. 1-36. doi:10.3138/utlj.2017-0057

Honours, decorations, awards and distinctions

  • Canadian Bar Association’s Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Community Section Hero Award, 2018-2019.[1]
  • Forces AVENIR Graduate Personality, Finalist Award, 2019.[22]

Bibliography

  1. Paré, Florence Ashley. Outlawing trans reparative therapy, 2019. McGill University, Montreal.

See also

External links

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Florence Ashley, LL.M., Receives the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Community Section Hero Award". www.cba.org. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
  2. ↑ "2018 Supreme Court Clerks : Law | Focus online". Retrieved 2020-10-29.
  3. ↑ "Current Graduate Students and Post-Doctoral Fellows". Centre for Human Rights & Legal Pluralism. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
  4. ↑ "Outlawing trans reparative therapy". eScholarship@McGill. Retrieved 2020-10-29. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  5. ↑ "Florence Ashley | University of Toronto Faculty of Law". www.law.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
  6. ↑ "Protecting transgender people means protecting our pronouns". Retrieved 2020-10-30.
  7. ↑ "Florence Ashley | CBC". CBC. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
  8. ↑ June 25, Policy Options Originally published on Policy Options; 2019. "Florence Ashley". Policy Options. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
  9. ↑ "Florence Ashley". HuffPost Canada. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
  10. ↑ "Florence Ashley Pare". www.advocate.com. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
  11. ↑ "Florence Ashley" (in français). Retrieved 2020-10-30.
  12. ↑ "L'opposition médiatique aux communautés trans". Le Devoir (in français). Retrieved 2020-10-30.
  13. ↑ Identité de genre | Zone franche | Zone Vidéo Télé-Québec (in français), retrieved 2020-10-30
  14. ↑ Médias, Groupe des Nouveaux. "Radio-Canada.ca | Information, radio, télé, sports, Arts et divertissement". Radio-Canada (in français). Retrieved 2020-10-30.
  15. ↑ "Trans advocates call for protection of sex workers after Point St. Charles murder". Montreal. 2017-09-18. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
  16. ↑ "Forces AVENIR". www.forcesavenir.qc.ca. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
  17. ↑ "Florence Ashley". HuffPost Québec (in français). Retrieved 2020-10-30.
  18. ↑ "Who We Are". Gender Dysphoria Affirmative Working Group. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
  19. ↑ Flaherty, Victoria (2017-02-14). "Trudeau's Special Advisor on LGBTQ2 issues hosted by Liberal McGill". The McGill Tribune. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
  20. ↑ "Photo by Patrick Sicotte". Twitter. Retrieved 2020-10-30. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  21. ↑ "Transgender women take the lead in Montreal's 34th Pride parade". Montreal Gazette. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
  22. ↑ "Forces AVENIR rewards extraordinary commitment of McGill students". McGill Reporter. 2019-10-10. Retrieved 2020-10-29.


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