Hi, my name is Ashley Wylde and welcome to my channel
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Today I'm going to tell you three things that you can do or start doing
right now to be a better cisgender ally to the transgender community.
I've intentionally selected some kind of entry level things, so that if you're
really looking to be a better ally to the trans community, but maybe you don't
know where to start, you can do these three things
right now, and hopefully in the process of doing them, lead yourself to other ways
to better support the trans community
Number one: Think about where you spend your money
Are you spending your money with a company that regularly donates
donates money against trans people?
That sounds really absurd but it isn't.
The salvation army is a good example of a company that regularly donates money
to anti-GLBT legislature. If you do just a little bit of research about
the stores and companies and organizations that you support through your financial
contributions or purchases, and you find out that some of them are working against
progressing GLBT or trans-specific legislature, or if you find out that those companies
have trans-exclusive policies, you can choose to redirect your money
to trans-friendly companies, or to companies owned, or run by trans people.
Number two: You can introduce yourself with your own pronouns
or do something like put your pronouns in the signature line of your emails.
When you're meeting someone, you might say
Hi, my name's Ashley I use she, her, and hers pronouns.
There are a couple reasons why this is important
First, it lets trans people and nonbinary people know that they are safe to share
their own pronouns with you, and it doesn't make it weird.
The other reason it's positive to introduce yourself with your pronouns is because
it can start a conversation about gender with other cis people.
You can open up conversations about why pronouns are important
with other people when they say, "hey, I noticed you introduced your pronouns"
"Why did you do that?"
and Number three:
If you are a student at a school or university,
if you work for an organization or a company,
or if you are a member of a group or an organization,
you can examine the policies in place to find out if any of them are trans exclusive.
And furthermore, to find out if you have inclusive policies
surrounding gender, and gender identity and gender expression.
This is important because a lot of times a company, or a school
or an organization won't move forward to change these things
until a trans person has already been hurt by the exclusive policies
When you do this, and you take this active step
You remove the burden of helping these policies progress
from trans people.
If you don't know what a trans exclusive or a trans inclusive policy looks like
I encourage you to research similar organizations to your own
and see what they are doing, what language they are using, to be inclusive.
There is an abundance of information out there and the biggest thing you can always do
to be an ally is to do the research.
I hope you take this video to heart, because I've just given you
three ways that in the next hour, you could become a better ally
to the transgender community.
Thank you so much for watching, and for caring about being a good ally
to this community. My shirt - I'm going to put a link
in the description.
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