CERIC

March 29, 2015

Career counselling with gender-diverse individuals

By Christopher Cook (Cannexus17 GSEP Award Winner) In one Ontario study, 18% of gender-diverse participants believed they had been passed over for a job, and 13% reported being fired, due to discrimination based on their gender expression (Bauer et al., 2011). Over half of the gender minority participants surveyed by Lombardi, Wilchins, Priesing, and Malouf (2002) experienced verbal harassment…