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PORTLAND — The School Committee will vote Wednesday on a resolution that aims to increase the financial stability of the district.
The resolution would direct the superintendent, school staff and Finance Committee chairman to collect information and recommend a multi-year budgeting plan. A final recommendation of the mulit-year process would be delivered to
the School Committee for acceptance by Dec. 1.
The resolution brings several school initiatives together
into a single document. It specifically mentions the 2008
Plan for Sustainable Education Quality, an effort of both school and
city officials to find operational efficiencies. Those efforts, coupled with the
Report of the Facilities Task Force, which contains enrollment
projections through 2019, have positioned the district to begin
planning for the long term.
The multi-year budgeting process is
proposed to include examining detailed descriptions of educational
programs, services and content areas. The committee will evaluate the
previous five budgets, examine needs assessments for school departments
and recommend implementation options.
School officials predict that future budgets will become increasingly difficult due to a projected decrease in state education funds. Some have suggested Portland's subsidy could drop by $3.6 million next year.
Complicating the subsidy decline are late state budget projections, unanticipated cuts (like the threatened $1.8 million curtailment last year), unfunded education mandates and county assessments.
"The Portland School Committee has determined that the traditional single-year school budget process leaves the school district at the mercy of political priorities," the resolution says.
In other business, the committee is scheduled to vote on authorizing the superintendent to enter into a five-year lease-purchase agreement with Business Equipment Unlimited for 89 photocopiers. The contract would cost the district nearly $660,000, which includes paying off the final two years of a current six-year lease.
Following the business meeting, the School Committee will meet in a workshop session to discuss two other long-range planning topics: A community visioning process to help help guide a strategic plan for the district; and a course of action to begin addressing issues raised by the Facilities Task Force.
The proposal for a community visioning process would cost $7,500 plus expenses, according to the proposal. A consultant would be hired to moderate a diverse group of between 50 and 80 stakeholders from the community and reach a consensus about the direction of the public school system.
The vision statement could then be used as the basis of a long-range strategic plan that would look five to 10 years into the future.
Superintendent James Morse Jr. said he hopes to conduct the visioning process over the course of three days this fall and have a vision statement drafted by Thanksgiving.
The School Committee will also begin discussing how to proceed with addressing the needs of school facilities, which were outlined in a recent facilities report.
Wednesday's meeting is scheduled to start at 7 p.m. in room 250 of Casco Bay High School, 196 Allen Ave.


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8 Outdoor supports Armistice Day Two Minute Silence11/Nov/2016
To respect and support Armistice Day, 8 Outdoor displayed creative on all of their screens to observe the two minute silence at 11am today.
All 29 screens in the 8 Outdoor portfolio displayed a creative provided by The Royal British Legion, reminding the public of the two minute silence which marks the end of the First World War and remembers and honours British Servicemen and women who have lost their lives in past wars and current conflicts.
Cennydd Roberts, CEO of 8 Outdoor said "We are extremely proud to be supporting the work by The Royal British Legion to honour those who have lost their lives for their country. We hope that by displaying a reminder of the two minute silence when people are out and about, we can help encourage the public to pause and pay their respects for this poignant moment."


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Columbia City Council members amended and approved stricter requirements for a controversial potential housing development near Rock Bridge Memorial State Park.
The tougher ordinances affect the amount of impervious surfaces the new development is allowed to have. Impervious surfaces are surfaces such as streets or sidewalks that reduce the amount of water that soaks into the ground. The changes come on the heels of dozens of water concerns community members voiced about the project.
The subdivision was proposed by a private developer for the area adjacent to the northwest corner of the state park. During more than three hours of discussion at last night's council meeting, Columbia City Council heard about 35 people speak for and against the development. Columbia residents and park users expressed concerns about the environmental impact that would result from a new neighborhood in the area. The impact of runoff water was the primary concern presented to council members during the lengthy comment period.
"If this project goes forward, it is expected to be one of the densest urban developments to share a boundary with a state park in the state of Missouri," said Sara Parker Pauley, Director of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. "That means every decision made here has the potential to set a precedent for future development near our state parks or natural areas."
Once the development company, Parkside Estates, reworks its plans for the property to accommodate the amended ordinances, the city council will vote on approving the entire subdivision.
This story originally aired as part of Business Beat, a weekly program about business and economics in mid-Missouri.


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Vaastu is a science that provides a set of principles for the construction, layout and interior design of houses, industries, temples and even Town planning by building up harmony with the five basic elements of universe. These five basic elements are Agni (Fire), Akash (Sky), Jal (Water), Prithvi (Earth), and Vaayu (Wind) that are similarly attuned with the cosmic balance and are orientated according to the movement of the sun and moon, the electromagnetic field of the earth, and the astrological influence of the planets.
All these the five elements which if aligned properly can lead to bring in harmony inside a house, business place and industrial establishments. There are various corners of a building which tends to radiate energies which can be negative or positive in terms of influence on the people inhabiting the building or the man made structures. The aggreagated result of the positive and the negative forces helps in creating harmonious atmosphere inside a building, house, commercial building and in turn helps people to live happily and enervated if the aggreagated result of energies turn out to be positive.
When alignment is achieved, the living space echoes the basic structure of the universe, and prana (the energy sustaining all living beings) flows freely through the living space, bringing health, happiness, peace and well-being to its inhabitants.
Vaastu originated over 5,000 years ago from the ancient sacred Hindu texts known collectively as the Vedas.
Indian civilisation has been at the helm of scientific research since a few thousand years. Earlier, this science was made in constructing palaces, temples and for a selected few only.
The transfer of the knowledge of Vaastu was not easy but was confined to a selected few only and most interestingly no Manuscript is available since this science was imparted by mouth through 'Gurukul' system and is still a closely guarded secret amongst a few till date.
Though 'Vaastu Shastra' is a holistic science, but there exists a relationship between the element of religion and science.
Some people have clubbed Vaastu with Feng Shui, Astrology etc. The result is that since horoscope of an individual or owner is consulted when planning or designing a house according to Vaastu rules. That particular construction will not necessarily be good for other family members, whose horoscope will apparently be different from that of the owner. Hence, the Universal Vaastu is more realistic. In such a situation how much ' Vaastu Shastra' can be relied upon, is a matter of concern.
The layout of your residence or workplace is very similar to an Horoscope. In astrology one cannot tame the baneful planets whereas the science of Vaastu prescribes that the Earth being one of the nine planets is the best approach to configure to our needs and get the best results and get benificial results from such ill effects of the planets.
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Chassis: Rear Suspension
Chapter 5: Chassis - Rear Suspension[edit]
Preparing the basic rear suspension components[edit]
|Building the rear suspension begins by placing the rear of the frame on jack stands or blocks at your anticipated final ride height. Then, with the wheels bolted on, roll the rear end unit into position as closely as you can to its final ride position under the frame. Make sure the axle is maintained at a right angle to the frame rails. Block the wheels so that they can't creep forward or backward. Next, lift the pinion and place it on a floor jack. Then, jack the pinion up or down until the pinion angle is between 2-3 degrees up (higher toward the front of the car). This angle may vary with different applications, but it should always match the downward angle of your transmission shaft. You can measure the angle across the face of the yoke as shown by the arrows in Photo 5-1.
Fabricating the rear four-bar system[edit]
Our rear end radius rod system will be the same four-bar style as we used on the front suspension, including pre-threaded sleeves and heim-type rod ends. The sleeves should be threaded with left and right threads on either end, and the rod ends should be left- and right-threaded as well. This makes it a snap to adjust the rear end and front end with a simple twist of the sleeves.
To attach the bars, we need to fabricate mounting brackets for the rear axle, and mounting brackets for the frame rails. We will begin with the axle mounting brackets.
The design of this particular rear axle bracket is somewhat unique, and may not be the prettiest, because it was designed to limit any welding directly on the rear axle housing. These housings are quite easy to warp if you do not have the proper equipment to hold them solidly during the welding process and do not use the proper welding techniques. These brackets are therefore designed to attach primarily to the leaf spring mount and shock mount, which have already been solidly welded to the housing. This may look a little odd, but it greatly reduces the amount of heat going into the axle housing itself, and allows the hobby welder to do the job, rather than taking the rear housing to a pro to do the mounts.
|The axle mounting bracket is made from 1/8" wall, 2x3 tubing. Measure and cut the tubing to length based on the estimated distance between your upper bar and your lower bar. Bars can be set up in a number of different configurations, so your bracket length may be different than what is shown here, but the same general procedure can be applied. Next, drill a hole near the top of the bracket for mounting the upper radius rod. Then cut out a section on the front (forward facing) side of the tube, large enough for the radius rod to be installed and to achieve sufficient travel during road conditions (Photo 5-2). You will also note in this photo that the top and bottom of the bracket have been cut at an angle. As you will see in photographs to follow, the bracket for this particular car is mounted on the axle at an angle that matches the angle of the frame kick-up section. This is to allow the upper and lower radius bars to be the same length. So, the angle used to cut the top and bottom of the mounting bracket will match the angle between the lower frame rail and the frame kick-up section.
|The bracket is then positioned by using a mocked-up set of radius bars, and is tack welded as shown in Photo 5-3. While most of the welding is done on the existing shock bracket rather than the axle housing, there is a weld joint directly between the axle housing and new bracket as indicated by the arrow in the photo. Photo 5-4 is an overhead view of the bracket being tack welded in place. Note that the leaf springs have been temporarily clamped in place to help ensure that the location of the axle is correct and that the four-bar location will not interfere with the springs.
The bottom radius rod connects to the axle using the original stock shock mount, which has been drilled out for a 5/8" bolt (Photo 5-5).With the radius rods connected to the axle, you next move to the frame to fabricate mounts for the other end of the radius rods. And for that, you need to determine the angle of your four-bars. Don't simply assume that "parallel with the ground" is going to suit your particular chassis. Each chassis is different and each application is different, particularly if racing is going to be involved. To determine the angle for your bars, this source will provide an excellent description of the process, as well as links to an online calculator that can determine this angle for you. For this particular project, an angle of 5 degrees will be used for the bars.
Using a magnetic angle gauge attached to the bottom radius rod, move the bar up and down until the gauge reads 5 degrees. Then, mark the frame at the exact center of the rod end and drill a 5/8" hole through both walls of the frame. Your rod end should be extended approximately 1/3 its thread length out of the sleeve (at both ends) when determining this mark. (Note: when mocking up bar lengths, remember that the total amount of rod end adjustment is NOT the total length of the threads on each rod end. You need approximately 1/3 of the length firmly threaded into the sleeve to provide proper support. So, the actual adjustment length will be 2/3rds of the total thread length.)
|Although it is not absolutely necessary, our design calls for the radius rods to run parallel with the frame, rather than angling outward or inward. To do this, clamp the bar in position parallel to the frame using a wood spacer between the bar and the frame. Then, measure the distance between the frame and the inside surface of the rod end, and deduct the width of any washers that you might be using. Cut a spacer from 1/8" wall 1" steel tubing which has been reamed out to accommodate a 5/8" bolt. This spacer is then clamped to the frame with the mounting bolt and tack welded in place as shown in Photo 5-6. Photo 5-7 shows a close-up of the spacer ready for welding.
|Once you have the spacer attached and the lower bar bolted in place, move to the top bar, lining it up to run parallel with the lower bar. Drill the mount hole and make a spacer as you did for the lower bar. Photo 5-8 shows the upper and lower spacers welded to the frame. Photos 5-9 and 5-10 show the completed driver's side rear four-bars. With these in place, move to the passenger side of the frame and construct those mounts in the same way. Photo 5-11 shows both sides of the four-bar system completed.
The rear springs[edit]
|With the rear end now held in place by the radius rods, you can move on to the fabrication of your spring system. For this car, we are using quarter elliptical springs similar to those used on the front suspension. The springs are cut from the "back halves" of stock F-100 semi-elliptical springs in the same way the front springs were made from the front halves of the semi-elliptical stock springs.
The mounting plate for the spring stacks consists of a 12" long perch and four "legs" to attach the perch to a frame crossmember and drop it down 2" from the crossmember (Photo 5-12). All pieces for this mount are 1/4" flat stock steel. Four holes are drilled in the mounting plate for attaching the spring stacks.To weld the four legs square to the perch plate, a piece of 2x3 square tubing is used as a guide, and the bracket parts are clamped in place around the tubing (Photo 5-13). The plate and legs are then centered on a 2x3 crossmember which was cut to length and shown earlier in Chapter 2.
|At this point, the exact height and position of the spring perch on the crossmember is a bit of guesswork. But, based on the front end spring compression, we can make an educated guess as to where it will work. Photo 5-14 shows the legs of the spring mount welded to the crossmember and the spring stacks bolted in. The crossmember and spring pack are installed as a single unit between the frame rails, located just behind the apex of the frame kick-up. Photo 5-15 shows the crossmember and spring pack being positioned and clamped to the frame rails for welding.
Just like the front suspension, the leaf springs in the rear will glide on rollers held within adjustable mounting brackets. The brackets are shown in Photo 5-16. The glide components are shown in Photo 5-17 and the mounted glides are shown in Photo 5-18. As was done with the front suspension, these glides were later upgraded with roller bearings.
The glide brackets are then tack welded to the stock leaf spring pads, thereby minimizing any welding directly on the axle housing (Photo 5-19). The chassis can now be fully suspended on its own springs, both front and rear (Photo 5-20).
Front and rear shock mounting[edit]
|Pete and Jake's shorty shocks will be used, both front and rear. Photo 5-21 shows the parts used for mounting each rear shock. The two "ears" at the bottom of the photo will be welded to the frame and become the upper shock mount. The grade-8 bolt with the head cut off will be welded to the axle's original leaf spring pad and become the lower shock mount.
Since there is no body on the car, we have to do some guesswork to determine the upper shock mounting position. The lower mount is fixed by its location on the axle. So this mount (the bolt shown in Photo 5-21) is positioned and welded so that it lines up with the existing leaf spring pad.The upper mount must be set so that, hopefully, the shock rod will be approximately halfway extended when the car is completed and sitting at rest. There may be some formula to calculate this positioning with mathematics, so if you can find the formula, use it. Otherwise, you may have to cut and re-position your mounts later if your best guess is a bit off.
The method used for this car was to set the leaf spring glides to their lowest position, thus dropping the frame to its lowest position. The shock was then installed onto the lower mounting bolt and the shock rod fully extended. A mounting "ear" was bolted to each side of the upper shock end and the ears positioned against the frame so that the shock was lined up square. The ears were then welded in place (Photo 5-22).
If at all possible, design as much adjustability into your shock mounts as you can. Or, as an alternative, leave this step until much later in the project when the full weight of the car is resting on the chassis. We lucked out with the method used on this project, but the chassis does have some adjustment built into the leaf spring rollers, and that saved having to cut and re-mount the shocks later.
|For the front suspension, the shocks had to be mounted so that they operate opposite of how shocks typically operate. This is because the car has an underslung frame. If you look closely at Photo 5-23, you will detect that when the wheel hits a bump and the axle travels upward, the shock will extend. When the wheel hits a pothole and the axle travels downward, the shock will compress. On typical frames, this would be just the opposite, with the shock compressing with upward axle travel and extending on downward axle travel.
But as long as you have 50/50 shocks, this makes no difference whatsoever to your shock; it couldn't care less what direction it is going. It will provide the same degree of dampening going up as coming down. Just to be certain, Pete and Jake's was contacted about mounting the shock this way and confirmed the mounting theory was correct and that the shocks would work properly.Photo 5-24 is a close-up of the front shock mount. As you can see, two "ears" were welded to the frame on the lower end of the shock and the upper end of the shock was bolted to the axle mounting bracket which was fabricated in Chapter 3.
Panhard bar[edit]
|To complete our basic chassis, we must have a way to keep the rear axle from moving from side-to-side. There are a number of ways to accomplish this, but we will be using a simple Panhard bar for this project.
The basic physics of a Panhard bar is illustrated in Photo 5-25. Source The Panhard bar, incidentally, is named after Rene Panhard, who was the founder of the Panhard motor company in France. Source SourceThe Panhard bar runs parallel with the rear axle, one end securely attached to the frame and the other end securely attached to the axle or an axle component. 1x2 rectangular tubing is used to fabricate the Panhard frame mount (Photo 5-26).
|The bar itself is a long sleeve with left-hand threads in one end and right-hand threads in the other. Heim-type rod ends are inserted in each end of the sleeve. The bar is mocked up in the frame mount and then the components are adjusted until the Panhard bar is parallel with the axle, parallel with the ground, and will not come into contact with the axle center section of any other part of the rear end. The frame mount is then welded in place (Photo 5-27). The free end of the Panhard bar will be attached to the spring roller mounting bracket near the opposite wheel of the car. A small extension with a hole drilled in it is welded to this bracket and then a spacer is cut so that the Panhard bar will clear the center section of the axle (Photo 5-28).
|The spacer and Panhard bar are then bolted in place (Photo 5-29). The assembled Panhard bar is shown in Photo 5-30.
The basic rolling chassis is now complete (Photos 5-31 to 5-36).
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Syrian rebels intensify attacks after Qusair defeat
June 11 - Several Syrian rebel brigades have regrouped to attack military outposts following President Bashar al-Assad's forces' victory in the border town of Qusair. Deborah Gembara reports.
The sting of Assad's victory in once rebel-held Qusair still fresh, Syrian rebels intensified their attacks on military targets throughout the country, in this latest video posted to the internet whose content Reuters cannot independently verify. Different brigades came together to bombard this military outpost near the northern town of Idlib but found themselves under fire in war torn cities like Homs. Rebels have been plagued by setbacks since the start of the year and rightfully fear the shift the war has taken since trained Hezbollah fighters began fighting along side government forces. Both sides are believed to be on the move for Aleppo, where a fierce battle is expected for control of Syria's largest city.


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The entire Joe's Place organization would like to thank our outgoing President, Susan Lee, for her four years of dedicated service to Joe's Place. During this time, much has taken place at Joe's Place! During Susan's tenure, the board has added the Maplewood Shuffle as our signature fundraising event for Joe's Place; numerous administrative functions have been streamlined; new funding resources have been identified and five new members have joined the Joe's Place board. Susan's leadership has continued to build an affirming, collaborative environment for our extraordinary house parents, Dan and Alyssa Reeve and Jeremy and Rachel Mapp, for our high school students and our Program Committee. Seven MRH High School students have graduated during Susan's term as President. Most of all, we are going to miss Susan's friendly and energetic presence, her organizational and professional skills and her intelligent and thoughtful communication. Susan, thank you for your commitment to Joe's Place and our community!
We would like to welcome our incoming President, Heath Moylan. Since joining the board in 2014, Heath has managed the installation and oversight of a new donor management system and a new website. Heath began his volunteer work for Joe's Place during the planning and completion of our first Maplewood Shuffle in 2014 and continues to work to grow the event. As Joe's Place enters its 10th year of service, Heath is focused on ensuring the ongoing stability of Joe's Place while finding new ways to provide needed services to homeless and at-risk students in the MRH community.


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Source: Ontario Registrar has Rejected More than Half of Sex-Designation Requests, Including Mine—and they Shredded my Birth Certificate!
By Christin Scarlett Milloy
Trans* people who were born in Ontario can apply to the Registrar General's Office (part of the Ontario Ministry of Government Services) to have the Sex designation on their Birth Certificate changed to reflect their Gender Identity. At least, they can try.
Information from within the Registrar General's office, which I have obtained from a reliable source, reveals that of the first 213 applications received since the surgical requirement was officially dropped (between October 5th 2012 and May 24th 3013), only 96 have been approved. 117, more than half, have been rejected.
Most were returned due to "outstanding requirements." So what are the requirements, really, and why are so many applicants having trouble meeting them?
For one thing, a Doctor's note is still a requirement, it says so on the cover page of the form. But, ambiguously, after stating this requirement, the forms then follow with a section called "alternate evidence" which suggests that it might not be an absolute requirement… Although unhelpfully, they are not at all specific with examples for what will suffice (and have even been known to reject applications for no good reason at all).
One option for alternative evidence is: "a document or certificate issued by a jurisdiction in which the applicant was domiciled or ordinarily resident that, in the opinion of the Registrar General, confirms that the applicant's gender identity does not accord with the sex designation on the applicant's birth registration and it is appropriate that the sex designation be changed."
My Application
So I applied, and although I do possess a doctor's note, I chose not to provide it on the grounds that the requirement is discriminatory. Any dealings with my doctor are none of the government's business and are private, unless I consent to disclose them (eg. by writing about them in a blog).
Instead of submitting to the oppressive government requirement to prove I've allowed my gender identity to be pathologized, I chose instead to test the ambiguous "alternative evidence" provision; I included the original copy of my Change of Name certificate. In a letter addressed to MPP Harinder Takhar (the Registrar General), which I attached to my application, I explained:
- To satisfy the requirement for documentation in support of this application, specifically the second option afforded under part 4 of the Statutory Declaration form, which reads "a document or certificate issued by a jurisdiction in which I was domiciled or ordinarily resident," I have submitted my original legal change of name certificate. It was issued by the Ontario Office of the Registrar General, and bears your signature. Please return this certificate to me upon completion of my request.
- Said change of name certificate evidences that, in September of 2010, I changed my name from one which expressed (and is traditionally associated with) a male identity, to a new name which expresses (and is traditionally associated with) a female identity.
- I have not provided your office any medical or psychological documentation relating to my gender identity, because I believe the enforcement of any such requirement constitutes an act of invidious discrimination directed against individuals whose gender identity does not correspond with their physiological birth sex, since individuals outside this category are not required to seek diagnosis by medical or psychological professionals in order to have their gender identities legally recognized. I, therefore, hold that any such requirement as part of Ontario's Application for a Change of Sex Designation on a Birth Registration process is in violation of the Ontario Human Rights Code, which was amended in 2012 to include explicit protection for Ontarians on the grounds of Gender Identity and Gender Expression.
Now, first let me recognize that this approach would not work for everyone, and acknowledge that it's problematic for a couple of reasons… For one, it wouldn't work for anyone who hadn't had a name change (and not everyone can access a name change, or wants to). Second, it wouldn't work for anyone using a more ambiguously gendered name, or for anyone whose name is not culturally familiar to the staff at the RG's office. However, my intent here was to test the alternative evidence provisions, and to experience first-hand the treatment that an application receives when it goes through without a doctor's note.
I submitted the application on February 22nd. I received a letter dated May 3rd stating that they acknowledged receipt of my application and that it was still being considered.
Finally, I received a package, with a cover letter dated May 10th, from Ms. Sandra Leonetti, Deputy Registrar General.
I was disappointed, but not surprised, to find that my application to have a birth certificate that accurately reflects my identity was rejected. However, they didn't just reject my application, they went a step further and shredded my birth certificate without sending me a new one.
"Your original birth certificate has not been included, as birth certificates are destroyed as a security measure when they are received by this office. However, another birth certificate will be issued to you at no cost, if you complete the enclosed application and return it (…)"
The included application form was a standard "Request for Birth Certificate." As a direct consequence of bureaucratic government barriers that go with gender transition, I have already had to fill out this exact application on two previous occasions. Completing this application again now would require me to find a guarantor, and to identify myself as a man, just to get back to where I was before I applied; stuck with a birth certificate with the wrong sex designation. Like hell I will.
The Difference Between Sex and Gender, Except when they're Legally the Same
All we Trans* people, even those who've gone through surgery, will forever live with certain aspects of our biology which track to the circumstances of two gametes forming one zygote (fertilization at conception). Nothing, short of gene therapies and nanotech (which hasn't quite been invented yet), can ever change the chromosomes in the nuclei of our cells. So in that respect, I will always be biologically male. I'm not arguing that I'm not biologically male, and I will even stipulate to the presence of a penis at the time of my birth. As such, my sex was recorded as "male."
The whole core of the argument here is whether a "Sex" designation should be changed according to a person's Gender identity, regardless to the physical state of their body, and if so, why? And who gets to decide when it's appropriate?
The conventional wisdom goes that since biological sex (and not gender) is what is recorded legally on a Birth Certificate, and since biological sex does not change arbitrarily just because you feel like a girl (or whatever), that your birth certificate should not be changed either. I mean, that's fair, right, because the same rules apply equally to everyone! Right!? This is how a number of (cis) detractors have responded to my advocacy for equal access to ID, by patiently explaining to me the "difference between sex and gender."
Wow. So what you're saying is, my gender identity is not dependent on my legal or biological sex? What a revelation, it's as though a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders. I guess I shouldn't care what it says on my birth certificate… Except the real world isn't that simple.
In a perfect world, the record of the biological sex assessed at the time of my birth would be a meaningless statistical record of historical fact, unchangeable and irrelevant to my daily life (like birth weight, or birth hospital). It would be harmless trivia, and I wouldn't have any problem with it, if it was not also used synonymously with an identification of gender, throughout life.
See, a birth certificate is a required gateway to any other sort of ID. One must provide a Birth Certificate to access a Driver's License, a Passport, and any number of other documents and services. And the sex designation follows you around like an inescapable shadow.
When a police officer, or a customs agent, checks the designation on your Driver's card or your Passport or in some computer database, they're doing it because they need to identify you as either a Man or a Woman. It's not because there's some procedural reason they need to know if you had a penis or vagina at birth.
The fact that these documents and databases, codifying gender for purposes of identification, rely on the "Sex" designation which ultimately traces to your birth certificate, is purely an artefact of an outdated cissexist system which has "always worked." Cis people don't have a problem with it, and so many question why the system needs to be changed. But it does. Here is why.
These markers, regardless that they are called "Sex" and recorded based on sex, are used to identify your gender. Having no accessible way to have those markers be changed according to gender identity creates huge barriers for Trans* people. These barriers are unique; cis people never face them, and that is why it is discrimination. Letting us change the "sex" designation more easily is a necessary stopgap measure, but it doesn't fix the entire problem. For one thing, people with non-binary identities are left out in the cold.
Ultimately, Sex and Gender need to be dropped from ID entirely, and I believe that eliminating the gatekeeper stranglehold on the process is a necessary step on the path to reaching that end goal.
The More Things Change, the More they Discriminate the Same
Prior to October 5th 2012, any Trans* person seeking this change of legal designation was required to prove that they had undergone "transsexual surgery." The only acceptable proof? Signed forms and letters from doctors, and a surgeon, attesting they performed work to transform our unacceptable transgender bodies into socially acceptable gender-congruent bodies. It was either that, or you didn't get your ID.
In our society, physical sex can only be determined by a doctor, highly trained to differentiate Slot A from Tab B in a clinical game of "penis or no penis." That was the argument (though I may be paraphrasing) against allowing changes of sex without proof of surgery which was used by opponents in the XY case.
Luckily the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal recognized how the legal sex designations are actually used, as a gender identifier, and determined that withholding the closest gender-appropriate binary legal sex designation from any person is discriminatory. Their April 2012 ruling afforded the Registrar General 180 days to remove them; they announced the new policy changes 173 days later.
At first, the RG's office didn't know what to do about it. If they weren't allowed to use surgery as a requirement, what should the new requirements be? They solicited recommendations from various groups who they perceived to be stakeholders in whether or not Trans* people should get to have their gender identities legally respected on equal terms with everyone else.
Two such groups consulted were CAMH, and the Trans Lobby Group (of which I was a member, prior to the group's disbanding earlier this year).
Among the recommendations in our submission were "that a guarantor other than a medical practitioner be able (to) verify an individual's request for change of sex," and "the amending criterion be no different from name change criterion for the general public." We also recommended that the process be the same for youth as it is for adults, or failing that, that if an adult guarantor would be required, that non-guardians be allowed to serve in that role (eg. in cases of trans* youth with uncooperative parents).
I don't have access to a copy of CAMH's submission, but it's a good bet they recommended the Registrar General's office maintain the gatekeeper involvement stranglehold, and to completely exclude trans youth from access to the service, because as I wrote in October, that's precisely what the RG's office has done.
It's now clear that where the Registrar General is concerned, it is indeed an absolute requirement to provide Doctor/Psychiatrist note proving one has had one's gender identity diagnosed in order to receive the service. It's the bureaucratic equivalent of "pics, or it didn't happen." In capitulating to the OHRT's ruling that surgical requirement is discriminatory, they have obeyed the letter of the ruling but they have violated its spirit and have spit once again in the faces of Trans* people everywhere.
The Bottom Line
By enforcing these requirements, the Ontario Ministry of Government Services is saying in no uncertain terms that anyone who is not cis needs a doctor to confirm that their gender identity is legitimate. I will fight this, tooth and nail, because it is just as infuriatingly discriminatory as the surgical requirement was.
Stay tuned, I have more news coming on this issue very soon.
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Posted this on Facebook, Tumblr, and Google +. I had no idea how many transgendered Ontarians were suffering such a direct form of discrimination from our Government. Thank you for writing and posting this article. It really helped me understand the issue.
While I know it's not much, I wanted to let you know that I'm really happy to see people like you fighting this stuff. 🙂
More power to you girl, and my hopes that things change for the better!
I also requested a change to my birth certificate with alternate evidence. The response I received was that the evidence I provided did not meet the requirements although it failed to to mention what the requirements were.
In my case the documentation I provided was a Health Card, Passport and Drivers Licence with a female gender marker on all three documents.
It baffles me that these three separate pieces of ID were not sufficient!
This is confusing to me. The author says you need a birth certificate to get a driver's license, passport, etc. (which is also my understanding), but you say you got those but couldn't get your birth certificate changed. How did you get those documents without the birth certificate?
Okay, I'm curious.
Who, exactly, are they "protecting" by setting these requirements?
Are they concerned about a stampede of fraudulent gender-switching applicants? Intent on changing their gender identity for nefarious or possibly illegal purposes?
Seriously, what possible abuse of the system could there ever be? We're talking about a couple of hundred applications here, right?
The cynical might suspect that the only purpose served by needlessly complicating this process – and rejecting applicants like the author – is simply to make life more difficult for people the officials don't approve of.
IT IS SO EASY TO GET ALL THIS DONE DONT BELIEVE THIS PAGE: 1)Your an idiot… They need the doctors note so that not just anybody says they are this and that… And rejections are because people don't fill out the forms right… Myself and many other friends have not had a problem… Because we read and followed the instructions…
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