Share the Love Week 2025 Theme
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
The theme for Share the Love 2025 is “Gender Diversity has always existed”. The theme was chosen by the District GSA from ideas suggested by principals and SOGI leads.
What is Gender Diversity?
Gender diversity is an umbrella term that is used to describe gender identities that demonstrate possibilities that are beyond male or female.
For many gender diverse people, the concept of binary gender – having to choose to express yourself as male or female – does not express their identity.
Some people would prefer to have the freedom to change from one gender to another, or not have a gender identity at all. Others just want to be able to openly defy or challenge more normalized concepts of gender.
For gender diverse people, their identity is about presenting something more outwardly authentic to the world, whether they understand themselves to be differently gendered, or have no gender at all.
Umbrella terms such as non-binary, genderqueer or X gender are adequately broad descriptors for gender diverse people. Individuals, however, may use more specialised personal terms to describe themselves within their own peer group and safe spaces.
There is debate about what pronouns are acceptable, or should be used to describe gender diverse people. The singular ‘they‘ (e.g. “they are taking their dog for a walk”) is widely recognised as an existing pronoun that is respectful of gender diversity. There are many other gender-neutral pronouns that people may use (such as fae and eir), but ultimately it is best to use the pronoun the gender diverse person asks for.
What kindergarteners taught me about gender: A TED talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvJTsrWarrw
This website lists different pronouns and ways to be inclusive.
https://lgbtqia.ucdavis.edu/educated/pronouns-inclusive-language
This is an article from NPR about using pronouns and explaining terms you might not be familiar with
https://www.npr.org/2021/06/02/996319297/gender-identity-pronouns-expression-guide-lgbtq
Queer Glossary: A to Q Terminology
If you are looking for a glossary of terms this website has a great resource
https://qmunity.ca/learn/resources/
A website made by a youth collective
http://sendtherightmessage.ca/
This website allows you to practice different pronouns
https://pronouns.minus18.org.au/