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Through the House of Commons, she is a member of the Canadian NATO Parliamentary Association and the Canada-United Kingdom Inter-Parliamentary Association (with bilateral meetings coming up March 2 to 6 in London, UK and Edinburgh, Scotland). She told Island Social Trends in Victoria (during the BC NDP convention last fall) that already being in parliament is important for the next NDP leader to best lead the party in current issues of the day, to hit the ground running so to speak. This appears to be her key winning advantage as well as being articulate on a range of sociopolitical issues.\\n\\nHeather McPherson, NDP leadership candidate [NDP]\\n\\nIsland Social Trends weekly Premium ENEWS direct to your InBox. Keen insights for informed community leaders. Subscription levels: Individual, Small Teams & Corporate.\\n\\nTanielle Johnson is from northern Vancouver Island and promotes the importance of her understanding and advocacy for First Nations and rural issues.She is a registered social worker and a municipal city councillor. \\u201cShe\\u2019s running to lead the NDP into a new era, one where the party leads with courage, centers equity, and organizes from the ground up,\\u201d as stated in her campaign profile. She brings a fresh insight with stable bright energy that might indeed appeal to the next generation of NDP supporters.\\n\\nTanille Johnston, NDP leadership candidate [NDP]\\n\\nAvi Lewis is a politician and writer who has vied before for the leadership, running without success as a federal NDP candidate in 2021 in West Vancouver\\u2014Sunshine Coast\\u2014Sea to Sky Country, and in 2025 in Vancouver Centre (up against long-time Liberal MP Hedy Fry). He hosted a CBC world affairs show on CBC from 1998 to 2001. Lewis seems to lean on family reputation, which may not be what a modern world relates to. Lewis is married to author, social activist, and filmmaker Naomi Klein. He comes from a family of NDP leaders, being the son of former Ontario NDP leader Stephen Lewis and grandson of former federal NDP leader David Lewis. His mother Michele Landsberg was a journalist/columnist with The Globe and Mail and The Toronto Star and a former editor of Chatelaine magazine which had influence on urban women in the 1970s and 1980s.\\n\\nAvi Lewis, NDP leadership candidate [NDP]\\n\\nRob Ashton has spent 30 years in the union movement. His campaign leads with issues for workers as well as the affordability crisis and growing inequality. \\u201cThe NDP must once again become the party of workers and everyday people,\\u201d says Ashton in his campaign profile, saying that solidarity isn\\u2019t a slogan but how he has lived his life. 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As it spread beyond those spaces, it became something else; a shorthand for the quiet negotiations many non-binary people make at work, where survival, politeness and uniformity come before selfhood.\\n\\nFor many non-binary people working customer-facing jobs, pronouns are not just personal identifiers. They are workplace tools, negotiated daily in environments that demand speed, politeness and uniformity above all else. In these spaces, where the customer holds power and ambiguity is treated as inefficiency, some workers are forced to choose to temporarily switch off their non-binary identities.\\n\\nAdvertisement\\n\\nWhen I was 16, I started using they/them pronouns. My teenage years were when I was arguably the most visibly queer: I had cropped, bright-pink hair, multiple facial piercings and I went to art school. Honestly, I was surprised when I was hired at McDonald\\u2019s. I was less surprised when they put me in the back, flipping burgers. I worked there for three months, but I never shared the pronouns I used in my personal life with my co-workers. It wasn\\u2019t that I stopped being non-binary during my shifts. It was that explaining myself felt like more labour than the job already demanded.\\n\\nService jobs leave little room for complexity. Workers are expected to be friendly, neutral and efficient at the same time. No one is supposed to stand out. Gender ambiguity disrupts that flow. Correcting someone takes time. It invites questions, creates conflict\\u2014and\\u2014for the many workers whose income depends on tips, hours or managerial goodwill\\u2014that risk can be too high.\\n\\nAsh Salokhiddinova, who works as a server in Toronto, says they made a conscious choice to use binary pronouns at work early on. \\u201cI feel like coming out to my co-workers would just end up making me feel kind of humiliated and embarrassed,\\u201d they say. \\u201cI don\\u2019t like feeling that way about who I am, so I would rather just not share it with people that wouldn\\u2019t respect it.\\u201d Introducing themself as non-binary felt like inviting scrutiny they didn\\u2019t have the energy to manage, especially in an environment where being easy to work with often translates into being treated fairly by management and their peers.\\n\\nGet free Xtra newsletters Xtra is being blocked on Facebook and Instagram for Canadians as part of Meta\\u2019s response to Bill C18. Stay connected, and tell a friend.\\n\\n\\n\\nPronoun pins are often cited as a solution for trans workers in customer-facing jobs, but in practice, the non-binary workers I spoke to say that\\u2019s not an option for them. \\u201cWe\\u2019re not allowed to wear any accessories on the uniform itself, so it never really occurred to me,\\u201d says Salokhiddinova, who works at a small, independently owned restaurant.\\n\\nEven when pins are provided by the employer, as they are at Starbucks, wearing one can feel like an invitation for stares, questions and comments. \\u201cIt\\u2019s a visual reminder,\\u201d says Seph Lagman, a thrift-store worker in Vaughan, Ontario. \\u201cIt can mark someone as different in a space that rewards sameness, especially when only one person on the team is wearing them.\\u201d\\n\\nThis kind of visibility raises safety concerns, particularly as anti-trans violence is increasing in North America. Being read as trans at work can be dangerous, especially in a public workplace where you have no control over who walks through the door.\\n\\nOutside of work, Lagman says they present very femininely, letting their long hair flow over form-fitting tops and skirts. While on the clock, they usually don a more masculine persona. \\u201cI really don\\u2019t see my work self as anything close to how I actually present myself,\\u201d they say. \\u201cThere\\u2019s a lot of filtering going on. There are different people in these spaces and I just feel like the chances of me experiencing something scary are lessened if I\\u2019m not presenting how I usually do.\\u201d\\n\\nTahlia Santagato is a transmasculine, non-binary barista working in Newmarket, Ontario. They use they/he pronouns and, despite wearing a pronoun pin at work, they often get misgendered. They say they rarely correct customers about their pronouns\\u2014not because it doesn\\u2019t matter but because those interactions are fleeting. \\u201cA random customer is not worth the hassle [of correcting] because I\\u2019m just there to give them a coffee, not an education,\\u201d they say. The bigger frustration, Santagato says, comes from the co-workers who continue to misgender them despite knowing better.\\n\\nCustomers are strangers. Co-workers are not. When they get it wrong, or don\\u2019t try to get it right, it can feel less like a misunderstanding and more like a lack of respect. Several workers told Xtra about the weight of managing not only customer expectations but also the silence of co-workers who witness them being misgendered and say nothing.\\n\\nAdvertisement\\n\\nSantagato, who says they present masculine both at work and in their personal life, also says, \\u201cMy co-workers and my supervisors can be a little bit disappointing.\\u201d When managers or peers don\\u2019t intervene, the burden of correction falls back on the non-binary worker, reinforcing the idea that continuously having to ask for respect is part of the job description.\\n\\nSphynx Church, who has worked in the service industry in Montreal and Toronto, says that they started occasionally code-switching to conform to the hypermasculine, bro-culture attitude exhibited by some of their co-workers. \\u201cI have this very masculine persona when I\\u2019m working with cisgender men,\\u201d they say. \\u201cIt removes some of the friction from my job when men just talk to me like a man.\\u201d This persona comes off with their uniform at the end of the day, when they can let their hair down and return to their more feminine, authentic self. While the switch is necessary, they say it also makes the stress of the job worse, which can be exhausting.\\n\\nLagman agrees, \\u201cIt\\u2019s just harder. You have to deal with not only a shitty job and shitty pay but you also have to deal with the fact that you know you look different, and that people are thinking about it.\\u201d\\n\\nThis kind of code-switching is rarely acknowledged as labour for trans people. But it requires constant calculation of presentation, tone, language and safety. Over time, that compartmentalization takes a toll. Research on minority stress published in 2024 in the journal BJPsych Open shows that chronic misgendering and identity suppression are linked to increased anxiety, burnout and depressive symptoms among trans and non-binary people. In 2022, Trans PULSE Canada found that 59 percent of non-binary people are misgendered every day.\\n\\n@xtramagazine LGBTQ2S+ immigrants travel hundreds of miles away from home to make a life for themselves in a new country\\u2014but finding a job in Canada can be full of challenges. Ken Popert Media Fellow Victoria Hincapie Gomez spent the last two months reporting on how unstable government funding limits employment programs for trans and queer immigrants. #lgbtqnews #canada #immigration #canadanews \\u266c original sound \\u2013 Xtra Magazine\\n\\nChurch, who has worked in service for eight years, is proof that this line of work isn\\u2019t just a temporary stopgap for many queer and trans people. Discrimination in hiring and limited protections in professional fields often funnel LGBTQ2S+ workers into low-wage, customer-facing jobs. According to the Canadian government\\u2019s 2SLGBTQI+ Action Plan Survey, 74 percent of trans respondents said that they felt sharing their gender identity during the hiring process would reduce their chances of being hired at an establishment they don\\u2019t know to be LGBTQ2S+ friendly.\\n\\nOn paper, non-binary workers in Canada do have protections. Gender identity and expression are protected grounds under the Canadian Human Rights Code and in provincial rights codes, meaning workers cannot legally be fired or denied employment for being trans. In unionized jobs across the country, collective agreements often also include language prohibiting harassment and discrimination, and promoting respectful workplaces.\\n\\nAdvertisement\\n\\nBut these protections often rely on workers being willing and able to file complaints. In low-wage service jobs with high turnovers, few workers have the time, resources or job security to pursue formal action. Policies can mandate respect, but they can\\u2019t force cultural change on a floor where managers don\\u2019t intervene, co-workers are ill informed and customers are treated as sacrosanct.\\n\\nStill, within these same workplaces, trans workers are finding ways to care for each other. For many non-binary people in service jobs, the safest space on the floor isn\\u2019t created by policy, it\\u2019s created by other LGBTQ2S+ co-workers who understand what it means to code-switch, to be misgendered and to keep going despite it all.\\n\\n\\u201cI think there are lots of work environments that could really like you for who you are,\\u201d Salokhiddinova says. \\u201cWorking at [my last job], there were a lot of queer people at work. A lot of the customers were queer. It was a super-safe and friendly environment.\\u201d\\n\\nSantagato says there are small acts of solidarity that make a difference: a co-worker quietly correcting a customer, someone checking in after a bad interaction, a shared eye-roll behind the counter. \\u201cI just feel bad for correcting people, so I don\\u2019t\\u2014but I do have a few nice co-workers to do that for me,\\u201d they say. These moments don\\u2019t erase the stress of the job, but they can make it feel less isolating.\\n\\nIn an environment that demands assimilation, queer and trans workers often build their own pockets of recognition. 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