Gabrielle Bouchard (born 1968) is a Canadian feminist. From 2017 to 2020, she served as president of the Fédération des femmes du Québec, the first transgender woman to hold the position.
Career
editShe previously worked for the Concordia University Centre for Gender Advocacy.[1][2][3] She has been described as an intersectional feminist.[4] In 2013, she led the centre in filing a court challenge against the Québec law on legal gender recognition, Centre for Gender Advocacy et al. v. AG.[5] In 2016, she was part of a group that won the Concordia Council on Student Life Big Hairy Ideas Competition, winning a grant to lead a comprehensive audit on the inclusion of genders, sexualities and learning styles in Concordia policies and syllabi.[6]
In November 2017, she was elected president of the Fédération des femmes du Québec, which represents 300 member organisations across Québec. She was the first transgender woman to be elected to the position in the history of the FFQ.[7][8][9]
In May 2018, after the government of Québec announced an increase in the minimum wage to 12$ an hour, she called for a further increase to 15$, stating that "we have mostly women, of all ages, in a variety of jobs, who are at minimum wage and will stay at minimum wage for a very long time."[10]
While president of the FFQ, she came under controversy several times for her tendency to make provocative posts on social media, including a tweet in June 2019 saying "maybe it's time we start talking about mandatory vasectomies at the age of 18" and a November 2019 tweet that said wearing the hijab was "badass."[11][12] In January 2020, she came under additional criticism after posting a tweet that read "Heterosexual relationships are really violent. And the large majority are based on religion. Maybe it's time to have a conversation about their abolition." She later apologised for the tweet, stating that she had been attempting to start a conversation about femicide in Québec.[13][14]
In June 2020, she announced she was stepping down from the presidency of the FFQ.[15]
Personal life
editBouchard grew up in Abitibi, Québec.[16]
References
edit- ^ Jardin, Laurène (December 10, 2017). "Meet Gabrielle Bouchard, the first trans president of the Quebec Women's Federation". www.cbc.ca. Retrieved June 10, 2021.
- ^ "An Interview With Gabrielle Bouchard of the 2110 Centre | That Transsexual Guy". thelinknewspaper.ca.
- ^ D'Amours, Matt (October 23, 2016). "Are Concordia and McGill doing enough to deal with sexual assault allegations?". www.cbc.ca. Retrieved June 10, 2021.
- ^ Hachey, Isabelle (Jun 12, 2019). "La femme qui dérange". La Presse.
- ^ "Centre for Gender Advocacy to sue Quebec". Dec 3, 2013.
- ^ "Three 'Big Hairy Ideas'". www.concordia.ca.
- ^ "La première femme trans à la tête de la FFQ veut pousser le féminisme au-delà de la tolérance". www.vice.com. 11 December 2017.
- ^ décembre 2017, Par Marilyse Hamelin 12 (Dec 12, 2017). "Gabrielle Bouchard: la peur de l'inconnuE".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Québec, Fédération des femmes du. "Départ de la présidente et gouvernance". Fédération des femmes du Québec (in Canadian French). Archived from the original on 9 July 2021. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
- ^ Enos, Elysha (May 1, 2018). "Quebec's new $12 minimum wage not liveable wage for women trying to escape poverty". www.cbc.ca. Retrieved June 10, 2021.
- ^ ICI.Radio-Canada.ca, Zone Société- (28 January 2020). "La présidente de la Fédération des femmes du Québec admet avoir été " maladroite "". Radio-Canada.ca.
- ^ Fortin, Steve E. (10 June 2019). "Vasectomie obligatoire à 18 ans???". Le Journal de Québec.
- ^ ""J'ai manqué de jugement", admet Gabrielle Bouchard". TVA Nouvelles. 28 January 2020.
- ^ "Une provocation de la présidente de la FFQ se retourne contre elle". HuffPost Québec. Jan 28, 2020.
- ^ ICI.Radio-Canada.ca, Zone Société- (23 June 2020). "Gabrielle Bouchard quitte la présidence de la Fédération des femmes du Québec". Radio-Canada.ca.
- ^ "Gabrielle Bouchard". femmes-egalite-genres.canada.ca. Retrieved 2021-06-10.