Purpose
LEAF is a national charitable organization that works towards ensuring the law guarantees substantive equality for all women, girls, trans, and non-binary people.
Vision
The realization of substantive equality for all women, girls, trans, and non-binary people in Canada.
Core Values
- inclusiveness and openness
- trust
- integrity and ethical behaviour
- diversity
- respect
- accountability
LEAF’s mission is to advance substantive equality for all women, girls, trans, and non-binary people. “Women” includes both cis and trans women.
Gender equality is when people of all genders have equal rights, responsibilities, and opportunities. When someone’s gender identity or gender expression puts them at a social, political, or economic disadvantage, they experience discrimination because of their gender.
In Canadian society, cis and trans women, trans, intersex, gender-diverse, gender non-conforming, genderqueer, genderfluid, agender, bigender, and non-binary people all experience discrimination based on their gender. LEAF is committed to advancing their substantive equality, consistent with our decades of advocacy to advance substantive gender equality for those who face gender-based discrimination.
*Some Two-Spirit people – an umbrella term encompassing gender and sexual diversity in many Indigenous communities – also experience gender-based discrimination. As a settler organization working through the Canadian legal system, LEAF will be conducting a learning process in consultation with Two-Spirit organizations and individuals to determine the appropriateness of including Two-Spirit folks in our mandate. LEAF strongly supports the creation of Indigenous Legal Orders. As legal systems based in Indigenous legal traditions, Indigenous Legal Orders have more potential to advance equality rights for Two-Spirit people than the colonial Canadian system does.
LEAF’s Strategic Plan 2021-2026
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