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Drawing on policy and program research, it notes that provincial efforts have not become a pervasive classroom planning element. 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Findings of this policy and programs research reveal that the work has been done by upper levels of the provincial education system, but the created programming has not translated into the classrooms as a ubiquitous element of planning for students’ learning opportunities or environment in their growth toward their personal identity. Greater effort is essential to support full potential in efficacy to the enriching of children of all ages in their journey of self-awareness.  \nHistorically speaking, educators have been a fundamental driver of social perspectives change, and thus it is essential that educators become more proactive in implementing and also advocating an affirmative approach to gender-fluid development in children and adolescents. Over at least the past decade, renowned researchers in child and adolescent development have found the traditional social constructs of gender roles to be detrimental to the well-being of gender-independent children. In response, Health Canada has introduced an evidence-based gender spectrum perspective of child and adolescent development. The Canadian Human Rights Act as amended in 2012 recognizes gender as an aspect of human diversity, equal to other characteristics such as race, religious beliefs, and cultural practices. Educators have dayto-day contact with children and their families and, in effect, have remarkable potential for influencing a sociocultural shift away from limited gender-binary perspectives and for providing knowledge toward broader awareness in validation of the value of the individual, regardless of gender-spectrum expression. Thus, gender-affirmative care models need to be integrated in the roles of educators, curriculum planning, and learning environments in schools as consistent best practice, rather than remaining exclusively a situational response approach.  \nLeading professionals who specialize in supporting families of gender-independent children and adolescents have published rigorous work regarding the sociocultural need for intentional deconstruction of gender-binary social roles to evolve toward a gender-diversity perspective (Ehrensaft, Glammettei, Storck, Tishelman, and Keo-Meier, 2018) . Gender development specialists such as Pyne (2014), Ehrensaft et al. (2016), and Edwards-Leeper, Leibowitz, Lurie, Lurie, & Sangganjanavanich (2017) advocate a shift in professional practice to affirmative-based policies supportive of gender expression variation as a naturally occurring phenomenon (Ehrensaft et al. , 2018) of self-identification. Their research points to an emphasis on adopting a multifaceted concept wherein gender may be fluid and not binary (Edwards-Leeper et al. , 2017) . These academics and their colleagues have become the public voices of the issues and obstacles, and even the dangers, faced by gender-expansive children and adolescents.  \nPyne’s (2014) research has evolved from his first-hand work with families and their children growing in exploration of gender roles, whom he describes as “gender independent” children (p. 1) . Pyne has been a significant advocate in the gradual shift of Canadian medical and mental health practices involving children variant in their gender development to using an affirming model, perhaps including some treatment elements, rather than solely a medical model. His perspective is embracing of the naturalness of gender discovery as part of human development. One of the overall messages from his work speaks of the change in focus for intervention being on the sociocultural context of the individual, rather than exclusively on the child as an element of the progress in gender diversity perception among professionals.  \nEhrensaft et al. 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