Florence Ashley

Florence is a transfeminine doctoral student at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. As part of their doctorate, they are also completing a Collaborative Specialization in Bioethics with the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics. Prior to joining the SJD program, Florence served as the first openly transfeminine clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada, working in the chambers of Justice Sheilah Martin (2019-2020). Florence sits on the editorial board of the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies, and is the author of Banning Transgender Conversion Practices: A Legal and Policy Analysis (UBC Press, 2022).