In 2019, Ashley became a clerk at the
Supreme Court of Canada, where they worked in the chambers of Justice
Sheilah Martin. During the same year, the
Canadian Bar Association awarded Ashley the SOGIC Hero Award. Ashley coined the term
gender modality in 2022. In 2022, Ashley published
Banning transgender conversion practices: a legal and policy analysis, a book about
conversion therapy for transgender people. It studies how these therapies be legally banned, and what impact such bans would have on countries that decided to implement them. Ashley believes that conversion therapy needs to disappear and that a formal ban improves the situation without fully solving the issue. They cite the
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto as an example, saying that the practices there were so bad that they served as a precedent to get conversion therapy banned in the province of Ontario.'' On September 14, 2025, Ashley was placed on non-disciplinary administrative leave due to comments they made on social media about the
assassination of Charlie Kirk. According to a statement from the University of Alberta, the suspension was taken while a review was conducted related to concerns about community safety. Ashley returned to work a week later on September 22, after the review concluded there was "no imminent risk associated with this incident." Ashley later criticized the suspension and argued their statements fell within the scope of academic freedom and freedom of expression. ==Selected academic publications==