For Higher Education Clinicians/Staff/Faculty

Helping trans and gender nonbinary students feel more respected & affirmed.

• Trans Ally Common Missteps (Basic Rights Education Fund) PDF

• Family Acceptance Project: Supportive Families, Healthy Children: Supporting Students PDF

• LGBTcampus.org - Best Practices for Supporting Trans Students PDF

• Developmental Pathways to Trans Inclusion on College Campuses (ACPA – Napavalley.edu) PDF

• MA Trans Political Coalition: Serving Trans and GNC Students in Schools PDF

• Mad Maps for Oppression: PDF

Clinician Guidelines, Research & Reading

Treatment Standards, Models, & Decolonization Considerations

• Gender Affirming Care Guidelines

  • A Clinician’s Guide to Gender Affirming Care - Chang & colleagues (book)

  • APA Trans Care Guidelines

  • Trans Health Guidelines @ UCSF

  • Boston - Fenway Health Trans Care

  • WPATH Standards of Care Version 7

  Understanding Gender & Minority Stress

  • National Center for Trans Equality Discrimination Survey

  • Cathers (2018) Spectrum Model of Sex, Sexuality, & Gender

  • Gender Minority Stress & Resiliency Model (GMSR; Testa et al., 2015)

    • See also: Suicidal Ideation in Transgender People: Gender Minority Stress & Interpersonal Theory Factors (Testa et al., 2017)

  Decolonizing Gender & Moving Toward Liberation

  • Singh - Ted Talk

  • Singh, A. A. (2016). Moving from affirmation to liberation in psychological practice with transgender and gender nonconforming clients. American Psychologist, 71(8), 755–762. 

  • A zine about decolonizing gender

  • decolonizing trans/gender 101 - b. binaohan (book)

Training in Gender Affirming Care

Including the basics of affirming care, focused topics, & surgery assessment

A range of topics for mental health & medical providers:

• Coming again Spring 2022: A discussion group about race & gender. For white clinicians who work with the TGNB community. 

• Fenway Health Advancing Excellence in Transgender Health (offered every fall in Boston)

• Philadelphia Trans Wellness Conf (through Mazzoni every summer) - a professional track + free community track

• The Affirmative Couch: Training in LGBTQIAKP+ topics – more focused and advanced webinars + articles, e.g., self-compassion in young trans adults, minority stress & resilience, intersection of fat & trans, maintaining hope during Covid-19, etc

• WPATH Global Education Initiative Courses – US & Worldwide trainings (note: WPATH has some problematic history related to representation of trans BIPOC in their leadership + training)

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Surgery Assessment Focused:

• *COMING again, stay tuned*- I am offering an advanced surgery-focused training with particular attention to power dynamics for cis and white clinicians. Stay tuned, and reach out for more info.

• Best practices for mental health providers in providing gender affirming assessments for surgery referral letters. Free Webinar (45 min). Created by Sarah Eley, LICSW at Fenway Health.

• The Gender ASSET by Cold Meier St. Amand, PhD - an extensive course (includes workbook, CEUs, & PDF docs) - Note: This training is somewhat dated with a more extensive assessment process than what is typically clinically indicated for adults, but still excellent material!

• Note - more focused surgery trainings are also offered through the Fenway Health and WPATH trainings as well, though typically offered in conjunction with the larger conference