“Who Taught You That?” – Understanding Gender, Creating Affirming Spaces
Thursday, April 23 | 10:35am - 11:50am
Session Description: Does your organization serve transgender and gender non-conforming youth? Statistically, yes! Showing respect and care is important for everyone, and looks different for the trans and gender non-conforming community. Join us for an activity-based workshop to explore why gender seems so much more complicated recently, where ideas about manhood and womanhood come from, the relationship between the “rules” of gender and colonialism, what’s at stake for transgender and gender non-conforming youth, and how to create welcoming and affirming programs.
Learning Objectives:
- Name and identify the “rules” that the gender binary has created and how most people fall outside of those rules.
- Identify the ways the gender binary is a construct of colonialism and white supremacy, and how gender is enforced differently for different communities of color.
- Create action items to develop and maintain program environments that are affirming for transgender and gender-nonconforming youth.
Speakers: Lex Gavin
About the Speakers: Lex Gavin has spent the last decade formally training adult service providers on how to responsibly and responsively work with queer and trans communities, particularly teens. They moved through education and advocacy programs as a youth to then work in queer and trans youth services, homeless youth services, and youth mental health services with a focus on suicide prevention. Lex once held a séance for John Candy, might (but probably doesn’t) have mad cow disease, and can read upside down.
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