Transgender Concerns Working Group Working Group Members Michael

Transgender Concerns Working Group

Working Group Members • • • • Michael Loewy Nicholas Denton Heather Dales-Murray Heather Aidala Anne Bartone Shannon Chavez Korell Ryan Cheperka Carmen Cruz Franco Dispenza Stacie Fishell Kristee Haggins Jack Lockwood Alessandra Urbano Mo White Kendra Saunders • • • • Shana Hamilton Tania Israel Sharalyn Jordan Kimberly Jorgensen David Loran Stella Nelms Emily Nisley Parrish Paul Daniel Walinsky Theo Burnes Bobby Kizer Yung-Lung Chen Christine Henry David Perry Danielle Duplassie

Major Issues Discussed • Increased self-awareness of transphobia needed - individual, supervisor, faculty • Training - Need for infusion into courses, practica/internship, research • How to confront transphobia within Division 17/�APA • Research - Need for best practices (e. g. , not up-to-date, need alternative methods) • Community - Need for more involvement and commitment of senior colleagues in order to make change

Major Issues Discussed • Need for web-based resources (e. g. , best practice guidelines, research) • Need for strength-based approaches to trans practice and research (e. g. , assessment tools - MMPI - problematic, confront medical model, inclusion of gender identity in DSM? ) • Students/others with less power having to educate others with more power (e. g. , training directors, advisors) and confront transphobia • Need trans-ally development and support • Micro and macroaggressions - verbal and physical assault

Goals/Outcomes for Future Self-Awareness of Transgender Concerns (learning --> action) • Comprehensive list of transgender resources including intersectionality (e. g. , reading, films, websites) • Engaging/immersing one’s self in experiential activities (e. g. , dialogue groups, “assumptions/biases” paper to explore gender privilege) • Accept personal responsibility to implement change (e. g. , finding your voice)

Goals/Outcomes for Future Training on Transgender Concerns • Incorporate into APA-accreditation • Training module • Inclusion in social justice curriculum • Trans-affirmative internship sites • Best practice guidelines • Supervision competency standards • Use technology to increase accessibility to resources • Special journal issue on supervision/training issues

Goals/Outcomes for Future Research - Transgender Concerns • JCP Special issue on conducting trans-inclusive experience (e. g. , comprehensive lit review, qual and quan guidelines, researcher reflexivity, participant/consumer reflexivity) • Guidelines that promote intersectionality in all counseling psychology (e. g. , multidimensons of demographic identity)

Goals/Outcomes for Future Assessment issues with transgender people • Clinical interviewing (e. g. , create semi-structured interview questions, address problems with forms, therapist training, reflexivity, awareness) • DSM - do not confound trans with mental health and gender with sexual disorders • Testing (e. g. , renorming assessments for trans folks, develop measures for research with focus on resilience, writing position papers on test administration/interpretation)

Goals/Outcomes for Future Working with Div 17/APA Power-Holders on Transgender Concerns • You are invited!! - joint meeting of Div 17, 44, 35, 51 (powerholders) at APA in Boston • Creating a home for this working group on trans issues • Student hour at APA - how to make a difference when you don’t have the power • Media attention APA-wide in Monitor • Notation that gender identity is in the ethical code - so guidelines are there for accountability

Next Steps & Opportunities for Involvement • Google group • Working in 5 sub-groups • Creating a “home” for working group in SLGBTA/Div 17 • Meeting again at APA Boston - joint meeting • Securing program time at APA Boston

Contact Information for Getting Involved • lore m. dickey • Anneliese Singh • Pearl S. Chang lore. dickey@gmail. com nanakikaur@yahoo. com pearl. heart@gmail. com