Trans Awareness: The Basics

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Description
With an estimated 1% of the population falling somewhere on the broad “trans” spectrum, public facing organisations are likely to encounter a range of diverse trans people in the course of their professional work. Employers, too, need to be ready and able to welcome, include and support trans people as part of their workforce.

This session is a great place to start if you have limited time as it packs a lot in. It develops good levels of confidence in a relatively short session.

The core presentation will

• Set the wider context for trans identities - how sex, gender and sexual orientation interact
• Explore key terms and uses of language
• Offer basic grounding in the legislation around the rights and responsibilities around trans identities
• Begin to explore how an organisation can ensure it is being trans-inclusive
• Provide links to a wide range of resources

These shorter session is a good way to introduce the subject to a wider audience who need basic awareness, and/or where very limited time is available.

The Q&A provides an important interactive element, enabling people to bring the focus of the session onto the key issues that matter to them and particular questions they might have.

Expectations and Mutual Commitment
We make a commitment to delivering a professional, high quality training or consultancy experience for you and we ask for your support in return to enable us to do this. Our commitment to you is to provide a professional service by being well-prepared for the session we have agreed to deliver; punctual; understanding of your current circumstances / level of awareness; open to and respectful of your questions; and by bringing a positive approach. In return, we expect all attendees to make an effort to engage with the session or service we provide, to arrive punctually and stay for the whole session (unless previously arranged / an emergency arises) and to respect our trainers / consultants.

Trainer
Amber Sloman (them/they)

Fees
£5 for CIfA Members

Bursary places are available. To apply, email alex.llewellyn@archaeologists.net for information.

About Gendered Intelligence

We are a trans led charity working directly with some 500 young trans and gender questioning people from diverse backgrounds across the course of a year, primarily through our youth groups and 1:1 mentoring services.  Their experiences inform our wider work.

We train widely across all settings and to date have delivered training to over 25,000 professionals. We have worked, for example, in a variety of local authority settings, educational settings including schools, colleges, universities, large international commercial organisations, arts settings, small charities, foster care / children's home settings, CAMHS and secure mental health settings, residential clinics, as well as across the wider statutory, not-for-profit and commercial sectors.

All our trainers are professional trainers/facilitators who are also trans identified, and who have extensive grassroots trans-community experience (biographies available on request).

They managed the time and pace of the session very well. They created a positive and inclusive environment that was very conducive to learning and personal growth. I think today was a great foundation for the team to be able to improve our work and ensure that our services, approach, communication and organisation becomes a more inclusive organisation
Vic, CEO, Become, 2021

Agenda
TBC

Additional information
The event start/end times indicated below are for British Summer Time (GMT + 1). The Zoom link will be sent out to all registrants the morning of the event.

Contact us
If you have any questions at all or require any assistance in registering or accessing this event, please contact the CIfA Events team: conference@archaeologists.net