It was also charged with developing recommendations for education, professional training and further research into transgenderism, and proposing how APA can best meet the needs of psychologists and students who identify as transgender or gender-variant. " Report by the Task Force on Gender Identity and Gender Variance," a six-member task force spent more than two years reviewing the scientific literature, as well as APA policies regarding transgender issues.Online CE course, Foundations for Psychological Practice with Transgender & Gender Nonconforming Clients, providing basic information about trans-affirmative approaches to research, supervision and clinical work (1 credit).Additional APA resources for psychologists, students and the general public include the following: APA has made significant contributions to help meet the need, most recently through the adoption of the August 2015 " Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming People " (PDF, 616.32KB) intended to help professionals and others better understand the lifespan development, stigma, discrimination and barriers to care faced by transgender and gender nonconforming people. The International Transgender Day of Remembrance website has information about event locations and also lists scores of the many trans men and women who lost their lives so far in 2016. Around the world, communities have planned vigils to come together and remember those who have died in the past year. It is an opportunity not only to pause to remember those we have lost, but to help raise awareness about the persistent stigma and discrimination experienced by this community, and to help do something about it.
Transgender Day of Remembrance is an opportunity for communities to come together and remember transgender and gender-nonconforming people who have been murdered, often very brutally, for challenging ideas about what it means to be male or female, or something else. By the Office on Sexual Orientation and Gender DiversityĪ time to honor the memory of those whose lives have been lost in acts of anti-transgender violence.
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