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Online Support Space for Educators Working with Gender Diversity

20/7/2021

Join us for the establishment of a support space for teachers and school leadership in South Africa working with and transforming schools with regards to gender diversity (transgender, non-binary, gender exploring, gender creative, and gender non-conforming identities and expressions).

Facilitated by Melinda Swift (parent of a transgender adolescent) and Jonathan Bosworth (counselling psychologist).

Tuesday 10 August 2021 19h30-21h00 (Initial meeting)
Tuesday 14 September 2021 2021 19h30-21h00
Tuesday 12 October 2021 19h30-21h00
Tuesday 9 November 2021 19h30-21h00

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Transgender Healthcare 101

25/6/2021

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A few years ago Iranti interviewed me for a series of videos to introduce healthcare professionals to gender affirming healthcare. These videos were recently debuted on YouTube:

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Upcoming Online Ethics Workshop: Gender Affirming Care with Children

21/5/2021

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Upcoming online workshop focussing on the ethics of working with gender diverse (gender non-conforming, transgender and non-binary) children and adolescents.

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Gender Diversity in Your Classroom Webinars

25/3/2021

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I have recently partnered with Explorare and Matimba to hold workshops to empower teachers to create inclusive and emotionally safe classroom and school environments with regards to gender diversity.

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Gender Diversity Continued: What is in the best interest of the child and adolescent?

6/10/2020

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Below are the details of the upcoming workshop at which I will be presenting, and chairing a panel discussion.

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Support Group for Parents and Caregivers of Gender Diverse Youth

5/8/2019

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Iranti, Matimba, GALA, a determined parent and myself are working at creating a support space for parents and caregivers of transgender and gender diverse youth as well as a social space for the youth.

Please share the event and flyer with anyone whom may be interested.

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Transgender Medical Rights

29/5/2019

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I was recently interview by eNCA Checkpoint on transgender medical rights.

Sections of the interview can be seen in part two of the episode:

Part one can be viewed here:

Please note that I am a counselling psychologist, not a clinical psychologist as is quoted in the show.

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NoMo: Non-Monogamies and Polyamory Reading Group

7/5/2019

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NoMo is a new Johannesburg-based reading group for mental healthcare professionals. The group aims to focus both on practical work with clients that practice polyamory and consensual non-monogamy (in an affirmative/non-pathologising way) as well as to critically unpack monogamy and other forms of normativity (such as cis-heteronormativity) from different critical theoretical perspectives (for instance queer and feminist studies). The groups meets every second Wednesday of the month from 19h30 t0 21h30 in Melville.

If you are interested or know colleagues who may be interested please email me on [email protected].

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Recommended Listening: New Family Values

6/2/2019

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A large focus of my practice is helping individuals, couples and families understand what works best for them and how to navigate identities and ways of being that have not traditionally been understood or accepted. These are often in the form of diverse sexual orientations (lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, asexual), less conventional relationship orientations (polyamory and consensual non-monogamies) and varied gender identities (transgender, non-binary). However, family structures that differ from "two (first-time) married, heterosexual parents" are often a lot more common than we may assume and hence many of us are currently finding our way in "non-traditional" families or being challenged to re-conceptualise what we consider to be family.

The audiobook, New Family Values, by psychologist and writer Andrew Solomon has really helped me to continue to rethink my notions of family. The book has many useful narratives and ideas about different forms of family - same sex parents, single parents, surrogacy, adoption, foster care, multi-parent families, polyamorous families, childless families and child-free families to name a few - and how the law and societal views may lag behind in accommodating this diversity.

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New Johannesburg-based Support Group for Gender Diverse People

11/1/2019

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Be True 2 Me is a new Johannesburg-based support group for gender diverse people (transgender, non-binary, non-conforming or questioning). Partners, spouses and cisgender allies as well as parents of gender diverse children are also welcome to attend meetings. Furthermore, the group plans to have conversation evenings open to wider audiences, including professionals.

Be True 2 Me meets in Forest Town (near the Johannesburg Zoo) every second Wednesday and for a social once every quarter.

The group can be contacted in the following ways:
Facebook Group
Web Site
WhatsApp: +27 81 455 1183
Email: [email protected]

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Online Support Space for Educators Working with Gender Diversity

Transgender Healthcare 101

Upcoming Online Ethics Workshop: Gender Affirming Care with Children

Gender Diversity in Your Classroom Webinars

Gender Diversity Continued: What is in the best interest of the child and adolescent?

Support Group for Parents and Caregivers of Gender Diverse Youth

Transgender Medical Rights

NoMo: Non-Monogamies and Polyamory Reading Group

Recommended Listening: New Family Values

New Johannesburg-based Support Group for Gender Diverse People

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