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Teaching transgender topics

5/29/2019

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I had the good fortune to spend 2 days last week in an excellent training on teaching transgender & gender non-binary topics with trainers from The Teaching Transgender Toolkit.

Full-Spectrum Doula Circle courses have always been explicitly trans-welcoming & I provide some resources to help doulas prepare to support trans clients. After taking this training, I'm updating best practices & making some small but important changes to my existing offerings. I'm also developing a new workshop focused specifically on providing support for trans & non-binary clients. More info about this as it emerges.

Trans & non-binary folks often avoid or delay accessing healthcare because of misgendering, microaggressions, and outright hostility. I think we have an obligation as doulas to develop skills & knowledge to be able to support trans & non-binary clients with kindness & sensitivity.


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    Sarah Whedon,
    ​Full-Spectrum Doula Circle

    Doulas traditionally provide
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    non-medical, empowering support for birth. Full-spectrum doulas provide the same kind of support for the
    full spectrum of pregnancy outcomes, including abortion.


    We do this to create a culture of compassion, love, and justice in which all people have the freedom and resources they need to make free choices about their bodies and their families.

    Full-Spectrum Doula Circle connects abortion/full-spectrum doulas and other reproductive support people
    with information, education, and each other, to increase skills, decrease burnout, and deepen our wells of support,
    with an emphasis on providing digital resources to connect doulas who are geographically dispersed.

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