A seminar about mediating with transgender and gender variant adults and children.
Over the last ten years transgender and gender variant people have become more visible. Family mediators may well find themselves mediating with families where one of the participants’ gender transition has been a significant factor in the breakdown of their relationship. They may be conducting child inclusive mediation with young people who identify as trans or gender variant. Working empathetically with such families requires an understanding of the issues around gender variance and the emotional and other pressures that they are likely to experience.
The seminar will help family mediators deepen their understanding of transgender issues in a way which will equip them to work more confidentially with transgender adults and their former partners and with trans young people and their families.
In doing this we will consider some of the concepts and language used by trans and gender variant people to understand their gender identity and expression; the medical and social implications of transition for both children, young people and adults, and the emotional and practical pressures which effect trans and gender variant people and their families.
28th April 2021, 12-2pm, with Nicky von Benzon
£40 / participant