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Celebrating Gender Expansiveness: Taking Gender-Affirming Care Beyond Treatment of Gender Dysphoria

CE Hours 1

About this course

Treatment of gender expansive clients has become a hot button issue in the past several years. Clinicians are asked to be gatekeepers for identity-affirming and often life-saving medical procedures, and many therapists are, understandably, nervous about offering care to this population. But work with trans, nonbinary, and other gender expansive clients can be so rewarding and so meaningful – both for the client and the clinician alike. In addition to addressing gender dysphoria, work with this population should involve celebrations of gender euphoria and the freedom that comes with living authentically in our truth. In this workshop, we will cover the basics of gender-affirming care from a celebratory and gender-alignment lens.

Learning Objectives

  • Describe several barriers to treatment for gender expansive clients.
  • Name the possible elements of social, physical, medical, and internal transitions in which clients may choose to engage.
  • Identify 3 ways that clinicians can provide celebratory and affirming experiences for clients BEFORE the intake appointment.
  • Identify 4 potential pitfalls to avoid in working with gender expansive clients.

Learning Levels

  • All levels

Target Audience

This educational activity is intended for behavioral health professionals, including Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, and MFT's.

Course Instructor(s)

  • Rachel W. Friendly, PhD

    Rachel W. Friendly, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist practicing in CA, MA, VA, and Washington DC. She received her Ph.D. from Clark University and spent the next decade and a half working in university counseling centers, where she served in both staff psychologist and training director roles all over the East and West coasts of the US. She is currently building a private practice based out of Fairfax, VA, specializing in women’s issues, college and graduate student mental health, and supporting the queer and gender expansive communities.

Disclosure

DISCLOSURE OF RELEVANT FINANCIAL RELATIONSHIPS CE Learning Systems adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Medical Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity ― including faculty, planners, reviewers, or others ― are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities (formerly known as commercial interests). The following relevant financial relationships have been disclosed by this activity’s planners, faculty, and the reviewer: PLANNERS AND REVIEWER The planners of this activity have reported that they have no relevant financial relationships. FACULTY The faculty of this activity have reported that they have no relevant financial relationships.

References

  • Nath, R., Matthews, D. D., DeChants, J. P., Hobaica, S., Clark, C. M., Taylor, A. B., & Muñoz, G. (2024). US national survey on the mental health of LGBTQ+ young people. West Hollywood, California: The Trevor Project.
  • Brewster, M., & Velez, B. (2024). Data reveals new insights on transgender workplace experiences. Teachers College, Columbia University News You Can Use. https://www.tc.columbia.edu/articles/2024/april/data-reveals-new-insights-on-transgender-workplace-experiences/
  • Wagner, C. (2019). 10 Best Practices to Make LGBTQ+ Attendees Feel Welcome. PCMA Convene. https://www.pcma.org/10-best-practices-make-lgbtq-attendees-feel-welcome/
  • Ari, M. (n.d.). Transgender care: Affirming and celebratory practices. Simple Practice Learning.
  • Shipherd, J. C., Green, K. E., & Abramovitz, S. (2010). Transgender clients: Identifying and minimizing barriers to mental health treatment. Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health, 14(2), 94-108.
  • Minkin, R., & Brown, A. (2021). Rising shares of US adults know someone who is transgender or goes by gender-neutral pronouns. Pew Research Center, 27.
  • Berrian, K., Exsted, M. D., Lampe, N. M., Pease, S. L., & Akré, E. L. (2025). Barriers to quality healthcare among transgender and gender nonconforming adults. Health services research, 60(1), e14362. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6773.14362
  • Tordoff, D. M., Wanta, J. W., Collin, A., Stepney, C., Inwards-Breland, D. J., & Ahrens, K. (2022). Mental health outcomes in transgender and nonbinary youths receiving gender-affirming care. JAMA network open, 5(2), e220978-e220978.
  • Kearns, S., Kroll, T., O'Shea, D., & Neff, K. (2021). Experiences of transgender and non-binary youth accessing gender-affirming care: A systematic review and meta-ethnography. PloS one, 16(9), e0257194. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257194

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Content

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    • Audio recording
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Celebrating Gender Expansiveness: Taking Gender-Affirming Care Beyond Treatment of Gender Dysphoria
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    Mar 28th, 2025

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