Speaking of Transgender: Everybody Changes

Certification Course in Respecting Gender Diversity in Changing Rooms

Created by: Scott Turner Schofield
Gender Diversity Trainer, Speaker, and Subject Matter Expert

What Will I Learn?

• Learn new and relevant information about gender diversity and transgender people.
• The most up-to-date vocabulary about gender diversity.
• How to treat gender diverse individuals with respect.
• How to make gender diverse people safer and more welcome in recreational facilities.
• Media-made stereotypes vs. actual threats about transgender people in bathrooms and changing rooms.
• Harassment: what it looks like and how to address it.
• Addressing, respecting, and meeting the needs the concerns of uncomfortable, alarmed, or angry guests.
• Enforcing policies respecting locker room usage by gender diverse people.

Requirements

• No knowledge or tools are required, only a willingness to learn.

Target audience

• Front line staff in recreational facilities
• Managers in recreational facilities
• Life guards
• Membership coordinators at recreational facilities
• Gym teachers
• Coaches
• Anybody who is nervous about the topic of transgender people using shared facilities.
• Anyone interested in being a more informed ally.