Understanding Transgender Workers
Course Outline
4 hours total
 

• Presenter introduces her/himself.
• Icebreaker - tell a joke or something.
• Course overview. Show this outline (or abbreviated version of it.)
  (10 minutes so far.)
• Foundations (30 min total)
• Definitions
• Hand-out list of definitions
• Cover major definitions (start with "Transgender")
• Contrast Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Gender Expression/Role
• Examples (with photos, some explanation of each)
• Transsexuals (M2F and F2M)
• Crossdressers
• Intersexuals
• etc, briefly (at most one example each, possibly including:)
• Drag Queen
• Female Impersonator
• Butch
• Feminine gay man
• Andrygyne (Pat from SNL)
• Class exercise. (15 min)
• Fetal development (10 min)
• HGBSOC and Transition Process
• Transitioning in the Workplace (10-15 min for HGBSOC and this)
• Being Supportive (5 min)
• Class exercise. (15 minutes leading into break)
• (break at 2 hour point)
• Panel Discussion - each panelist tells personal story (10 min each)
• Q&A

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• Updated August 5, 1999