What's the difference between gender and sexuality?

What does a campaign, movement and world that empowers trans people look like?

 

Join facilitators Sophia Thomas (Trans Leeds) and Emma Simpson (Simpson Training) to get the answers to these questions and explore the relationship between gender, transition, power and discrimination.

 

Over the course of this half day workshop, participants will:

 

• Understand the meaning of words like trans, cis and non-binary

• Recognise the difference between the body you have and the gender you are

• Explore how Western society has framed and explained gender over the centuries

• Learn the difference between gender and sexuality

• Discuss the struggles and barriers around gender, and their intersections with issues like austerity and climate change

• Hear about lived experience of gender in transition

• Develop active listening skills

• Become empowered to embed anti-gender discrimination practice into our communities, activist spaces and campaigns

 

Participants will leave the workshop better informed allies to the trans community and ready to transform their own communities, campaigns or movements into spaces more open, more supporting and more empowering for trans people.

 

About the trainers and organisers:

 

Emma Simpson is a trans non-binary person who has been delivering training on gender for the last 3 years. Emma is especially interested in gender’s relationship with climate, natural resources and the politics surrounding climate change. They have worked with Friends of the Earth Europe, Reclaim the Power, Frack Free UK and Ulex to create gender focused approaches to climate and social justice activism. Emma also delivers training to schools, health practioners and the general public about being trans and how to be a good ally. They are writing a book about gender diversity in schools and aspire to one day go to space and talk about gender there.