Copy of Trans-Inclusive Trauma Informed Care

Trans-Inclusive Trauma Informed Care

Institutional Experiences

NOW WHAT? Building Institutional Competency

WHAT? Unique Factors in Transgender Experience

SO WHAT? Development, Derailment, and Traumatic Events

Key Factors in (Trans) Experience

Structural Concerns

The Self In Relationship

Housing and Homelessness

Trauma, Development, and The Brain(s)

Central Relationships

Social Services

Personal Concerns

*Personal/Internal: Sense of self

*Social/Familial: Important others

*Institutional: Life-shaping organizations

*Intake: Intros and Documents (internal and external--only 1/5 can change all, 1/3 have changed none)

*Residential Set-Up

*AM I ALLOWED HERE?

*What do you want to know about me? Why do you need to?

*Connected institutions

*Family ties, shared experience, and coping

*Ability to name and recognize oneself--and assume mutual understanding

*Exposure to social/cultural models

*Freedom to explore and experiment

*19% have been denied housing; 11% evicted; and 19% have been homeless

*29% turned away from homeless shelters; 42% forced to stay in facilities designated for the wrong gender; 12% had sex with someone to access housing

*55% were harassed; 25% physically assaulted; 22% sexually assaulted

*Am I any safer here?

*Other clients/residents

*"Niceness" versus authenticity

*Awareness of/openness to trans-specific concerns

*Where do I go from here?

*Family of origin: 19% experience violence; 40%, relational cut-off

*Friends: 58% lost close friendships

*Romantic partners: 45% lost a relationship because of trans ID

*Children: 29% cut off by other parent; 30% rejected by child; 13% by court-based custody decision

*While the news is less dire with specific reference to social services similar to those provided by the YWCA--most trans folks won't be consulting this graph before making a call! A total of 44% report exclusion or denial of services in public accommodations, overall.

*...all three of them!

*brainstem, limbic system, cortex

*relational neurobiology: long-term impacts on trauma sensitivity

*stress hormones and you

*developmental neuroplasticity