How can counselors and other health professionals acknowledge, include, and support non-binary (N... more How can counselors and other health professionals acknowledge, include, and support non-binary (NB), genderqueer (GQ), and other gender non-conforming people? This study grew from the needs of a peer support group for nonbinary and genderqueer people in Portland, Oregon, USA, and our wish to share our insights with the world. Based on our personal experiences of erasure, marginalization, invisibility, and being misunderstood and trivialized within mainstream cisheteropatriarchal culture and within the LGBTQ and trans communities, we want to make concrete recommendations for improving services for people like us 1. This article blends an activist approach with a social science research project, with the hope that we will be able to leverage some of the power of scientific discourse in order to make change. We have tried to write for lay and professional audiences, and we hope that readers will bear with us as they navigate this hybrid text. In the summer of 2017, we decided to conduct a participatory action research study using a qualitative thematic analysis method (Braun and Clarke 1 (Sasha Strong) am the primary author of this research report, and I am the member of our group with the most formal training in qualitative research. In this report, I use 'we' when I am talking about what I sense is the collective voice of our research group based in our findings, and 'I' when I am speaking from my personal perspective as a researcher and clinician. Because our study is community-based, yet informed by scholarship and professional practice, in this report, I try to walk the line between scholarly language and plain speech, so that our findings can be easily put to use in counseling and healthcare by people from all walks of life.
Trans Health: International Perspectives on Care for Trans Communities, 2022
How can counselors and other health professionals acknowledge, include, and support non-binary (N... more How can counselors and other health professionals acknowledge, include, and support non-binary (NB), genderqueer (GQ), and other gender non-conforming people? This study grew from the needs of a peer support group for non- binary and genderqueer people in Portland, Oregon, USA, and our wish to share our insights with the world. Based on our personal experiences of era- sure, marginalization, invisibility, and being misunderstood and trivialized within mainstream cisheteropatriarchal culture and within the LGBTQ and trans communities, we want to make concrete recommendations for improving services for people like us. This article blends an activist approach with a social science research project, with the hope that we will be able to leverage some of the power of scientific discourse in order to make change. We have tried to write for lay and professional audiences, and we hope that readers will bear with us as they navigate this hybrid text.
How can counselors and other health professionals acknowledge, include, and support non-binary (N... more How can counselors and other health professionals acknowledge, include, and support non-binary (NB), genderqueer (GQ), and other gender non-conforming people? This study grew from the needs of a peer support group for nonbinary and genderqueer people in Portland, Oregon, USA, and our wish to share our insights with the world. Based on our personal experiences of erasure, marginalization, invisibility, and being misunderstood and trivialized within mainstream cisheteropatriarchal culture and within the LGBTQ and trans communities, we want to make concrete recommendations for improving services for people like us 1. This article blends an activist approach with a social science research project, with the hope that we will be able to leverage some of the power of scientific discourse in order to make change. We have tried to write for lay and professional audiences, and we hope that readers will bear with us as they navigate this hybrid text. In the summer of 2017, we decided to conduct a participatory action research study using a qualitative thematic analysis method (Braun and Clarke 1 (Sasha Strong) am the primary author of this research report, and I am the member of our group with the most formal training in qualitative research. In this report, I use 'we' when I am talking about what I sense is the collective voice of our research group based in our findings, and 'I' when I am speaking from my personal perspective as a researcher and clinician. Because our study is community-based, yet informed by scholarship and professional practice, in this report, I try to walk the line between scholarly language and plain speech, so that our findings can be easily put to use in counseling and healthcare by people from all walks of life.
Trans Health: International Perspectives on Care for Trans Communities, 2022
How can counselors and other health professionals acknowledge, include, and support non-binary (N... more How can counselors and other health professionals acknowledge, include, and support non-binary (NB), genderqueer (GQ), and other gender non-conforming people? This study grew from the needs of a peer support group for non- binary and genderqueer people in Portland, Oregon, USA, and our wish to share our insights with the world. Based on our personal experiences of era- sure, marginalization, invisibility, and being misunderstood and trivialized within mainstream cisheteropatriarchal culture and within the LGBTQ and trans communities, we want to make concrete recommendations for improving services for people like us. This article blends an activist approach with a social science research project, with the hope that we will be able to leverage some of the power of scientific discourse in order to make change. We have tried to write for lay and professional audiences, and we hope that readers will bear with us as they navigate this hybrid text.
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