This workshop is a brief introduction to an enormous field of experience, joy, oppression, history, and relationship. This class doesn’t offer everything. It obviously doesn’t singlehandedly heal oppression. It doesn’t offer easy answers about how to be a good ally, and it doesn’t offer boxes to check relative to deep, ongoing engagement with solidarity and equity where there is a lot of ambiguity and no guarantees. I don’t know what your journey is relative to trans issues, now or in the future. I’m also very aware that there are aspects of this topic which require more trust and container-building than the context of this intro workshop - or I might just not be the right person or it might not be the right environment to accompany you through specific issues. I deeply appreciate the online workshop I attended with Dr. Kesha Fikes where she prefaced the workshop with saying that this is not a community, we don’t have community agreements, we don’t have a history of trust and relationship together; this is a webinar. This is why I’m also offering other spaces for connection and other kinds of materials and supports (see Further Information and Support and Class Handouts below). Also know that, while these workshops can’t begin to meet the needs that we all have around gender justice and understanding, I am really here for your curiosity and solidarity around this issue, and I hold that we can all contribute to creating a more equitable, loving world.