Transgender Resources

I would like to proudly announce the formation of the Transgender Committee in ALGBTIC (Association for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues in Counseling). The Transgender Committee is comprised of clinical practitioners, dedicated educators, and transgender people who are working together to provide an understanding of the unique social and counseling needs of transgender people within our profession. We are working closely with the ALGBTIC Board to ensure that our division develops a strong advocacy and education voice on transgender concerns, as well as to ensure that our division adds the “T” in a meaningful way to our division’s name. 

This far, we have coordinated efforts via email and telephone conversations to determine how each member wishes to contribute and what unique strengths each one brings to the challenge laid out before us as counseling professionals in working with transgender people. Current projects of the Transgender Committee are: writing articles on transgender concerns, developing programming on transgender issues, and working with the ALGBTIC board to create a trans-positive space in our division.

To date, we have achieved an agreement from four committee members (Julia Hosea, Don Sidelinker, Denise Pickering, Manivong Ratts) to devote one hour of time to conference calls every 1-2 months, in addition to working on individual projects between conference call meetings. Please email Anneliese Singh at nanakikaur@yahoo.com if you are interested in working with this committee.

~Submitted by Done Sidelinker, ALGBTIC/Transgender Committee