1. Creating Supportive Environments for LGBTQ Students
Missy Sturtevant, LCSW
Director and Founder
MaeBright Group, LLC
Consultant with the Safe Schools Program for LGBTQ Students
Cultural competency piece – learn more about this population

2. Introductions 3 good things from the last 24 hours
Define the word transgender
Introductions

3. Adapted from original concept: González, Prell, Rivas, Schwartz
GSA story?
Adapted from original concept: González, Prell, Rivas, Schwartz

4. Adapted from: itspronouncedmetrosexual.com
Sexual Orientation
Gay/Lesbian
Bisexual/ Pansexual
Straight
We make assumptions about gender expression
Adapted from: itspronouncedmetrosexual.com

5. Adapted from: itspronouncedmetrosexual.com
Sexual Orientation
Gay/Lesbian
Bisexual/ Pansexual
Straight
Assigned Sex at Birth
Male
Intersex
Female
We make assumptions about gender expression
Adapted from: itspronouncedmetrosexual.com

6. Adapted from: itspronouncedmetrosexual.com
Sexual Orientation
Gay/Lesbian
Bisexual/ Pansexual
Straight
Assigned Sex at Birth
Male
Intersex
Female
Gender Identity
Man
Non-binary
Woman
We make assumptions about gender expression
Adapted from: itspronouncedmetrosexual.com

7. Adapted from: itspronouncedmetrosexual.com
Sexual Orientation
Gay/Lesbian
Bisexual/ Pansexual
Straight
Assigned Sex at Birth
Male
Intersex
Female
Gender Identity
Man
Non-binary
Woman
Gender Expression
Masculine
Androgynous
Feminine
We make assumptions about gender expression
Adapted from: itspronouncedmetrosexual.com

8. Assigned Sex at Birth does not determine Gender Expression

9. Gender Identity is different than Assigned Sex at Birth

10. Transgender Identities
transgender woman / trans girl / woman / girl
transgender man / trans guy / man / guy / boy
gender variant / gender fluid / genderqueer

11. Social Transition Medical
affirming name + pronouns
clothing + finding support +
gendered spaces + self-identification
Social
Transition
Medical
hormone replacement therapy (HRT) affirming surgeries + hormone suppressing medication
What it entails – social – name, pronouns, clothing, self identification
Medical – HRT, surgery, hormone suppression (don’t have to spend a lot of time on)

12. Transgender is not a Sexual Orientation
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual
Transgender
Transgender is not a Sexual Orientation

13. Queer
Queer
Identity
Community

14. Speaker

15. Chapter 76, Section 5 The MA Student Anti-discrimination Law
No person shall be excluded from or discriminated against in admission to a public school of any town, or in obtaining the advantages, privileges and courses of study of such public school on account of race, color, sex, gender identity, religion, national origin or sexual orientation.

16. MA Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Guidance on Gender Identity
Name, gender marker, and record changes
Bathrooms and locker rooms
Confidentiality
Athletics
Gendered practices

17. Hurtful Language
Stop it. Name it. Claim it.
That’s so gay
No homo

18. Questions from students and parents

19. Micro-aggression
Micro-affirmation

20. That you want to work on
You know you will be great at
One
Thing

21. Missy Sturtevant, LCSW missy@maebright.com
Questions
Missy Sturtevant, LCSW
MaeBright Group, LLC