Gender Identity

How can we approach gender identity with dignity, curiosity and care?

Gender identity may be deeply personal, a settled part of life or something you choose to keep private. If you want to speak about your experience, you deserve someone who listens to your words without making you defend your humanity. Curiosity should leave you room to share, decline or take your time.

Personal identity, everyday treatment, legal categories, medical decisions and rules for particular settings raise different questions. Those decisions need relevant evidence and attention to the people affected. They can be discussed precisely while maintaining dignity and freedom from humiliation or violence. A personal conversation need not become a debate about every public question attached to the subject.

A question to sit with (optional): What kind of conversation is wanted here, and how can we make room for the person’s experience and privacy?