6/12/2023 0 Comments Folx transphobicExploring my Identity(ies): Interactive by Van Ethan Levy, LMFT But we can start by addressing internalized transphobia in ourselves, thus moving towards challenging it on a larger scale. Transphobia is deeply rooted in a cis-hetero, capitalist, western settler-colonial political system, and it will take a much more organized response to address than filling out a workbook. Interactively Challenging Internalized Transphobia Through Workbooks Fortunately, Hoffman-Fox has included a Self-Care Checklist on page xxxi in their workbook, reviewed in this article. I recommend that other TGNB therapists and clients working through these books take breaks and engage in self-care practices when needed. I encountered some difficulties in reading through these books because they hit close to home for me and in relation to the everyday trauma my TGNB clients face. This review comes from my perspective as a white, able-bodied, licensed clinical therapist and nonbinary art therapist. The resources listed in this article are a call to action to all providers offering care to the TGNB community my hope is that we can consider these readings to create a more inclusive and gender-just world in which TGNB folx can live fully. It is incumbent upon us to help ensure that our clients are offered LGBTQIA+ affirmative care in every aspect of their lives (Babine et al., 2019). In doing so, I encourage all of us to use our positions of power to educate community members including educators, employers, health care providers, and other support service staff who work with TGNB folx. I reviewed these resources for clinicians to help them address internalized transphobia this term is used, for the purposes of this article, to mean phobia toward and discrimination against trans binary and non-binary individuals. This results in transgender and gender nonbinary (TGNB) folx internalizing society’s gender-normative attitudes and lays the groundwork for them to develop negative attitudes about themselves and their communities, which can ultimately lead to poor mental health outcomes (Babine et al., 2019). Moving Towards Trans and Nonbinary-Affirmative Therapy PracticeĪs psychotherapists, we know that transphobia’s pervasive social impact affects our clients and our own internal worlds.
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