Training & Workshops

FEDUP is here to help make your practice or treatment facility more gender-literate and enable you to provide more informed, comprehensive care to trans and gender-diverse clients. Our trainings and workshops are designed to inform the way you train future care providers at your organization or institution. Trans and gender-diverse communities are often well-networked and build community power by sharing information regarding care providers, thus “If you build gender-literate and trans-affirming healing spaces, they will come!”

What We Offer

  • Trans cultural competency training and greater familiarity with language surrounding gender and transition, as well as tips on deploying gender-inclusive language in your media and publications

  • Best practices in regard to using names and pronouns

  • Training in facilitating restroom comfort

  • A better understanding of body image concerns in trans and gender-diverse patients/clients

  • Insight into why trans and non-binary people are at greater risk for developing eating disorders (beyond existing research conclusions of 'suppressing biological sex'); interplay between dysphoria and dysmorphia and situating EDs in a social justice context

  • How to address issues facing people in marginalized communities (including race, class, sexuality, and ability.)

  • How to undermine gatekeeping and barriers to healthcare by writing 'gender letters' and/or prescribing hormones for your clients/patients under informed consent laws

  • Technical assistance regarding making intake forms gender-literate

  • Better understanding of trans support systems and chosen families; tactics to reform Maudsley support methods to integrate non-traditional family healing

  • Issues in research representation and how to make your research more gender-inclusive      

  • Assessing the gender-literacy and representativeness of your website and social media

  • Insight into insurance and financing obstacles facing trans and gender non-conforming clients

  • A guide to continuing and deepening cultural competency and advice regarding how to train new hires/other staff members in gender literacy

  • Tips on reaching out to and building relationships with your local queer/trans communities

Training Fees

Our services are priced in accordance with number of people attending and organizational budget. All trainings include a 3 month follow-up.​ Additionally, we offer a sliding scale for trans & gender diverse health care providers.  Please email us at hello@fedupcollective.org to schedule a training.

FEDUP is happy to offer in-person training in of the following locations:

Portland, OR

New York, NY

Philadelphia, PA

Future Locations:

Pittsburgh, PA

Oklahoma City, OK

Dallas, TX

For care providers outside of these areas we offer convenient virtual training sessions.