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Working with rural trans survivors (Webinar)

Working with rural trans survivors (Webinar)

Transgender individuals live in every corner of the country, including in rural areas.  This webinar provided an overview of the realities and implications of being transgender and not living in a large urban community. Guest presenter Kris Bein, IowaCASA’s Resource...
Transgender 101 for Victim Service Providers

Transgender 101 for Victim Service Providers

This fast-paced webinar is designed to assist victim service providers in better serving transgender survivors of sexual assault and other forms of violence. This webinar primarily focuses on basic transgender concepts, but also includes references and examples...
Power and Control Tactics

Power and Control Tactics

Both trans abusers and their abusive partners can use not only any type of power and control tactic, but trans-specific ones, as well. This fact sheet gives examples of tactics that can be used against or by trans and non-binary people in the areas of safety, outing,...
101 Trans Identity Words

101 Trans Identity Words

This list of 101 terms used by people in the trans community was compiled in the early 2000s. Countless more have been added since.
Safety Planning Tool

Safety Planning Tool

This lengthy, trans-specific safety planning tool covers: basic facts about intimate partner violence; safety planning; groundwork; staying safe at home; emergency safety bag; financial planning; safe havens; safety in your new place; safety on the job and in public;...
Visible Kindness

Visible Kindness

This 2006 essay was reprinted in 2012 after the Sandy Hooks school shooting. It weaves together earlier school shootings, a loved one’s suicide and the neighbors’ response, mustaches, and the Amish response to violence. Today, on December 14, 2012, there...
TDOR opening – Wendy

TDOR opening – Wendy

Opening speech by Rev. Wendy Woodruff at the 2012 Transgender Day of Remembrance. by Rev. Wendy Woodruff We gather this evening to mourn. We also gather to celebrate the lives that have been lost and to dedicate ourselves to making a better world for those who see...