Gender & Pronoun Assumptions and What To Do
Photo by Arnold Dogelis on Unsplash By Van Ethan Levy, LMFT & LPCC (they, them, theirs) For free tickets to Van's documentary Do Something: Trans & Non Binary Identities that will be screening on Trans Day of Remembrance , Saturday, November 20th, please email them at DoSomethingDocumentary@gmail.com . Do Something: Trans & Non Binary Identities is a documentary created only by trans and/or non binary people. The film is also a call to action to create safer, more affirming spaces for ourselves and each other. GENDER & PRONOUN ASSUMPTIONS AND WHAT TO DO The way someone shows up in the world is often how people perceive their gender. They look at what we are wearing, the clothing of our material, the colours, our cell phone covers, our water bottle colours, the types of shoes, the colour of our glasses, do we have long hair, short hair, a beard, body hair, how we stand, the way we talk, the jewellery we are wearing if we are wearing make-up and m...