Webinar Description:

This class is based on Psychology of Gender PSYX 335 – A class developed by Vanessa McNeill for Montana State University. The class is a 3-hour introduction to terminology, philosophies, and intersections of Gender studies, LGBTQ+ resources will be provided, along with copies of the slide presentation.

• Intersex
• Cisgender
• Gender Fluid
• Sexual Orientation
• Gender Confirming/Affirming
• Hetero-nonconforming
• Transgender
• Pansexual
• Queer

Participants should feel more comfortable with gender-affirming terminology, gain a deeper comprehension, appreciation, and humility for the complexities of the LGBTQIA+ umbrella (Helgeson, 2020), learn how to create an LGBTQ Affirming Clinic, and to identify suicide risks associated with gender identity and being a member of a marginalized community.

Participants should comprehend LGBTQ military culture, effective means restriction, and why restricting access to lethal means prevents suicides.

• Provide a psychology perspective biology+psychology+social (bio/psycho/social) to contemporary LGBTQIA+ issues, including gender identity, terminology (including how to avoid unintended microaggressions), societal expectations, and stigma leading to suicidal ideation.
• Enable participants to feel more comfortable with gender-affirming terminology.
• Provide a deeper comprehension, appreciation, and humility for the complexities of the LGBTQIA+ umbrella.
• Provide tools for an +LGBTQIA-affirming clinic.
• Identify suicide risks associated with gender identity and being a member of a marginalized community.
• Provide a basic comprehension of the five layers of biological sex (DNA, chromosomes, hormones, internal genitalia, and external genitalia) and what common human sex variations exist