VIRTUAL WORKSHOP

Unpacking & Contextualizing Gender
for Parents

Discover Your Own Gender Journey and Build Better Connections with your Gender Expansive Kid

March 30, 2025

This workshop is designed to help you better understand your child’s experience and find language to talk about gender expansiveness with others by exploring your own relationship to gender. 

We will use interactive exercises to look closely at your own experienced the development of gender, identity, the language you use to describe yourself and others, how gender gets communicated in your family & culture, and the impact of not fitting into the binary construction of gender. 

We will use a contextual lens to look at intersections of identity and unpack the experiences when we hold multiple levels of marginalization. Through this process you will come to better understand your own gender narratives, how that impacts your experience of your child’s gender exploration, and how you parent.
Understanding your own Gender Journey and the cultural influences that have shaped your beliefs will help you be a better parent to your gender expansive kid and help heal some of the emotional upheaval that you may have experienced as you’ve travelled the TransFamily Gender Journey.

What Will We Cover?

Here’s are some of what you will experience by the end of this workshop that will bring gender into focus and support your clarity and confidence parenting a gender-expansive kid:
  •  Understand your gender history and experiences as well as the experiences of others…including your child. 
  • Describe your own development of self as a gendered being and how this has been experienced as a result of other aspects of your identity 
  • Uncover the language you use to describe yourself and others and how gender is communicated in your culture 
  • Analyze the personal impact of both fitting and not fitting into the binary construction of gender 
  • Discover your own gender narratives and how these impact your experience of your child’s gender and how you parent 
  • AND MUCH MORE!

In-depth Experience

This is a day-long experiential workshop for parents and caregivers with transgender, non-binary, gender expansive, and gender questioning children as well as providers who work with gender diverse youth.

 This workshop is for parents/caregivers who are willing to jump in and turn the lens on themselves, their experiences, and courageously engage with the exercises.  It is through the experience that you better understand your child and yourself.  

If you want to be a passive observer of the process, this workshop is not for you.

Are there any bonuses you’ve added?

YES!

Bonus #1

You will have access to an online private unpacking gender group where you can continue the conversation and exploration with other parents who have taken this journey, and pose questions for Dr. Shawn. Resources from the workshop will be posted in the group along with recordings once they’re ready to be shared.

Bonus #2

You will also have free access to the TransFamily Alliance General Network, where all TransFamily Parents can connect with other parents and get notifications about important news affecting your kids and families.

It Is Our Mission To Help You Move From Confusion And Fear To Clarity And Confidence Raising A Trans, Non-Binary, Or Gender Expansive Child.

Special Early Bird Price

$99

* Offer valid until March 10, 2025.
After March 10, the price goes up to $149.

** TFA members $49 (purchase link can be found inside members area)

Course Curriculum

What our participants said

I appreciated hearing other parents’ concerns and experiences as well as those from providers. Being able to participant in the workshop with questionnaires was revealing and poignant. Although parents and providers weren’t supposed to group together, we did, and I found hearing their perspectives was valuable just as much as hearing from other parents.

 Dianne T.

I appreciated being able to hear other parents and providers talk about their experiences with trans kids, whether their own or otherwise. Seeing the reactions of other parents when someone else says something that rings a bell of truth to them also felt supportive like everyone was in the same boat. In the breakout groups we found it helpful to have a pop-up reminder of how much time we had left.

Lesli M.

Being able to explore perceptions, thoughts, and feelings around a variety of topics and have in depth conversations with others around them.

 Joanne F.

The preparatory homework was really helpful as was the pre-workshop webinar that i viewed as a recording. i watched most of it. the pre workshop activities helped me get familiar with the material and help myself to get into a helpful headspace.

 Kevin B.

The small group discussions were very helpful. I appreciated hearing from both parental and clinical views on subjects of gender biases and leveraging privilege. I also found the materials presented to be very useful in framing the topics discussed. Finally, Dr. Giammatei’s exceptional navigation of nuanced and emotionally-laden topics was an honor to witness and learn from.

Anne T.

Pricing

Unpacking Gender

$149.00 

One Single payment

  • Virtual Workshop 
  •  Templates and tools  
  • One-year access to the recordings

for TransFamily Alliance Members

$49.00

Special Membership Price

  • Virtual Workshop 
  •  Templates and tools  
  • One-year access to the recordings

Shawn V Giammattei, PhD

I’m Dr. Shawn Giammattei the founder and CEO of the Gender Health Training Institute and the humble servant of the TransFamily Alliance. I’m a clinical family psychologist, researcher, educator, and a gender specialist (certified by the World Association for Transgender Health) who has helped hundreds of parents like you raising transgender, non-binary, and gender-expansive youth on their own gender journeys. I’m very passionate about helping parents and families in general and I’m dedicated to helping you find the clarity and confidence you need to raise a happy, well-adjusted transgender, non-binary or gender expansive child.

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