As a result of the Coronavirus Stay At Home Order, we will now be holding virtual PFLAG meetings supported by an easy-to-use online meeting tool called Zoom. CLICK HERE to get set-up with Zoom.
Join us for our regular monthly meeting focused on the transgender and gender expansive community, friends, families, and allies for support and education. Support group will follow the education portion.
Please RSVP to info@pflagmanhattanbeach.org
The Rise of Transgender Sports Bans
Presented by: Shoshana Goldberg (she/her/hers)
About our Presentation:
A discussion of the rise of transgender sports bans throughout the US, and their implications for transgender youth.
About our Presenter:
Shoshana Goldberg is a Research Associate at Strength in Numbers Consulting Group, where she oversees research and evaluation for social justice clients, largely in the fields of LGBTQ youth health and HIV/AIDS. In addition to her work with Strength in Numbers, she holds faculty appointments at UNC and University of Illinois-Chicago, where she teaches graduate level courses on LGBTQ+ health. She has over 12 years of experience in quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods public health research, and holds both an MPH, and PhD, in Maternal and Child Health and Epidemiology from the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (UNC). She also has training from the UNC Carolina Population Center and the Fenway Summer Institute for LGBT Population Health. Her areas of expertise include domestic and international social, structural, and policy/political determinants of LGBTQ+ health, adolescent health, health disparities and sexual and reproductive health. Before joining Strength in Numbers, she consulted for research institutes, think tanks and other consulting groups, most recently for the Center for American Progress where she published a report on the impact of transgender sports policies on the health and well-being of transgender youth.
A NOTE ABOUT VIRTUAL MEETINGS:
We will be utilizing Zoom features that provide the highest level of safety and confidentiality possible. Zoom is free to you and you need not have an account to join us. If you are new to Zoom, you can follow the links [here] for brief tutorials on all you need to know to sign on to a Zoom meeting with us. We ask that each of you that would like to participate in the on-line support, contact us in advance by email at info@pflagmanhattanbeach.org to RSVP for the meeting. We will cut off RSVPs at 5 p.m. on the day of the meeting. All participants will receive a follow-up email with the link to the Zoom call and a password. For confidentiality’s sake, please do not forward these to another participant — they are welcome to contact us directly to receive the link.
We ask that youth who may want to join for our support groups to please be joined by a parent. Some heavy emotions can emerge in the course of our sessions and having a parent on-hand helps to ensure that the needs of any youth on the call are met.
There are some benefits to utilizing new tools like Zoom. We recognize that our typical evening support group meetings are not feasible for everyone due to work, family or other demands. If there is a need, we would like to offer an additional support group Zoom conference call sometime during the daytime hours. If you are interested in a daytime support group, email us at info@pflagmanhattanbeach.org and let us know what times might be more workable for you.
If you need more personalized assistance and support, we remain here for you. Email us confidentially and we will work with you to identify the best member of our team to assist with your individual needs.