How to create safer spaces for sex and/or gender diverse people

[Shana A]

How to create safer spaces for sex and/or gender diverse people

SafespacesDespite identifying as trans, and being on the collective for a Reclaim the Night rally billed as 'trans inclusive', Sasha Sanford still felt apprehensive at the event, and asks: how can identity policing of trans, intersex and other sex and/or gender diverse people, in spaces autonomous of cis male people, be addressed?

13 December 2010

http://www.thescavenger.net/isgd/how-to-create-safe-spaces-for-sex-and-gender-diverse-people-73310.html

In the context of social justice organising, how can spaces and communities be formed where people might feel safer; spaces where it feels like our experiences, our resistance to oppression, and the understandings we have of ourselves are treated with respect – where our right to self-determination is acknowledged?

And how do we take responsibility for how we act, tackle the privilege we are extended by society, and be supportive in return?