
Practice with Embodied Confidence
Gender Affirming Care Training for Virtuosic Healers

You do complicated work—
—and see the world in complex ways.
If you were a musician, we’re talking Chopin.
You play intricate compositions, and you handle nuanced, layered work with a grace that’s unmistakably yours.
But with trans and nonbinary clients, it’s Chopsticks all over again.
You find yourself having to revisit the basic building blocks of your craft.
(FYI, I know you didn’t go into massive student loan debt so you could practice pronouns in a sentence grammar school-style…)
And it’s frustrating to know you’ve moved so far beyond this in every other area—but here, your hands fumble over keys that seem foreign.
The music just isn’t in you, no matter how much you long to hear it.
You’re crystal clear on this, though–
You DON’T want to be the provider who “doesn’t get it.”
—
You’ve seen those “affirming” colleagues… the tone-deaf ones who repeatedly misgender, misunderstand, and don’t self-correct.
All the while, they keep that pride flag on their website, list themselves as an LGBTQ+ affirming provider, and respond to requests for “trans-affirming clinician” with all the confidence in the world.
It. Makes. You. Furious.
But…..
Even though you can feel the difference, you can’t claim it. You don’t have the chops yet, and you don’t want to cause harm.
There’s an ocean between you and them, virtuoso—
they’d confuse Beethoven with the Backstreet Boys, for god’s sake.
And.