Texas Universities face new challenges in regard to pluralism and the respect of diversity in its many forms among faculty, student, staff, and the communities wherein they reside. Oftentimes a strategic approach that utilizes the grassroots power of the members of these institutions in collaboration with leaders at high administrative levels yields the most positive results in transitioning such entities towards being more open to all. The Texas Transgender Nondiscrimination Summit is a gras...
Texas Universities face new challenges in regard to pluralism and the respect of diversity in its many forms among faculty, student, staff, and the communities wherein they reside. Oftentimes a strategic approach that utilizes the grassroots power of the members of these institutions in collaboration with leaders at high administrative levels yields the most positive results in transitioning such entities towards being more open to all. The Texas Transgender Nondiscrimination Summit is a grassroots effort to look at strategic approaches to the issues of social justice and policy implementation as regards the concepts of gender identity and gender expression. The Texas Transgender Nondiscrimination Summit invites interested parties in higher education to discuss what works and what does not work in regards to codifying inclusion of "gender identity and expression" into institutional policy. The summit serves to find means to this end through discussion of divergent and respective strategies in regard to the inevitable barriers that always arise. We envision this summit not as a protest, demonstration, or rally, but as an opportunity to discuss strategic approaches towards social justice issues related to policy inclusive statements.
The 5th Annual Texas Transgender Nondiscrimination Summit will be July 19-20, 2013 at the University of Houston in the Roy Cullen building. I encourage all to spread the word and invite others to attend. The planning committee has been working hard on this project and it always gets better each year. We will be offering free CEU's to LBSW, LMSW, LCSW, LPC, LMFT with some ethics components.
email txtgsummit@gmaill.com for up to date info.
Hello followers, It is the time of the year when we begin to make a strong push for donations for the 5th Annual Texas Transgender Nondiscrimination Summit (TTNS). Every dollar counts towards helping creating change in all our Texas Colleges and Universities. Imagine, when the TTNS began in 2009 only three universities had inclusive policies for transgender faculty, staff, and students. Today that number has grown to 23. Four Independent School Districts and Four faith based universities are now inclusive of transgenders. One of the loneliness numbers is one (Three Dog Night). No one who is working to creating change should ever feel alone on their campus. We are there for them, help us keep this work strong by donating to TTNS a 501c3 nonprofit organization. For instructions on how to donate email us at txtgsummit@gmail.com or mail a check to POB 1095 Baytown Texas 77522 or use our Paypal link on our website www.txtns.org. We care and want to help.
I am happy to announce that the Transgender Foundation of America and the Houston Transgender Unity Committee have partnered with us for the Summit in the summer. They will be hosting an evening dinner at the Houston Transgender Center on July 19, 2013 after that days Summit. It is always a great time to mingle and network, its fun. Thank you to TFA, TENT, and HTUC!
It is that time of year again, please complete your registration form so we can make this Summit a great experience for all. We need this information in order to ensure enough food is ordered and space is provided. Email txtgsummit@gmail.com and ask for the registration form.