Gender & Sexuality Learning Series

SESSION 1

HUD’s Equal Access and Gender Identity Rule Training with Abby Miller. 

This session covers HUD’s Equal Access Rule, as described in the Equal Access to Housing in HUD Programs Regardless of Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity (Final Rule). It ensures that all individuals, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, have equal access to HUD's programs, which include shelters, benefits, services, and accommodations, and prohibits discrimination against individuals within the LGBTQIA2S+ community. Agencies that receive CoC funding are encouraged to attend. Key topics include:

• Overview of CoC Policy and HUD's Equal Access Rules

• Legal frameworks prohibiting discrimination

• Effective strategies to create a safe, inclusive, and discrimination-free environment for all individuals interacting with CoC-funded programs.

Here is a link to Session 1. You will need the following passcode: +eBBcXV7.

SESSION 2

Gender & Sexuality Workshop with Syah B Consulting.

Engage in an in-depth exploration of gender and sexuality. Understand the distinction between biological sex, gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation. In reviewing these topics, we will encourage audience members to reflect upon their relationship to gender expectations and begin to expand their self-awareness. This self-awareness of our implicit biases will allow us to begin to explore basic empathy skills (that demonstrate allyship and support for expansive LGBTQ+ people), as well as give a better understanding of heterosexist and cissexist cultural norms that create unsustainable and hostile environments for LGBTQ+ people.

Here is a link to Session 2. You will need the following passcode: ^Qch7MDp.

SESSION 3

July 18 from 9-11 AM: Gender & Sexuality Workshop with Syah B Consulting.

Key topics of the two-part workshop include: 

• Understanding the distinction between biological sex, gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation.  

• Encouraging audience members to reflect upon their relationship to gender expectations and begin to expand self-awareness. This self-awareness of implicit biases will allow us to begin to explore basic empathy skills (that demonstrate allyship and support for expansive LGBTQ+ people) 

• Increasing understanding to heterosexist and cissexist cultural norms that create unsustainable and hostile environments for LGBTQ+ people 

Here is a link to Session 3. You will need the following passcode: B#EU#8e9.