Gender Identity & Expression Training Reviews

For such a sensitive and contested subject the course presented a very simplistic view. It's definitely an area where training would be useful but the course simply presented a preferred way of seeing the world. For example: - The course made it very clear that sex and gender are different. However, it then said that "if a person identifies as a male and he refers to himself as masculine, then his gender identity is male regardless of his anatomy". It would have been very useful here to cover whether male / female are terms describing sex or gender; if they do both as it appears from the statement then how should we distinguish between sex and gender? - When discussing transitioning it stated that one indication would be someone using a preferred gender space where they feel most comfortable. Many people feel uncomfortable with someone of the opposite sex sharing a single sex space (regardless of their views of gender). It would be really useful for the training to look at how to manage perceptions of single 'gender spaces' vs single 'sex spaces', but it ignored these questions. The training usefully told us to be kind and to apologise when causing offence. Ideally we wouldn't need training for that, or it could be included in the wider DEI or anti-bullying training. Ultimately it presented some contested views as fact and described any other opinions as 'outdated'.

Really good training, explaining gender in a very inclusive and comprehensive way.

I learned a few new things and the course was useful. The question about Indian history was a little unfair and off the subject however!

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This training opened my eyes to terminology and language which may be appropriate or inappropriate.

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This course was a good refresher of how powerful language is, and how we can use language to empower, support and include everyone, no matter what background we come from. Using Sophie Cook in the training was brilliant; she is an inspiration and I was very moved by her TedX talk.

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Already very into diversity and inclusion had some issues with the test crashing wouldn’t allow me to select the answers I wanted straight away it accepted what ever was clicked on even when it may not of been the answer I’d of liked to have submitted

This was a good summary of a lot of the terminology you come across in the media.