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WATGDQP course outline and learning objectives

This two-day course will cover:

  • Gender diversity in the current social context
  • A basic introduction to relevant legislation, including The Equality Act 2010, and how it might relate to service provision
  • The WPATH (The world Professional Association for Transgender Health) Standards of care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender Nonconforming People and how they inform good practice
  • The treatment pathways and medical contexts relevant to transgender people and their families
  • Specific terminology, skills and knowledge relating to the use of language when working alongside trans and gender variant people
  • Gender Theory and how it can inform good practice in therapeutic work with trans people and their families
  • Theoretical models and psychotherapy practices that support work with trans and gender diverse people
  • Current dilemmas in practice with transgender and gender diverse people


The course takes a generic / integrative approach, providing useful tools to take back into your way of working.

Some elements are drawn from Gendered Intelligence's core half-day general course "Introduction to Trans Awareness". If you have previously attended that course, you'll find a few of the exercises on the first day familiar.

Learning Objectives
At the end of the course, participants will:

  • Appreciate how sex, gender and sexual orientation interact
  • Feel more confident in understanding how gender is constructed and the impact this has on identity, relationships and therapy
  • Understand key terms and language, and have strategies to approach their continuing evolution
  • Understand the legal and medical contexts for working with trans clients
  • Know a range of ideas, tools and theoretical underpinnings to enable better conversations about gender and gender diversity in therapeutic practice
  • Be able to identify good practice in relation to working alongside and supporting transgender and gender variant clients
  • Feel more confident to engage in conversations about gender and gender diversity
  • Have additional learning resources and know where to find further helpful materials