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A Human Baseline
For as long as homo sapiens have walked upright, humans have observed and speculated about their own diversity. It has been a fundamental part of graphic, oral, and written histories. The earliest known cave art by modern humans (Sulawesi), dating back more than 48,000 years1, depicts human-animal (therianthropic) hybrid figures. Rabbinic dialogs2,3 and literature dating back 2,500 years recorded (without passing judgment) observed biological and sociological variations in body types and self-expression.
- Dunham, W., “World’s oldest cave painting in Indonesia…”, https://www.reuters.com/science/worlds-oldest-cave-painting-indonesia-shows-pig-people-2024-07-03/; (July 2023)
- https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/the-eight-genders-in-the-talmud/
- Adventures in Jewish Studies
We're Built Different
Like human diversity, Burleton Education is different because it’s built around lived expertise, subject-matter depth, and measurable practice change—not performative compliance.
Going beyond generic “DEI awareness” modules, Burleton Education translates complex, high-stakes realities—especially around gender diversity—into clear, operational guidance that helps individuals, communities, businesses, institutions, and organizations enhance quality of life, reduce risk, improve service outcomes, and strengthen trust within families, communities, employees, and customers.
Our approach is trauma-informed, evidence-aware, and implementation-focused, equipping leadership, staff, employees, and volunteers with concrete language, decision-making tools, and policy-ready frameworks that hold up in real-world settings like healthcare, schools, and public-facing institutions.
Burleton Education is built differently because we challenge ourselves to do more than inform those we engage with; we aspire to work together in building durable competence, replacing uncertainty and apprehension with confident, responsive, and accountable action.
Since 2006
Jenn Burleton has delivered gender diversity training to 15,000+ participants across education, healthcare, and workplace settings.
Gender Diversity Inclusion promotes:
- Productivity
- Compliance & Risk Reduction
- Psychological Safety
- Holistic Leadership
- Recruitment & Retention
- Community Engagement
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The Times We Live In
It’s important to talk about gender diversity in the United States right now because it’s more than an abstract cultural debate—it’s affecting real people in real time. Transgender, nonbinary, Two-Spirit, and gender-diverse youth, adults, and their families are navigating a rapidly changing landscape in schools, healthcare, workplaces, and public life, and many businesses, industries, families, and professionals are being asked to make decisions without clear, reliable information.
Open, respectful, evidence-aware conversation helps cut through fear and misinformation, reduces harm, and supports safer environments where everyone can learn, work, and access services with dignity. These discussions help organizations and communities establish policies, communication, and care practices that reflect both legal realities and basic human respect, even when the topic is politically charged.
Extremism & Transmisia
Religious extremism that endangers transgender adults and youth less through ‘religious belief’ in general and more through authoritarian, absolutist religious ideologies that frame transgender existence as immoral, threatening, or illegitimate—and then mobilize communities and quasi-legitimate institutions and authoritarian political movements around that claim.
These factions amplify transmisia, which is defined as hate, aversion, mistrust, and persecution directed at transgender, nonbinary, Two-Spirit, agender, and otherwise gender-nonconforming people.
Transmisia, often misidentified as transphobia, dates back to antiquity, to the rise of patriarchal systems dependent on the philosophy and practice of misogyny. In modern times, it is most apparent in White Christian Nationalism, Toxic Masculinity (the ‘manosphere’), and Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminism (TERF), which attempts to disguise its intentions through the use of the term, “Gender Critical Feminism”.
An excerpt from the essay,
“Anti-LGBTQ+ Extremism”
"The 'Gender-Critical' movement is a convenient rebranding of Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminism, and it is related to their growing integration with Christian Nationalist, Anti-LGBTQ+ ideologies, think tanks, and organizations. If TERFs were to align themselves with their (historically speaking) sworn enemies (the Far Right)...they would need to rebrand themselves as something less generally ‘feminist,’ and more specifically anti-transgender.
Suggested Reading
“On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century” | Snyder, T.
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