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I've been developing and delivering community and professional development education focused on the spectrum of gender diversity as it impacts people of all ages since 2006. Through non-profit organizations I founded, such as Trans Youth Family Advocates/Allies (TYFA)1, TransActive Gender Center2, and finally, the TransActive Gender Project3 at the Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling, where I created the first national Gender Diversity Certificate Program.
Over the years, it has been my honor, privilege, and life's work to establish the framework through which gender diversity is discussed and affirmed in virtually every aspect of family, community, and professional life.
“Asynchronous Education” is all about learning at your own pace.
Select the module that best aligns with your interests, needs, and schedule.
The course fee is $95.00 (plus the cost of class materials).
There is much being written, posted, broadcast, and podcasted about whether or not Christian Nationalists and their MAGA flying monkeys really mean to “eradicate transgenderism from public life entirely.”
This synchronous/asynchronous learning module will examine the historical context and methodology used by mythological (religious) extremists to impose theocratic government rule on secular democracies.
Michael Knowles – Featured Speaker
2023 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)
While it hasn't always been called "transgender" or even "transsexual", the history of self-identity and expression that diverged from the restrictive expectations of misogynist, patriarchal, and mythological expectations dates back to before recorded human history. This learning module explores what we now understand to be natural variations in gender identity, expression, and developmental human sex biology.
Gender diverse (nonconforming) students have been visible to educators in classroom settings for as long as there have been spaces in which to learn. Dating back to Sumeria in 3,000 BCE (well before Plato, Aristotle, and certainly Horace Mann) the education of youth and adults was delivered to diverse populations.
So, why is gender diversity in 21st-century classrooms treated as new?
