Prevention and combating cyber bullying and internet violence among youth

Prevention and combating cyber bullying and internet violence among youth
– manual for youth workers –
Workshop 3: Understanding trans*
Duration of the workshop: 45-60 minutes
Materials needed: None
Aim
To make participants identify/empathise with a person who is transgender/transsexual, and to
make them more sensitive and to influence on their attitudes related to homophobia and
transphobia.
Guide for facilitator
1. Before you begin with the workshop, explain to participants what is cis* so they could better
understand the story. Cis* is a term for people whose gender identity matches the sex that they
were assigned at birth. It is often referred to as cisgender or cissexual. For example, someone
who identifies as a woman and was assigned female at birth is a cisgender woman.
2. Ask participants to close their eyes and try to fit in the role from the story.
2. Read the story from the resource sheet.
3. After reading a story, lead the discussion based on the given questions, or add some of your
additional ones depending on the discussion flow.
4. It’s important that facilitator should add some energizer/exercise that would help participants
to come back to reality after this workshop. In this way emotional valve will be closed and
participants will feel less emotionally fragile after the workshop.
Discussion
1. How was this exercise for you? What are your emotions now like?
2. Can this be a realistic situation?
3. How did you feel during the guided story?
4. What do you think; do trans people feel like you did in the story?
5. Why is it difficult for transgender/transsexual persons to live in environment such as
ours?
6. Is it really important what’s your gender identity?
7. What can we do to stop discrimination based on gender, sex and sexual orientation?
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