by Dr. Gennifer "Genn" Herley | Nov 3, 2020 | Acceptance, Discrimination, Family, Mental Health, teletheraoy, Therapy, Transgender
Every November, we participate in Transgender Awareness Week (November 13-19, 2020) to bring attention to the challenges our community faces. These obstacles include anti-Transgender violence, limited accessibility to healthcare, roadblocks to financial independence...
by Dr. Gennifer "Genn" Herley | Sep 21, 2020 | Acceptance, college, Coming Out, Discrimination, Mental Health
It is halfway through September, during the disastrous 2020, and if you are a senior in high school considering the next steps in education, college is on your mind. So many choices, both academically and geographically-and if you are trans, further complicated by...
by Dr. Gennifer "Genn" Herley | Aug 26, 2020 | Acceptance, Civil Rights, Discrimination, Transgender, Work
Anyone in the LGBTQI community, whether working in an office or a construction site, is nervous about how their coworkers will treat them once they learn whatever truth they are living. While it has undoubtedly become more commonplace to be accepting of homosexuality...
by Dr. Gennifer "Genn" Herley | Aug 26, 2020 | Acceptance, Discrimination, education, Family, group therapy, Mental Health, Therapy, Transgender
Trust is a tricky thing. Once it’s been broken, it isn’t easy to regain, especially today, when you don’t need special equipment to take damning photographic and/or video evidence of wrongdoing, and the internet makes sure that all of it is disseminated and preserved...
by Dr. Gennifer "Genn" Herley | Jul 6, 2020 | Acceptance, Civil Rights, Discrimination, education
With the murder of George Floyd and the subsequent resurgence in understandable fury in the Black Lives Matter movement, past transgressions of racism (both by law enforcement and otherwise) are finally garnering the attention warranted. For many Americans, it is a...
by Dr. Gennifer "Genn" Herley | May 4, 2020 | Acceptance, Coming Out, Discrimination, Family, Mental Health, social distancing, Transgender
The news has attempted to further the concept of family togetherness while the Stay-at-Home orders are in place across the country. We are all trying to realize that silver lining. What hasn’t been receiving the necessary attention is how being forced to stay isolated...
