Episode 21: Transgender Issues with Zander Keig

NASW Social Work Talks Podcast

Zander Keig, MSW, LCSW, is a clinical social work case manager on the U.S. Navy Medicine West Regional Transgender Care Team. He's a U.S. Coast Guard veteran and co-author of 3 books and several journal articles. He is also a transsexual man who transitioned in 2005.

His peers at the NASW California chapter named him Social Worker of the Year in 2018. He is chair of NASW's National Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues.

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Posted Jan. 8, 2019

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About Zander Keig

• Zander Keig's website
• A Sign Post: Abandon Gender to Discover Gender
• U.S.-Based Youth Gender Clinics

Facts & Data

• The Williams Institute estimates there are some 1.4 million transgender people in the United States.
• In 2015, 67% of LGBTQ homicide victims were transgender women, according to the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs. The majority were transgender women of color.
•  According to the National Center for Transgender Equality, over 134,000 American veterans are transgender, and over 15,000 trans people are serving in military today.
• 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey
• Unerased: Counting Transgender Lives

Related Resources

• Affirmative Practice: Understanding and Working with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Persons
• Adult Transgender Care: An Interdisciplinary Approach for Training Mental Health Professionals
• WPATH Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender Nonconforming People
• LGBTQIA Conferences
• GLAAD Glossary of Terms: Transgender

Organizations

• WPATH
• TransMentors International
• FTM International
• National Center for Transgender Equality
• World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)
• TransYouth Family Allies
• TransFamily Support Services
• Gender Spectrum
• Transgender Law Center
• Transgender American Veterans Association