UPDATE! The Trans Peer Support Groups will return to the second and fourth Mondays of the month starting October 9th!
We’ve had some questions about recent changes to our transgender peer support group schedule and wanted to provide an update.
Our general trans peer support group is currently meeting on the first and third Thursdays of the month. We don’t currently have enough volunteer co-facilitators to run the meetings that we used to have on the second and fourth Mondays of the month, but we hope to bring them back in the near future.
Our Beyond the Binary group meets once per month on the fourth Tuesday of the month.
Our transmasc group is currently on hold as we look for volunteer co-facilitators. Ideally, we would also like to have a transfemme group, but again we’d need the volunteers to make it happen.
Our Cambridge transgender peer support group continues to meet bi-weekly on Thursdays.
For transparency’s sake, we schedule two volunteer co-facilitators to run every group. Our volunteers are required to take training in accessibility, health and safety, racism, and our own Rainbow Diversity Training. They’re also required to have a police check for the vulnerable sector, be familiar with our policies and procedures, and participate in additional training as we identify other important opportunities. Not everyone who applies to be a volunteer is well-suited to facilitation of a peer support group. We interview people and check references to make sure that our volunteers will be able to commit to running the groups at specific times and have strong facilitation skills.
We currently have four volunteers on our trans peer support team, and three of them are relatively new. Special thanks to our volunteers for making these groups possible! If you are interested in volunteering with us you can complete the application here.
We will provide more updates as the program evolves. We know how important these groups are to participants and we will provide as many of them as we safely can within our resources.