When you received your transgender acceptance card in the mail, they didn’t seem to include how to actually navigate the world as a trans person. Hospitals, families, partners, work, coming out, HRT, deadnames, legal rights, health insurance, culture wars — no Transgender For Dummies was released.

However, Identity Outlaw: Navigating Trans-ness is a good place to start for all of that! Free food and books will be provided, and the event is 18+. We encourage everyone of any gender or sexuality to attend.

Registration is NOT required—just come on by!

The lowdown

Date: Monday, Nov. 13

Time: 5-7 p.m.

Place: RISE: Healthy for Life, 2700 S Roan St #300B in Johnson City; Stop 22 (South Roan—Heritage Park) on the Red bus route.

Ages: Anyone 18 or older is welcome in the spirit of community and mutual respect

Other information

Free food—Snacks and drinks to tide us over.

Free book—Take home Yanik’s book Sex Education! if you don’t already have it.

We encourage people of all genders or sexualities to attend!

Meet the Facilitator!

Yanik Lazarov (any pronouns) is a certified Stellar Sex Ed facilitator and author of Sex Education! A graduate of East Tennessee State University, Yanik majored in Biological Sciences and minored in Religious Studies. He continues to pursue a graduate degree in Epidemiology, and hopes to bring more open access, accessible, and engaging material in sexuality and gender education, so that everyone may know the wonders of the world for themselves.