While most of our updates and activities are posted on our Facebook group page, we'll recap a few things here just to let everyone else know what is going on. |
posted Mar 27, 2011 10:11 AM by Web Admin
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updated Mar 27, 2011 1:40 PM
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a transgender young adult social group Sunday March 27, 2011
A few days ago, we had our first group activity that included members who organically stumbled upon the group. (i.e. we did not drag them into it). A handful of us went out to get Mexican food in the Heights and, in the process, brainstormed ideas for future activities. Ideas range from doing things like Rafting in Pennsylvania to biking down to the Towpath to the Winking Lizard In Peninsula. An idea to go cow-tipping was even thrown out, but this is Northeast Ohio, not West Virginia.
Nonetheless, a couple of broader ideas are on the table. The idea of having a regular coffee shop gathering has been proposed several times in slightly different ways. We'd probably do this in the Akron area every couple of weeks. Its under discussion. Join the Facebook group and voice your comments. I think something like this would be a good outlet to use to grow the group. After all, the goal here is to bring back together the possibly hundreds of young trans people in Northeast Ohio who have scattered about because they got nothing out of other trans groups.
If anyone wants to bring in members and plan activities specific to a subregion of Northeast Ohio, please contact us. We'd love for you to organize social activity for the trans-young-people of our region under this single brand. There is so much to be gained by making it easy for our fellow transgender young people to find and interact with their peers by using the front of a single group organization. |
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posted Mar 17, 2011 11:55 AM by Web Admin
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updated Mar 18, 2011 6:42 AM
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a transgender young adult social group
Hey young people: we have an Activity planned!
Date: Friday March 25, 2011
Time: Evening, around 7pm
Location: we are expecting the Cleveland near-west side to be the best location. For what: dinner, or getting together shortly after dinner The exact plan will be tailored to best accommodate attendees.
To maintain the group's privacy and integrity, we are treating this as a private group so that we may screen its attendees. To join us, send us an email, tell us about yourself and we'll set you up with more details. (this is not a mailing list)
TransTwenty is not a traditional support group, but instead a social group of transgender young adults who get together for activities, food, beer, coffee, playing video games, shopping, basically anything social. There are possibly hundreds of trans-young-adults in the Northeast Ohio area, yet very few attend support group meetings. And out of those who do, even fewer stick around for more than a meeting or two. It is painstakingly apparent that something is not working. TransTwenty was created by young adults who observed their peers feeling alienating vibes from traditional support groups and had trouble relating to its regular attendees. We've found that our peers are largely frustrated by the same things.
Frustrated with the lack of trans-young-adult social interaction for those of us past our teenage years but still much younger than our parents, a few of us have organized an independent young-adult trans group that does regular social activities. This is a social group for transgender-identified individuals through their twenties. as this group grows, we will get together on a regular basis for a variety of social activities in venues and homes throughout the Northeast Ohio area. We realize that we are not supposed to all band together all the time, but to we can occasionally get some benefit from it-- and that is the idea here.
In addition to being a whole new type of group, to some extent this group is a replacement for the Transformers group that stopped meeting in 2010 after it lost its moderator. We are learning from the mistakes of Transformers and building on its merits. However, the point is that this group is not a moderated support group. It is a loosely organized independent social group that uses activity to facilitate interaction and friendship between young adults who share the life experience of living with a transgender identity. We think this is exactly what we and our peers need. |
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