Trans Vitality is ACON’s resilience-building program for all trans and gender diverse adults in NSW. Trans Vitality focuses on trans people supporting trans people, and centres self-determination, autonomy and agency, while uplifting trans voices.
This Resilience Toolkit is one part of Trans Vitality, and it includes information, activities and resources to help build resilience, community connection, an understanding of our history, and a powerful imagining of our futures. Trans Vitality also includes some virtual peer workshops and online community training, an eLearning for mental health and crisis services, this Toolkit and a full evaluation, gratefully funded by NSW Health.
While we know that trans liberation depends on the structural reforms needed to enable trans people to live free and equal in every community we are part of, the path to trans liberation also needs strong, connected and resilient trans people.
So with that in mind, please explore each section of this Toolkit. You can embark on the activities on your own, with a trusted friend, your counsellor or with a group of mates. If you’re not sure where to begin, visit our Getting Started page to find where is right for you.
Welcome to Trans Vitality, we made it just for you.
Trans describes people whose gender differs from what was presumed for them at birth (sometimes referred to as “assigned at birth”), including trans women, trans men and non-binary people.
Trans Vitality has been made possible with the support of the NSW Ministry of Health’s Suicide Prevention team, our trans advisory group and yarning circle, co-design and clinical consultation groups, the many wonderful people throughout ACON and the wider LGBTQ+ community in NSW.
This Toolkit features illustrations by the wonderful Will Thompson and Briar Rolfe.