Interview with Sand Chang

An interview with Sand Chang, a nonbinary Chinese American psychologist/psychotherapist and educator from Oakland, California. Chang co-authored A Clinician's Guide to Gender Affirming Care (New Harbinger, 2018) and the APA Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Clients (2015). Chang is a board member and section editor for Trans Bodies, Trans Selves, and co-founder of The Gender Affirming Letter Access Project (The GALAP), a movement to make mental health letters for trans health care financially accessible. In this oral history interview, Chang describes their journey into trans healthcare as a field, and their work as an advocate within the field. Chang describes the barriers faced by trans and non-binary individuals seeking gender affirming healthcare, and the resistance on the part of practitioners to the kinds of changes for which activists were advocating. Further, Sand describes their involvement and advocacy in the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).

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Identifier: m613mx962
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
Creator(s): Chang, Sand
Contributor(s): Beam, Myrl
Billund-Phibbs, Myra
Publisher: University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
Date Created: Sep. 6, 2019
Genre: Oral Histories
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Subject(s): The Gender Affirming Letter Access Project (The GALAP)
Trans Bodies, Trans Selves
World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)
Places: Washington, D.C. > Washington County > Washington
Topic(s): Asian American transgender people
Chinese Americans
Health care for LGBTQ+ people
LGBTQ+ health education
Non-binary people
Resource Type: Moving image
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Language: English
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