The need for the HAES movement and eating disorder work to become more intersectional and move away from the gender binary Sand’s experience finding their way back to inclusive eating disorder work Why gender-affirming surgery isn’t a cosmetic surgery and why it saves lives The intersections of trans advocacy and anti-diet, Health at Every Size work The complex experience of body acceptance for trans folks The limitations of the current DSM mental-health diagnoses for eating disorders and for the trans experience The current limitations within the healthcare field around trans identity and barriers to care for trans folks How the minority stress around being misgendered feeds into disordered eating The growing body of research around trans folks and eating disorders Sand’s experience discovering their gender non-conforming identity Trans healthcare and body image, including the fatphobia and binaries embedded in queer communities and body norms within the trans community Sand’s discovery of size acceptance and fat liberation, and struggling with applying body acceptance to our own bodies How weight bias prevents folks from getting the proper care for their eating disorder Sand’s process of seeking recovery, including the ways in which healthcare practitioners both help and harm individuals attempting to heal How positive feedback from weight loss egged on Sand’s disordered relationship with food and the issue with body appraisals Sand’s experience with an eating disorder and over-exercise, and how trauma and coping played a role in the development of their disordered behaviors How being involved in dance negatively influenced Sand’s body image Sand’s first exposure to diet culture and fatphobia, including how unconscious and covert diet mentality was while they were growing up Sand’s relationship with food growing up, including how their Chinese-American heritage influenced how they related to food They live in Oakland, CA with their pug Zelda Sesame.
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Outside of their professional work, Sand is a dancer, avid foodie, punster, and pug enthusiast. lore dickey and Anneliese Singh, will be published by New Harbinger in late 2018. Sand’s upcoming book, A Clinician’s Guide to Gender-Affirming Care: Working with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Clients, which they co-authored with their colleagues Drs. They regularly present at conferences and provide trainings on a wide number of topics for health care systems, educators, and organizations. Sand co-authored the 2015 APA Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Clients and is the past Chair of the APA Committee on Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity. As a psychotherapist, trainer, and advocate, Sand is invested in healing and empowerment within marginalized communities and disrupting systems of oppression. Sand currently divides their time between working at Stanford University’s counseling center, Northern California Kaiser Permanente Transgender Services, and a private practice specializing in trans health, relationships and sexuality, trauma, EMDR, eating disorders, and addictions. Sand identifies as queer, nonbinary, and genderfluid and uses they, them pronouns. Sand Chang is a Chinese American clinical psychologist, educator, and writer based in Oakland, CA. Psychologist and trans-health educator Sand Chang joins us to talk about the complex experience of body acceptance for trans folks, the intersections of trans advocacy and Health at Every Size work, the growing body of research around trans folks and eating disorders, the shape-shifting nature of fatphobia and diet culture, and so much more! Plus, Christy answers a listener question about how food restrictions to try to cure acne can exacerbate an eating disorder.ĭr.
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