Founder
Transpire Trainings & Consulting, LLC
FOCUS
In America, both LGBTQ youth and adults face disproportionate levels of victimization, substance use, mental/physical illnesses, and suicidality. And with trans people being four times as likely as cisgender people to make less than $10,000 a year, commercial and survival sex work is prevalent in trans/non-binary communities.
As a social worker, LJ Woolston supported and advocated alongside queer/trans youth experiencing homelessness in Miami for over half a decade. During his tenure, LJ witnessed a plethora of systemic and institutional failures that had profoundly negative impacts on his clients. Many of the very same issues also impacted his partner, Diana, a trans-identified sex worker who took her life in 2016. In an effort to make spaces, services, and support more accessible and affirming for both his clients and queer/trans loved ones, LJ has crafted and delivered trainings on LGBTQ topics since 2013. In 2019, he channeled the breadth of his lived and professional experiences into his own training/consulting entity, Transpire Trainings & Consulting, LLC.
MORE ABOUT LJ
LJ (he/him & they/them) is a Miami-born queer/trans social worker, activist, artist, and Point Foundation Alumni. With a deep commitment to consciousness-raising, collective liberation, healing, and social justice, LJ launched Transpire Trainings & Consulting in 2019. Transpire offers training, speaking, and consulting for organizations, corporations, and service providers committed to creating inclusive, affirming, and equitable spaces and workplaces.
LJ’S WORK AND VISION
Podcasts/Interviews/Trainings:
- LinkedIn Live Interview with Center for Creative Leadership – Authentically Recruiting and Retaining Trans/Non-binary Talent
- Apple Podcasts – All in a Day’s (Sex) Work, Remembering Diana Hemingway
- Gender, Homelessness, and IPV: Building Equitable Systems to Support Survivors and Providers
- Multinational Panel on the Effects of COVID-19 on LGBTQIA communities
- The Circle: LIVE with Niki Lopez
Speaking Engagements:
Writing:
- Letter to Editor | Let’s Finish the Flag Debate: We Have Real Work to Do
- Resilience in a Leaky Vessel, Remembering Amanda Russo
- Power and Peace: Late Activist Diana Hemingway
- In Love That Never Dies: Remembering the Legacy of Diana Hemingway
Co-Authorship/Consulting:
- Plume vs Folx: What’s the Best Online Trans Healthcare Provider?
- Trans/Non-Binary Rights in the Workplace
Community Organizing:
- The development of the COVID-19 South FL Mutual Aid Coalition
- South Florida LGBTQ community rallies to help those impacted by COVID
- South Florida Remembers Victims of Anti-Transgender Violence
- Miami’s Transgender Day of Remembrance and Resilience
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