BEYOND OUR OWN UNDERSTANDING OF INCLUSION

• Professionals can begin to think about how they can be more prepared to work with clients who are transgender. • Those in the fitness world will be able to think beyond their own ideas of inclusiveness. • Professionals will learn more about the health disparities people who are transgender may face. • Professionals will learn how other sectors of society are moving toward more inclusiveness and begin discussing similar changes inside their own fitness centers or businesses. This article gives a brief review of current research regarding the transgender community in fitness, touches on health disparities clients who are transgender may face, and what we can learn from the progress other sectors in society have made to address inclusiveness for the growing transgender community.