The 16 Days of Activism that reckon with Gender-Based Violence begins this Thursday. This blog will attempt to address the GBV trauma suffered by women and men identified/identifying – by choosing that phrasing I mean how people are identified as opposed to how people identify themselves, a distinction which I believe is made when accounting for an agency that is not often possible – transgender and gender non-conforming people. To be clear, my posit is that we should get to a point where trauma-informed communication, care and policy are no longer necessary for purposes of survival, but where preventative policies and structures exist so that GBV does not ever happen in the first place. As a side-note, I will attempt to be as all-encompassing in my vocabulary as I can, with the reminder that I am constantly checking myself to learn and correct whenever need be.