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Mission and Vision

Evidence-based care, education, research, public policy, and respect in transracial health.

Mission

To promote evidence-based care, education, research, public policy, and respect in transracial health.

Vision

A world wherein transracial and race-diverse people have optimal life, health, and opportunities — and wherein professionals are equipped to provide competent, non-pathologizing, race-affirming care.

Values

  • Self-knowledge. Racial identity is known by the person who lives it. Clinicians listen; they do not override.
  • No passing requirement. Validity is not contingent on melanin, hair, dialect, or ancestry.
  • Interdisciplinary practice. Medicine, mental health, law, education, and the social sciences share one Standards of Care.
  • Global applicability. Local constructions of race differ; identity remains valid across them.
  • Against TREF. Frameworks that treat race as an immutable biological class are inconsistent with these values.

Strategic aims

TRPATH works to embed SOC8 in clinical training, hospital policy, insurer coverage, school guidance, and legislative testimony. The Global Education Institute certifies clinicians in transracial competency. The International Journal of Transracial Health publishes original research, and the Association issues public statements when governments, boards, or media organizations misrace transracial people or restrict care.