I have spoken with IRB members, and they've described the training. I have not seen the material. I was advised that it is a three-hour session and that they're given some material and are given a lecture.
My challenge is that I police LGBT sensitivity training in the Caribbean with my husband. We know that the culture shift we're asking some persons to make is not necessarily malicious, but we're asking them to make a culture shift, and that can't happen in three hours.
Just as an example, in the training we do when we train in the Caribbean, on the first day we don't touch on the subject of LGBT. We literally, as a gay couple, are teaching this course, but we don't tell them that we're a gay couple. He teaches policing, and I teach the human rights aspects.
Then on the second day, after they've spent a day eating with us, getting to know us, etc., we do the big reveal. That's when we get the questions: “Why don't you have the same last name?” or “Who is the top, who is the bottom?” We get those kinds of invasive questions, which are very inappropriate. We give them the space to ask because we know that for many people this is the first time they are getting that opportunity.
It's not so much for me the content, which I'm sure can be very quickly put together—you know, LGBT 101—but you have to hear from the persons who are experiencing the trauma why it can be like that.