Workshops

Gender Odyssey is a collaborative effort: we offer our heartfelt thanks to each of this year's presenters and facilitators for bringing their skills, experience, and knowledge to Seattle for three amazing days of interaction and community building.

The 2008 conference will offer more than 70 workshops, presentations, and discussions reflecting the ongoing evolution of transgender lives and communities. Be sure to arrange your travel plans to include three full days of workshops and events running from Saturday August 30th through Monday September 1st.

Here's a sampling of the programming you can expect at this year's conference:

Considering or In Transition

• All About T
• Legal Issues 101
• Surgical Options for Changing the Voice: Dr. Thomas
• Chest Surgery Show and Tell
• Contemplating Physical Transition
• FTM Chest Reconstruction: Dr. Brownstein
• FTM Genital Reconstruction: Dr. Meltzer
• Hysterectomy: Dr. Webb
• FTM Top and Bottom Surgery: Dr. Leis
• Phalloplasty
• Priming the Pump: Mechanics, Safety and Outcomes of Genital Pumping

Older/Post Transition

• Do You Have What it Takes? Role-Modeling in Communities of Color
• Just One of the Guys
• Masculinity and Responsibility
• No Longer Lost in the Shuffle: Trans and Differently Abled
• Trans and Aging
• Fatherhood
• Navigating the Past to Parent in the Present
• No Apology Necessary: Coming to Terms with Our Masculinity
• Legal Issues 201

Intimacy, Sex, and Relationships

• Bisexuality and Community
• Boys will be Boys: Sex with Non-Transmen
• Gumby: Do Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Have Flexibility?
• Intro to S/M
• Priming the Pump: Mechanics, Safety and Outcomes of Genital Pumping
• Sex and Intimacy: Partners
• Trans on Trans Couples
• Fag 101: The Invisible Man
• Who Am I Again? Shifting Sexuality

Health

• 12 Step Meeting
• Trans and Aging
• Head to Toe Health
• No Longer Lost in the Shuffle: Trans and Differently Abled
• Trans Mental Health
• Traditional Healer or Transgender?

Building Community

• Bisexuality and Community
• Buddy Up: Making Connections at the Conference
• Do You Have What it Takes? Role-Modeling in Communities of Color
• Just One of the Guys
• Masculinity and Responsibility
• No Longer Lost in the Shuffle: Trans and Differently Abled
• What’s Up with Intersex?

Legal Issues and Civil Rights

• A Little More Light, A Little Less Heat: Working with the Religious Right
• Creating Allies for Trans Youth
• Gender Identity Discrimination
• Getting Transgender Rights to Congress
• Information Privacy and Identity Documents
• Legal Issues 101
• Legal Issues 201
• Planned Obsolescence: Creating a New Paradigm Beyond GID

Race and Ethnicity

• Do You Have What it Takes? Role-Modeling in Communities of Color
• It’s Not All Black and White: Interracial and Intergendered Relationships
• Beyond Shame: Anti-Oppression Work for White People
• Wandering for Another 40 Years: Exploring Anti-Jewish Oppression

Youth

• I’m Sick of High School: Getting Into College — and Paying For It
• Stand Up Against Bullying: Making Schools Safe
• Being Trans Doesn't Mean I'm Crazy
• Sex and Dating For Trans Youth
• From the Horse's Mouth: Youth Panel
• Know Your Rights in Schools
• Medical Considerations for Youth
• Disclosure: Empowering Ways to Discuss Your Gender

Partners

• Sex and Intimacy: Partners
• Trans on Trans Couples
• I Do … Or Do I?
• Fasten Your Seatbelts: Our Relationships Transition, Too

Spirituality

• Double Whammy: Gender and Soul
• Traditional Healer or Transgender?
• Transfigurations: Transgender Bible Stories?
• Wandering for Another 40 Years: Exploring Anti-Jewish Oppression
• You’re Either In or Out: Religion, Exile and the Third Way

Living Life

• 12 Step Meeting
• A Little More Light, A Little Less Heat: Working with the Religious Right
• Trans and Aging
• Communicating Bodies: An Exploration of Body Language
• Phat Guy: A Look at Size and Masculinity
• Fatherhood
• Father Stories
• Genderqueer: Embodying the Space In Between
• Just One of the Guys
• No Longer Lost in the Shuffle: Trans and Differently Abled
• Masculinity and Responsibility
• Navigating the Past to Parent in the Present
• No Apology Necessary: Coming to Terms with Our Masculinity
• The Peter Brady Experiment: Effects of Testosterone on the Singing Voice
• Read as a Man
• Through the Eye of the Lens: Creating Great Video
• Transgender and Claiming Space in the Moving Image
• What’s Up with Intersex?
• When a Parent Transitions
• You’re Doing What?! When Your Loved One Transitions
• Trans Families and Pregnancy