Gender Odyssey 2008: Workshops

Our 2008 Gender Odyssey conference featured more than 75 workshops, presentations, and discussions reflecting the ongoing evolution of transgender lives and communities.

Download the 2008 workshop schedule.

Here's a sampling of last year's programming:

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
• Without Regrets: A Holistic Look at Transition
• FTM Genital Reconstruction: Dr. Meltzer
• Hysterectomy: Dr. Webb
• FTM Top and Bottom Surgery: Dr. Leis
• One-Stage MTF Surgery: Dr. Bowers
• Phalloplasty: Look Before You Leap
• Priming the Pump: Mechanics, Safety and Outcomes of Genital Pumping
• The Feminine Ideal, the Real Me, and Survival in Society: MTF
• Supporting Our Partners and Allies As We Transition
• Designing Our Own Transitions

Older/Post Transition

• Do You Have What it Takes? Role-Modeling in Communities of Color
• Just One of the Guys
• Masculinity and Responsibility: the Flip Side of Privilege
• 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

• The Rules of Attraction
• Bisexuality and Community
• Boys will be Boys: Sex with Non-Transmen
• Introduction to S/M: Getting the Most Out of a Play Party
• Priming the Pump: Mechanics, Safety and Outcomes of Genital Pumping
• Sex and Intimacy: Partners
• Trans on Trans Relationships
• 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
• Being Trans Doesn't Mean You're Crazy (Youth)

Building Community

• Bisexuality and Community
• Buddy Up: Making Connections at the Conference
• Do You Have What it Takes? Role-Modeling in Communities of Color (POC)
• Just One of the Guys
• Masculinity and Responsibility: the Flip Side of Privilege
• No Longer Lost in the Shuffle: Trans and Differently Abled
• What’s Up with Intersex?
• Class Dismissed
• Beyond Shame: Finding Solutions to Dealing With Our Racism
• Wandering for Another 40 Years: Exploring Anti-Jewish Oppression

Legal Issues and Civil Rights

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

Race and Ethnicity

• Privileges and Challenges: The Race/Gender Balancing Act
• Father Stories (POC)
• Do You Have What it Takes? Role-Modeling in Communities of Color (POC)
• It’s Not All Black and White: Interracial and Intergendered Relationships
• Beyond Shame: Finding Solutions to Dealing With Our Racism
• Wandering for Another 40 Years: Exploring Anti-Jewish Oppression
• Navigating Family (POC)

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 You're Crazy
• Dating, Relationships, and Sex For Trans Youth
• Growing Up Trans: Youth Panel
• Know Your Rights in Schools
• Medical Considerations for Youth
• Making and Keeping Friends
• Finding Words: Talking About Your Gender

Partners

• The Rules of Attraction
• Sex and Intimacy: Partners
• Transmale Relationships
• I Do … Or Do I?
• Fasten Your Seatbelts: Our Relationships Transition, Too
• Partner in Transition: From Grief and Loss to Celebration
• It’s Not all Black and White: Interracial and Intergendered Relationships
• My Boyfriend Likes Boys ... Now What?
• She's A Boy I Knew (film)

Leadership and Organizing

• Class Dismissed
• Privileges and Challenges: The Race/Gender Balancing Act
• Grassroots Organizing
• A Little More Light, A Little Less Heat: Working with the Religious Right
• What’s Up with Intersex?
• Supporting Our Partners and Allies As We Transition
• Activism and Organizing Over the Long Haul
• South African Activism, Cultural Perspectives on Gender, and an Opportunity for Global Dialogue
• Beyond Shame: Finding Solutions to Dealing With Our Racism
• Wandering for Another 40 Years: Exploring Anti-Jewish Oppression
• Stand Up Against Bullying: Making Schools Safe

Spirituality

• Double Whammy: Gender and Soul
• A Little More Light, A Little Less Heat: Working With the Religious Right
• 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

• Open 12 Step Meeting
• Class Dismissed
• Tool Kit for Social Change
• Gumby: Do Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Have Flexibility?
• Trans and Aging
• Communicating Bodies: An Exploration of Body Language
• Phat Cat: A Look at Size and Masculinity
• Fatherhood
• Father Stories (POC)
• Genderqueer: Embodying the Space In Between
• Just One of the Guys
• No Longer Lost in the Shuffle: Trans and Differently Abled
• Masculinity and Responsibility: the Flip Side of Privilege
• Navigating the Past to Parent in the Present
• No Apology Necessary: Coming to Terms with Our Masculinity
• The Feminine Ideal, the Real Me, and Survival in Society: MTF
• The Peter Brady Experiment: Effects of Testosterone on the Singing Voice
• Read as a Man … When You Don't Identify That Way
• When a Parent Transitions
• You’re Doing What?! When Your Loved One Transitions
• Trans Families and Pregnancy
• She's A Boy I Knew (film)