The TransPride YOUniting Health and Wellness Conference seeks proposals for their upcoming conference from Oct. 5-7 in Pittsburgh. This conference aims to bring together community, professionals, families, educators, allies, advocates, and supporters and rallying against anti-transgender issues by centering the lives and lived experiences of the transgender, gender diverse, and gender non-conforming people.
Dr. Liz Miller's recent research shows that nonbinary and transmasculine adolescents are experiencing more non-affirming health care experiences than transfeminine adolescents. These negative and non-affirming experiences create health care and well visit avoidance. Healthcare systems need to address their disrespect and refusal of care as well as proactively train and educate their providers to support the transcommunity with competent and affirming care.
We worked with Pitt's Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion on The Intersections of Inequity, Justice, and Health: Reproductive Autonomy for All as part of the 2022 Diversity Forum. Meet our amazing panelists:
Dr. Miller's recent publication shows the impacts of the pervasive and harmful narratives used to weaponize transgender identities in contemporary political discourse and the ongoing need for gender transformative sexual violence prevention programs.
Read more about this study here: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2792864
M.O.G.I will host a panel that centers around the transgender Pitt community on how we can move beyond names and pronouns.
Register here: https://dietrichschoolgendersexualityandwomensstudies.cmail20.com/t/j-l-zkriyc-iulktrtril-d/
Faculty member Michele Levine, PhD, recently published on body dissatisfaction and disordered eating experienced as a result of dissonance between physical bodies and felt sense of gender in transgender adolescents.
Dr. Kazmerski, Dr. Miller, and their team surveyed parents and caregivers about proposed bills to ban gender-affirming medical interventions for minors in the U.S. and the perceived effects on their transgender youth's mental health.
