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Gender-Variant People and their Families
A Professional Symposium
for Physicians, Nurses, Clergy, Social Workers and Other Helping Professionals www.gendersymposium.org .
Kansas Medical Education Foundation * Stormont-Vail Regional Medical Center
Friday April 21, 2006
8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Stormont-Vail Regional Health Center
Pozez Education Center
1505 SW 8th Avenue
Topeka, Kansas 66606
The speakers are coming from the corners of the country and represent nationally and internationally recognized
experts in tbe fields of biology, medicine, therapy and religion.
Objectives
Hear from transsexual professional experts and a specialist in gender therapy,
Learn about gender-variance from medical, psychological, and spiritual counseling experts.
Understand therapy techniques and issues in working with gender-variant adults, youth, children and their families.
As a result of this symposium, participants will:
Increase their ability to provide effective therapy and support for gender-variant people and their families.
Increase their understanding of terminology and concepts about gender-variance.
Differentiate between biological sex, gender identity, gender role and sexual orientation.
Recognize gender-variance as a normal, but difficult human condition.
Demythologize and depathologize gender variance medically and psychologically.
Increase awareness of societal biases impacting providers impartiality.
The current estimate of the prevalence of transgender is 1:1000 to
1:2000, and births with ambiguous sex 1:2000.
Agenda
Biological Aspects of Gender & Sexuality
Joan Roughgarden, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Professor of Biological Sciences & Ecology
Author of Evolution's Rainbow, winner of the American Library's Stonewall Prize for Nonfiction Literature. Dr.
Roughgarden will discuss her issues with Darwin's theory of sexual selection by proposing alternatives based upon
experimental observation of a number of animal species. Her research indicates that diversity in all of nature
is natural and healthy. Professor Roughgarden transitioned from male to female and had Gender Reassignment Surgery
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Medical & Psychological Issues of the Transition Process
D. Beth Ryan, MD, MS
Reynolds Army Community Hospital
Lawton, OK
Dr. Ryan will share her experiences, both personal and medical, in going through Gender Reassignment Surgery and
transitioning from male to female. During this process, she retained her position as a civilian physician in the
Army hospital. Her Masters in Psychology thesis is based on the medical & psychological Issues of the transition
process. Dr. Ryan is a member of the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association which formulates
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Medical Biology of Transsexualism & Ambiguous Sex
Susan Menking, MD
Pediatrician
Wichita, KS
Dr. Menking has been an active and popular speaker conducting workshops on the Biology of Homosexuality and Transgender.
Prior to her retirement in 1991, she was a teaching patient attendant at Wesley Pediatric Clinic for the University
of Kansas and lecturer at Wichita State University. She is married to Manfred Menking, MD a retired pediatric endocrinologist.
Spiritual Counseling to Gender-Variant People, Family or Others
Panel members:
• Sister Luisa Derouen of Tucson, AZ, Spiritual and Retreat Director
• Rabbi Lawrence P. Karol of Temple Beth Sholom of Topeka
• Rev. Lisa Romantum Schwartz, Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Topeka
Panel Presentation Q & A
Moderator: Arlene Istar Lev, LCSW, CASAC
• Benedette Koslover, a male to female transexual
• T. Michael Henderson, MS, a female to male transsexual
• Laura Hamm, an intersexual person
• Jane & Helen Newman, who have been in a 50 year marriage - Jane being a transsexual woman
• Paul & Deborah Russell, parents of a female to male transsexual |
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Therapy Issues in Working with Gender-Variant & Ambiguous Sexed Clients & Family
Arlene Istar Lev, LCSW, CASAC
Therapist, Author, Adjunct Professor
State University of New York,
Albany, N.Y
Author of Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working with Gender-Variant People and Their Families
and Complete Gay and Lesbian Parenting Guide, Lev specializes in the treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender
clients. Her presentation will focus on the developmental issues among Transgender (Gender-Variant) and Ambiguous
Sexed clients and family, parenting issues, training for therapists, and working with Transyouth or the Intersexed
(Ambiguous Sexed persons). Lev is a member of the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association. |
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Spiritual Counseling to Gender-Variant People, Family or Others
Panel members:
• Sister Luisa Derouen of Tucson, AZ, Spiritual and Retreat Director
• Rabbi Lawrence P. Karol of Temple Beth Sholom of Topeka
• Rev. Lisa Romantum Schwartz, Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Topeka
Panel Presentation Q & A
Moderator: Arlene Istar Lev, LCSW, CASAC
• Benedette Koslover, a male to female transexual
• T. Michael Henderson, MS, a female to male transsexual
• Laura Hamm, an intersexual person
• Jane & Helen Newman, who have been in a 50 year marriage - Jane being a transsexual woman
• Paul & Deborah Russell, parents of a female to male transsexual
Therapy Issues in Working with Gender-Variant & Ambiguous Sexed Clients & Family
Arlene Istar Lev, LCSW, CASAC
Therapist, Author, Adjunct Professor
State University of New York,
Albany, N.Y
Author of Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working with Gender-Variant People and Their Families
and Complete Gay and Lesbian Parenting Guide, Lev specializes in the treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender
clients. Her presentation will focus on the developmental issues among Transgender (Gender-Variant) and Ambiguous
Sexed clients and family, parenting issues, training for therapists, and working with Transyouth or the Intersexed
(Ambiguous Sexed persons). Lev is a member of the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association.
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Accreditation
The Kansas Medical Education Foundation designates this educational activity for a maximum of 7 hours in Category
1 credit toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that
he/she actually spends in the educational activity.
For other accreditation information, please call (785) 354-5825.
Fees
• KMEF Member: Included in Dues
- Luncheon $ 5.00
• Non-KMEF Member: (Luncheon Included) $50.00
• Health Professional Students (Luncheon Included) $25.00
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