(Re)Thinking Trans Healthcare:

  • 29 March 2019
  • 10:00am
  • Free

On 29 March 2019, the University of Bristol – in partnership with the Trans Equality Legal Initiative (TELI) and Mermaids – is holding an inter-disciplinary conference, ‘(Re)Thinking Trans Healthcare: Bridging the Gap between Policy, Practitioner and Patient.’ The conference is generously supported by PolicyBristol, the Centre for Health, Law and Society and the Bioethics, Biolaw and Biosociety Research Strand of the Elizabeth Blackwell Institute, funded by the Wellcome Trust, University of Bristol.

The conference seeks to create space for individuals with a particular speciality and interest in trans healthcare to share ‘best practice’ knowledge (and to think about what that knowledge is) for the provision of treatment, both general and specialised, to trans populations.

Topics addressed during the conference include gender affirmative care for young people, trans healthcare inequalities, non-binary treatment protocols, male pregnancy, trans ageing, and medico-legal reforms.

The conference is aimed at a wide audience and has two core aims: (a) to ‘bridge the gap’ between service providers, policy-makers, service users and academics; and (b) to identify key gaps in existing knowledge surrounding trans healthcare, thinking about ways in which relevant stakeholders can work together to fill those gaps.

A detailed summary of the conference speakers, aims and proceeding can be found here: Bridging the Gap Conference – University of Bristol (29 March 2019) (PDF, 160kB)

There is no cost to attend the conference and lunch will be provided. To attend the conference, please send your expression of interest to Dr Peter Dunne ([email protected]). We look forward to welcoming you on 29 March!

Programme

  • 09:30 – 10:00 Registration/Tea and Coffee
  • 10:00 – 10:15 Introduction
  • 10:15 – 10:30 Keynote
  • 10:30 – 11:35 Session 1: Children’s Access to Medical Transition Pathways through a Model of Informed Consent?
  • 11:45 – 13:00 Session 2: Secondary Care: The Difficulties which Trans Individuals Experience Accessing Health Care
  • 13:00 – 14:00 Lunch (with invited student break-out sessions)
  • 14:00 – 15:10 Session 3: Trans Healthcare Inequalities: Presentation Fair
  • 15:30 – 16:45 Session 4: Intersections of Law, Medicine and Trans Identities
  • 16:45 – 17:00 Concluding Remarks

Image courtesy Ross Burgess under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

(Re)Thinking Trans Healthcare: Bridging the Gap between Policy, Practitioner and Patient

Lady Hale Moot Court Room, 8-10 Berkeley Square, University of Bristol

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