TranscareCultivating Intersex, Trans- and Gender-Diverse Inclusive Education in Healthcare. Feminist, Trans, and Queer Perspectives

Cultivating Intersex, Trans- and Gender-Diverse Inclusive Education in Healthcare. Feminist, Trans, and Queer Perspectives

An interdisciplinary conference to discuss the needs and concerns of intersex, trans and gender-diverse people in health settings and envision gender-affirmative education for healthcare professionals.

Conference programme

13 and 14 September 2024

Brookfield Health Sciences Complex – University College Cork

Cultivating intersex, trans- and gender-diverse inclusive education in healthcare. Feminist, trans, and queer perspectives

Panels and workshops

Panel 1 Trans pregnancy

Chair: Margaret Steele, University College Cork

• Trans/forming Pregnancy: New Perspectives on gender and embodiment – Suki Finn, Royal Holloway University of London
• Trans/parent pregnancy: (in)visibility of gender diversity in reproductive healthcare – Caterina Nirta, Royal Holloway University of London
• The Roots of Gender-Mismatch in Reproductive Care: Pregnancy as (a Lack) Constitutive of Gender – Laura Sjoberg, Royal Holloway, University of London
• Legal aspects of trans pregnancy, birth and parenthood – Simon Indesteege, University of Hasselt

Panel 2 Challenges 1: Mental health/psychology

Chair: Chris Noone, University of Galway

• Decentering Gender Dysphoria – Epistemic Injustice in Trans Medicine – Rory Wilson, University of Edinburgh
• Title TBC – Daire Dempsy, Transgender Equality Network Ireland
• We’re Undone by Each Other: Notes on Being a Trans Therapist Working with Trans Clients – J Fergus Evans, University of Edinburgh
• In a Trans Time and Place: Medical transition, waiting and the politics of time – Matt Kennedy, University College Dublin

Panel 3 Inclusive healthcare practices 1: Needs/Safety/Ethical considerations

Chair: Ciaran Evans, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University College Cork

• Rainbow Ready Pharmacies: An Evaluation of the Educational Needs of Community Pharmacists in the Care of Transgender, Non-Binary and Intersex People – Nicola Cantwell / Nicola De Cantúil, SETU
• Context and Preference When Choosing Dosage Forms in Trans Healthcare: A Review of Available Pharmaceutical and Risk Information in an Irish Context – Sibéal Coll, Trans Healthcare Action; Andrea Crowley, Trans Healthcare Action; Rosaline Keane Kelly, Trans Healthcare Action
• Advancing LGBTQ+ Safety and Inclusion in Health Service Provision in Greater Western Sydney, Australia – Cristyn Davies, University of Sidney, Kerry H. Robinson, Western Sydney University
• Ethical Considerations in Caring for Transgender Patients in Acute and Critical Care: Bridging Knowledge Gaps and Promoting Inclusive Practices – John Gilmore, University College Dublin

Workshops (in person only):

• Workshop 1 – A Reflective Workshop on Gender Affirmative Therapy – Laura Scarrone Bonhomme and Michael Beattie (chair: Angela Flynn, University College Cork)
• Workshop 2 – Building Homes Through Each Other: Creating Community and Care in TLC – Clara Laherty, Raevynna El Messaudi (chair: El Reid-Buckley)
• Workshop 3 – A roundtable discussion of the current state of trans healthcare in Ireland and potential solutions – Trans Healthcare Action

Panel 4 Challenges 2: Midwifery/gynaecology

Chair: valeria venditti, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University College Cork

• Transgender Inclusive Uterus Transplantation – Ji-Young Lee, University of Copenhagen
• Trans and Non-binary People’s Experiences of Accessing and Attending Cervical Screening in the North of England – Georgia Rivers, University of Sheffield
• Toward Gender-Sensitive Education for Midwives in Spain: Challenges and Struggles – Eva Vázquez-Segura, Institut Català de la Salut (Catalan Institute of Health) and University of Barcelona
• From Aesthetics to Injustice: How Feminine Identity Among Midwives Leads to Trans Exclusion – Sarah LaChance Adams, University of North Florida

Panel 5 Inclusive healthcare practices 2: Equity/access/policies

Chair: Caroline Kilty, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University College Cork

• Older Intesex People and the Medical Establishment: barriers to care – Adeline W. Berry, University of Huddersfield
• Anti-trans discourse in British Politics and Media, and the Impact on Trans Health and Healthcare – Lorna Hobbs, independent.
• Barriers to Care for Transgender and Gender Diverse People with Endometriosis; Gaps in Australian and Aotearoa Health Care Provider Curriculum – Sam Jeffrey , Western Sydney University (WSU) National Institute for Complementary Medicine (NICM) Health Research Institute
• Equitable Access to Primary Care for Trans, Non-Binary, and Gender Diverse People – Lorraine McDonagh, University College London.

Panel 6: Narratives 1: Reflections

Chair: Eoin Gorman, University College Cork

• Writing a Transgender History of AIDS in Britain, 1982-1995 – Eliott Rose Thompson, University of Oxford
• Person-centred trans healthcare, from the trials to the clinics: a concept analysis of self-knowledge among trans people – Sibéal Coll, Trans Healthcare Action, Joann Kelleher, Lynne Taylor, Ryan Goulding, University College Cork
• Prism in Prison: A German Non-Binary Person’s Journey through Trauma, Health Care System, (Family) History, Arts, and Politics – Stella Carina Otte, University of Tubingen
• “We Still Have the Same Human Experiences”: Exploring the Therapeutic Space between Transgender* Clients and Therapists – Czara Casey, Trinity College Dublin

Panel 7:  Trans and Gender Diverse youth

Chair: Ryan Goulding, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University College Cork

• Trans and Gender Diverse Children’s Social and Medical Gender Affirmation – Children’s and Families’ Experiences. A Pilot Study – Kerry H. Robinson, Western Sydney University, Dr Cristyn Davies, University of Sydney
• Little Oases: a reading from an auto-theoretical work in progress – Carol Ballantine, University College Dublin.
• Gender-Affirming Medical Treatment for Adolescents: A Critical Reflection on “Effective” Treatment Outcomes – Ezra D. Oosthoek, Center of Expertise on Gender Dysphoria (CEGD), Amsterdam UMC, Skye Stanwich, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Amsterdam UMC
• Exploring non-binary Identity Development through an Interactional Lense – A Qualitative Study – Sahara-Rose Farris, University of Galway

Panel 8 Education

Chair: John Gilmore, University College Dublin

• Health Professional’s Knowledge and Understanding of Inclusive Healthcare – Angela Flynn, University College Cork
• Understanding the Workplace Experiences of Trans and Gender Diverse Healthcare Professionals – Samantha Petric, Western Sydney University
• Gender-Diversity and Inclusion in Midwifery Education: Introducing a Tool to Deconstruct Binary Thinking – Sally Pezaro, Research Centre for Healthcare and Communities at Coventry University
• Critical Cisness – Improving TGD health care through a power critical perspective on allyship – Freddie* Heithoff, University of Cologne/University of Potsdam
• Transgender Inclusive Medical Education – A Student Led Approach – Lucy Cameron, University of Edinburgh, NHS Forth Valley; Tobias Gartner, University of Edinburgh; Zoe Horne, University of Edinburgh, NHS South East England

Panel 9 Narratives 2: Representation

Chair: Katherine O'Donnell, University College Dublin

• Monstrous Subjects: Biopower in Trans and Intersex Subjectivity – Lynne Taylor, University College Dublin
• Situating Intersex: Comparing Representations of variation of sex characteristics in different sociocultural contexts – Marta Prandelli, Dublin City University
• Revealing New Perspectives: The First Positivist Visual Depictions of the Intersex Figure in Le Supplement à L’Encyclopédie (1777) – Perrine Gaudry, Emory University
• Changeling: the subject – Ciara Barnes, independent

Keynote speakers

Professor Sophie Grace Chappell

Dr. Fae Garland & Dr. Mitchell Travis

Rodante van der Waal

Important Dates

The Conference

The conference wants to delineate new educational paths to prepare medical, nursing, and midwifery students to deliver quality care to intersex, trans- and gender-diverse people.

Most of the attempts to deliver of gender affirmative education revolve around the development of modules focused on person-centered care. While these efforts are commendable and necessary, studies have highlighted the need to endow students with a critical perspective that takes into account the systematic oppression to which intersex, trans- and gender-diverse people are exposed. 

This conference aims to encourage the creation of an interdisciplinary network, both within and beyond Ireland, that can support healthcare professionals in engaging with the conceptual and critical aspects of gender diversity in healthcare settings.

To accomplish this, the conference aims to bridge the gap between research carried out in feminist, trans, and queer studies and the delivery of a practice-focused and person-centered perspective that characterizes healthcare education.