Friday, 11th September

Room

(BHSC_)

Chair

9:15-10:00

Registration

Ground floor

10:00-10:30

Opening

_G.05

10:30-11:30

Keynote 🌐

Sally Pezaro & John Pendleton

_G.05 (+online)

Valeria Venditti

11:30-12:00

Break

12:00-13:30

Panel 1: Trans Bodies in Clinical Settings

• Sean Kearns — Surgery Abroad, Recovery at Home: Complications, Follow-Up and Lived Experience after Gender-Affirming Genital Surgery
• Athina Tripli — Gender Identity Development in People Diagnosed with Klinefelter Syndrome: A Longitudinal Analysis
• Harry Ainscough — Trans Rage & Testosterone
• Vivyen B. Sağsen — Relational Autobiographical Memory in Dementia Care for Trans Adults 🌐

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Jes Black

Panel 2: Epistemic (In)Justice: Knowledge, Evidence and Power

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• Adeline Whittney Berry — Art as a Tool for Tackling Transgender and Intersex Epistemic Injustice
• Chris Noone — Weaponised Uncertainty, Chronopolitics and Strategic Ignorance: Cis-Exceptionalism in the Application of Evidence-Based Medicine to Gender Affirming Care
• Jamison Jewkes — Subject-Mediation, Autonomy, and Social Groups: An Account of the Injustice of Waiting for Trans Healthcare
• Sofia Amanda Puscareov — Epistemic Injustice in the Process of Validating the Sexual Transmissibility of Bacterial Vaginosis

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(+online)

Ezra D. Oosthoek

Workshop 1

Ash Bainbridge and Nat Boxall
Horizontal Lactation Care: Taking the Power Back to Protect, Promote and Support Human Milk

_304

13:30-14:30

Lunch break

14:30-16:00

Panel 3: Methodologies as Care

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• Muhammad Ali Awan — Methodology as Care and Epistemic Justice: From Hijra Ethnography in Pakistan to Trans-Inclusive UHC Research in Ireland
• Kayden J. Schumacher — Transformative Methodologies: Restorative Approaches to Researching with Transgender and Gender-Diverse Communities
• Eva Vázquez-Segura — Queering Narrative Productions: Methodology as a Practice of Epistemic Care
• James Beirne — The Problem with 'Queer Data': Epistemologies and Best Practices for Queer Trans Healthcare

_302 (+online)

Ciaran Eavans

Panel 4: Trans-Inclusive Education in Healthcare

• John P. Gilmore — Authentic Allyship for Trans and Gender Diverse People: A Patterns of Knowing Perspective in Nursing
• Marissa Jayne Dainton — Inclusion of Trans and Non-Binary Health in Pre-Registration Nurse Education
• Giulia di Falco — The Philosophical Foundations of Midwifery: An Integrative Review on Disciplinary Identity and Gender
• Jacob Stokoe — Using Lived Experience to Humanise and Normalise Trans Experiences to Healthcare Providers within Perinatal Care

_304

Valeria Venditti

Workshop 2

Leslie Worrell, Applying the Cyclic Structural Bias Model: Mapping and Disrupting Multilevel Bias in Health Systems

_105

16:00-16:20

Break

16:20-17:50

Panel 5: Making as Knowing: Creative Methodologies

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• Fiona Evangeline Leigh — Freedom through Fracture: An Inquiry into the Trans* Art of Existence
• Jes Black — Ukulele Endocrinology: Experiences of Novel Pedagogical Approaches within the Trans Community
• Cedar James Monroe — Co-Creation in Trans/Ecology: Using Participatory and Artistic Methodologies to Ask How Trans Experience Can Speak to Larger Social Crises
• Carol Ballantine — Being Various: Creative Resources for Gender Diversity in Childhood

_302 (+online)

Marissa Dainton

Workshop 3

Rachel Hubbard Voices from the Bathroom: Co-Creating Space to Amplify Trans Experiences of Continence-Related Social and Medical Injustice

_304

Workshop 4

Ryan Biskupović-Goulding Body Mapping as a Participatory Research Method: An Interactive Workshop

_105

19:30

Dinner

Saturday, 12th of September

10:00-11:30

Panel 6: Access, Resistance and Community Knowledge

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• Matty Kennedy — Creative Resistance: The Collective Resilience Strategies of Trans and Gender Diverse Youth
• River Isleib — Breaking Good: Queered Episteme in Irish Deinstitutional Transgender Hormonal Medicine
• Kylo Thomas — 'I Get to Have Control of My Body in a World that Tries to Take it from me Every Day': Fugitivity, DIYing, and Trans Healthcare Beyond the State
• Rhea Bose — Trans Communities in India and the Question of Access to Medicalised Gender Affirmative Care, in the Light of the Trans Act 2026

_301 (+online)

Ryan Biskupović-Goulding

Panel 7: Caring fables: Consent, Trauma and Clinical Encounter

• Ezra Oosthoek — The Fiction of Prior Knowledge: Rethinking Informed Consent in Adolescent Gender-Affirming Medical Care
• Skye Stanwich — Disentangling Trauma: An Analysis of Curative Imaginaries in Gender-Affirming Medical Care for Youth
• Lorraine McDonagh — Stories Between Us: Co-Designing a Storybank to Move Community Knowledge into Everyday Primary Care Practice
• Rachel Gartner — Centering gender Affirming Resources in Education (CARE): Engaging co-design strategies to build community centered approaches to alcohol-involved sexual violence

_302

TBC

Workshop 5

Siobhán Fergus Evans, Moving Without

_304

11:30-12:00

Break

12:00-13:00

Keynote 🌐

Surya Monro

_G.10 (+online)

 PATHI

13:00-14:00

Lunch

14:00-15:30

Workshop 6

Daire Dempsey Who's Driving This Plane? How We Can Make Research Work for the Trans Community

_301

Workshop 7

Sibéal Coll / PATHI Providers Training Working Group PATHI Providers Training: Foundations Module Workshop

_303

15:40-16:40

Play time – one hour of artistic experimentation

_301 & _303

16:40-17:00

Closing remarks

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