Previous Presentations: RI Trans Health Conference

2025 Provider Track

  • Using a Harm Reduction Framework to Address the Unique Challenges Faced by Unhoused Transgender and Gender Diverse Individuals who Engage in Substance Use
  • Roll for Initiative: The Role of Gaming in Trans Youth Identity Formation
  • Prioritizing Comfort for Gender-Diverse Patients during Reproductive Health Procedures
  • The Zebra in the Room: Exploring the prevalence of hypermobility and chronic pelvic pain in the gender diverse community
  • Supporting Trans Sex Workers and Trafficking Survivors in Healthcare Settings
  • Getting to the Heart of Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy
  • Transcending Fear: Cultivating Gender Euphoria in Gender Affirming Care
  • What Does My Gender Look Like?: Expressive Arts Therapies Interventions for Gender Exploration
  • Advances in Transgender Reproductive Health
  • Update on Legal Issues in Transgender Health Care Access
  • “Learning How to Love Me More”: Gender Diversity and Intersections with Disordered Eating and Body Image Issues
  • Gender, Hypermobility, and Neurodiversity: Updates in Research and Practice)

2024 Provider Track

  • Foundations of Gender Diversity & Affirming Care
  • Overview of HIV/STI Prevention for Nonbinary and gender diverse individuals in Rhode Island
  • Bridging the gap: Navigating the transition from pediatric to adult care
  • The Intersection of Cancer Genetics and Trans/Nonbinary Healthcare
  • Procedures in the Care of Transgender Youth
  • Gender Euphoria and Queer Joy: Tapping into the Positive
  • Empowering Intimacy: Navigating Supportive Conversations in Trans Relationships
  • Considerations for Trans Healthcare Providers Working with Trans Patients
  • Adapting Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) Curricula for Transgender and Gender-Diverse Youth & Caregivers
  • Trans Self-Compassion & Shame Resilience for Radical Healing
  • Update on Legal Issues in Transgender Health Care Access – shield laws and beyond
  • Gender Identity, Hypermobility, and Neurodiversity
  • Cultivating Affirming Treatment for LGBTQIA+ Folks with Eating Disorders
  • Perinatal Care for Trans and Non-Binary Patients: Experiences and Best Practices
  • Providing Trans Inclusive Palliative and Hospice Care: Practical Skills for All Clinicians

2025 Community Track

  • The Power of Community: Building Support Networks for Trans Well-Being
  • Family Planning Options and Challenges for the Gender Diverse Community
  • Trans Voice Training with Vocal Team
  • Reclaiming the Body: Finding Gender Euphoria without access to gender-affirming care
  • Gender Affirming Methods: A Risk & Harm Reduction Approach
  • Back to the Basics
  • Ask a Doctor
  • Sensory Exploration, Kink, & Embodiment: Reclaiming Pleasure as a Trans/Nonbinary Person
  • Keeping Each Other Safer: Overdose Prevention and Naloxone Safety Training
  • Advocacy Out Loud
  • Gender Doulas: Gender-Affirming Care and the Role of Doulas
  • Navigating Gender Affirming Surgery

2024 Community Track

  • Ask a Doctor
  • Paths to Authenticity: A Coming Out Panel
  • “Navigating Sex with Cis Men
  • Experiences of Body Euphoria: Outside the Doctor’s Office
  • Fostering Resilience: Empowering Gender-Diverse Youth in the Child Wellbeing System
  • Valuing Gender Diversity in Faith Communities
  • Empowered to Advocate
  • Post-Traumatic Growth for Trans and Gender Diverse People
  • Tools for Self-Advocacy in the Medical and Mental Health System
  • Transcending Boundaries: Navigating Sexual Health and Pleasure
  • Preventing Overdose Deaths In Our Communities
  • HIV/AIDS and Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Education
  • Gender Affirming Voice Training
  • Fertility Preservation for Trans & Gender Diverse Individuals
  • Staying Safe, & Seen in Digital Health Services
  • The Intersections of Abortion Doula Care and Trans Experience
  • 5 Practical Things To Support Healthy Binding

2023 Provider Track

  • What is Gender Affirmative Care? Relevant Medical Information for the Behavioral Health Provider
  • Gender-Affirming Care Under Attack: Confronting Misunderstanding, Misinformation and Lies in Work with Gender Diverse Youth and Families
  • The Intersection of Gender and Neurodivergence
  • Considerations and Approaches to Suicidality in Clinical Work with Gender Diverse People
  • Providing Care Within Community: Navigating Dual Relationships as a Gender Affirming Therapist
  • Family Therapy With Parents of Gender Diverse Youth
  • Gender-Affirming Surgery Referral through a Liberation Lens
  • Medical Care for Non-Binary People
  • “I Just Want to Start Already…”: Review of Developmental Gender Medical Affirmation for Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth
  • Surgical Options for Gender Affirmation: A Review for the Primary Care Provider
  • What Goes Where? STI Prevention among Gender Diverse People
  • Medical and Nutrition Considerations in Transgender and Gender Diverse People With Eating Disorders
  • Optimizing Hormone Therapy: The Role of Long-Acting Testosterone Treatment
  • Breast Cancer Screening and Risk Stratification
  • Gender Affirming Contraception and Menstrual Suppression

2023 Community Track

  • Interdependence: Building Communities of Care
  • New Frontiers in Protections for Transgender Health Care: State Shield Laws
  • Transmasculine Bottom Surgery 101: The Basics
  • Navigating Gender Diversity Within a Relationship
  • History Rhymes: The Rhetoric and Policy of Fascism and Trans Genocide
  • Dilemma Actions Past and Present
  • Exploring the Intersection of Trans Identities and Spiritual Trauma
  • Trans Community Artist Talks
  • A Comprehensive Approach to Trans Allyship
  • Introductory Overview for Allies
  • Choose Your Own Adventure: Exploring Family Building Options and Obstacles for Gender Diverse Individuals and Families
  • Working Towards Safer Schools for Trans Students and Families
  • Supporting Queer Families With Creativity Grit
  • Gender Care in Pediatrics: An Overview
  • Parenting a Trans Kiddo: Perspective from a Parent and Therapist
  • Self Portrait Activity For Youth
  • The Trans Experience Sports Talk
  • Building a Better Future: Overcoming Adversity and Achieving Housing Stability
  • Navigating Name and Gender Marker Changes in Rhode Island
  • Transgender Youth & The Child Welfare System
  • Gender Affirming Surgery: What You Need to Know
  • Supporting Our Trans Loved Ones During Incarceration
  • Knowledge is Power: Resources for Formerly Incarcerated Individuals & Harm Reduction
  • Ocean State A$$: Sex Worker Mutual Aid Q&A
  • Legacy, Legend, Icon: Histories of Trans Femmes of Color