FIRST BIENNIAL CONFERENCE OF THE
EUROPEAN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR TRANSGENDER HEALTH
WWW.EPATH.EU
“Transgender Health Care in Europe”
March 12 – 14, 2015, Ghent (Belgium)
PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE PROGRAM
HOSTS
LOCATION
Center for Sexology and Gender
University Hospital Ghent
De Pintelaan 185, 9000 Ghent, BELGIUM
Convention Center Het Pand
Onderbergen 1, 9000 Ghent
Belgium
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Overview
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE .......................................................................................................................... 3
Organising Committee..................................................................................................................... 3
Stream coordinators ........................................................................................................................ 3
PROGRAM OVERVIEW................................................................................................................................... 4
Thursday March 12, 2015 ........................................................................................................................ 4
10:00
Registration desks opens - Monastery “Het Pand” ...................................................... 4
13:00 – 13:20
Opening of the conference................................................................................... 4
13:20 – 13:30
Announcement of EPATH Student Initiative ........................................................ 4
13:30 – 14:00 Plenary Session I: Henriette Delemarre Memorial Lecture .................................. 4
14:00 – 15:30
Stream Sessions I .................................................................................................. 4
15:30 – 17:00 Coffee break & Attended Poster Session .............................................................. 6
17:00 – 18:00 Meeting & Networking Opportunities .................................................................. 6
18:00 – 22:00 Public Plenary Session: Human Rights and Health Care in Europe ....................... 6
Friday March 13, 2015............................................................................................................................. 7
09:00 – 10:45 Plenary Session II: Transgender Health Care in Europe ........................................ 7
10:45 – 11:15
Coffee break ......................................................................................................... 7
11:15 – 12:45
Multidisciplinary Workshops - part I ................................................................... 7
12:45 – 13:30
Lunch .................................................................................................................... 8
13:30 – 15:30
Stream Sessions II ................................................................................................. 8
15:30 – 16:00
Coffee break ....................................................................................................... 10
16:00 – 18:00
Multidisciplinary Workshops - part II ................................................................. 10
18:00 – 19:30
Meeting & Networking Opportunities ............................................................... 11
20:00 – …….
Dinner & Party ..................................................................................................... 11
Saturday March 14, 2015 ...................................................................................................................... 12
08:30
Opening of reception desk ............................................................................................ 12
9:00 – 10:45
Plenary Session IV: The Year in Review ................................................................ 12
10:45 – 11:15
Coffee break ....................................................................................................... 12
11:15 – 12:45
Stream Sessions III .............................................................................................. 12
12:45 - 13:00
Closing ceremony ................................................................................................ 14
14:00 – 17:00
Meeting & networking opportunities ................................................................ 14
SPONSERS .............................................................................................................................................. 15
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SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Organising Committee
Guy T’Sjoen, Griet De Cuypere, Stan Monstrey, Guy Bronselaer and Joz Motmans (Belgium), Timo
Nieder (Germany), Annelou De Vries (the Netherlands), and Walter Bouman (UK).
Stream coordinators
The stream convenors consist of a small group of known specialists in their discipline/field who
together are responsible for the selection of abstracts, as well as for setting up the (clinical) trainings
within their discipline.
Mental Health
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Baudewijntje Kreukels (The Netherlands)
Cecilia Dhejne (Sweden)
Dragana Duisin (Serbia)
Esther Gomez-Gil (Spain)
Şahika Yūksel (Istanbul, Turkey)
Walter Pierre Bouman (UK)
Endocrinology
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Alessandra Fisher (Italy)
Yona Greenman (Israel)
Isabel Esteva (Spain)
Malene Hilden (Denmark)
Guy T’Sjoen (Belgium)
Chiara Manieri (Italy)
Social sciences
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Zowie Davy (UK)
Janneke van der Ros (Norway)
Joz Motmans (Belgium)
Children and adolescents
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Jiska Ristori (Italy)
Polly Carmichael (UK)
Birgit Moller (Germany)
Annelou de Vries (the Netherlands)
Karlien D’Hondt (Belgium)
Kaltiala-Heino Riittakerttu (Finland)
Law
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Stephen Whittle (UK)
Gerd Verschelden (Belgium)
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Alexander Schuster (Italy)
Alecs Recher (Switzerland)
Voice and communication
• Maria Södersten (Sweden)
• Christella Antoni (UK)
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Alexandros N. Constansis (UK)
John Van Borsel (Belgium)
Surgery
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Stan Monstrey (Belgium)
Miroslav Djordjevic (Serbia)
The conference is organised in partnership with the World Professional Association for Transgender
Health (www.wpath.org).
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PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Thursday March 12, 2015
10:00
Registration desks opens - Monastery “Het Pand”
13:00 – 13:20
Opening of the conference
Guy T’Sjoen, Joz Motmans, Timo O. Nieder
13:20 – 13:30
Announcement of EPATH Student Initiative
Silvano Barbieri & Jonas Björklund
13:30 – 14:00
Plenary Session I: Henriette Delemarre Memorial
Lecture
“Youth with gender incongruence: Culture and future”
by Peggy Cohen-Kettenis (Department of Medical Psychology,
VU University Medical Center, the Netherlands)
Chair: Guy T’Sjoen
14:00 – 15:30
Stream Sessions I
All streams will have parallel sessions
STREAM MENTAL HEALTH
Session 1
Annelou L.C. de Vries
Sheraz Ahmad
Dragana Duisin
Anna van der Miesen
Laurence Claes
Epidemiology, assessment and comorbidity
Chair: Jon Arcelus
Increase of referrals to gender identity clinics: A European trend?
Five year progress and outcome for all patients assessed at the
Charing Cross Gender Identity Clinic, UK, 2009
Role and importance of mental health professionals in the
assessment of gender dysphoric persons
Gender variance in adults with autism spectrum disorder
Non-suicidal self-injury in Trans people: Associations with
psychological symptoms, victimizations, interpersonal functioning
and Perceived social support
STREAM CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
Session 1a
Specific issues in health care of children and adolescents with
gender dysphoria
Chair: Kaltiala-Heino Riittakerttu
Patrizia Petiva
Sally Phillott
Carl Åkerlund
Maria Sumia
Family therapy with GID adolescents
Family Days: Providing innovative psychosocial support to gender
variant youth and their families in the UK
Setting up a peer to peer, email based support system for trans
youth: experience, challenges and possibilities
Early pubertal timing is common among adolescents SR applicants
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Lieke Vrouenraets
Early medical treatment of children with gender dysphoria: An
empirical ethical study on arguments of proponents and opponents
concerning early interventions
Session 1b
Research updates
Chair: Karlien Dhondt
Sarah Burke
Sex-typical and sex-atypical white matter microstructure in gender
dysphoric children and adolescents- a diffusion Tensor Imaging study
A parent-report gender identity questionnaire for children:
preliminary analysis of the Italian version
Psychological support and puberty suppression improve global
functioning in transsexual adolescents
An investigation of body image satisfaction in young people: a
comparison of persons with features of gender dysphoria and a nonclinical sample
Body Experiences of Gender Variant Adolescents
Angela Caldarera
Rosalia Costa
India Webb
Inga Becker
STREAM ENDOCRINOLOGY
Session 1a
Maria Cristina Meriggiola
Maartje Klaver
Angelines Vidales Miguélez
Daniel Klink
Leighton Seal
Effects of hormonal treatment
Chair: Malene Hilden
Safety and efficacy of cyproterone acetate or GnRH analogs plus
transdermal estradiol in transgender persons
Specific effects of different forms of cross-sex hormone therapy on
body weight in transgender people
Cross-sex hormone treatment (CHT) and cumulative incidence of
Metabolic Syndrome in Spanish transsexual population: 5 years
follow-up
Increased ambulatory blood pressure in adolescents with gender
dysphoria treated with gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogues
Self-medication in trans people is not associated with deterioration in
cardiovascular risk factors but is associated with reduced vitamin D
levels and antidepressant use
Session 1b
European views on hormonal therapy
Chair: Yona Greenman
Jesus Perez-Luis
Prevalence of transsexualism in the province of Santa Cruz de
Tenerife
A twenty year follow up study of transsexualism in Serbia
Primary care monitoring for patients on hormones in Northern
Ireland
Oestrogen implant as an alternative form of hormone replacement
therapy in trans women; testosterone implant in trans men: efficacy
and safety
Svetlana Vujovic
David Bell
Ye Kyaw
STREAM SOCIAL SCIENCES
Session 1
Amets Suess
Fabio Barbone
Ethical aspects in social trans research
Chair: Janneke van der Ros
Patients, Research Objects or Co-Researchers? Research Ethics in
Trans* Studies
Epidemiologic considerations on transsexualism
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Nuno Pinto
STREAM LAW
Session 1
Constantin Cojocariu
Peter Dunne
Anniken Sørlie
Eszter Kismödi
Alecs Recher
Trans* / sexualities: a controversial issue
Representing transsexuality and transsexual people: The public
debate on an innovative law for legal gender recognition
Legal aspects of transgender health care
Chair: Gerd Verschelden
Legal standards on transgender health care in prison in Europe from a
comparative perspective
Unlawful pathology: judicial limits on the medicalization of
transgender identities in Europe
Trans children’s right to recognition and self-determination
Legal, policy and human rights implications of ICD changes on
transgender health care
“Thanks for helping my patient!” An example of successful
collaboration between activists, health and legal professionals
15:30 – 17:00
Coffee break & Attended Poster Session
17:00 – 18:00
Meeting & Networking Opportunities
18:00 – 22:00
Public Plenary Session: Human Rights and
Health Care in Europe
Chair: Joz Motmans
Welcome addresses
Key notes:
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“Youth with gender incongruence: culture and future”
by Peggy Cohen-Kettenis (Department of Medical Psychology, VU University Medical
Center, the Netherlands)
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"Fertility options for trans people"
by Petra De Sutter (Head Dept. Reproductive Medicine, University Hospital Gent, Belgium)
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"Trans health care in Europe: findings from the FRA EU LGBT survey"
by Dennis van der Veur (European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights): video conference
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"Human rights for trans people: taking stock of where we are in Europe"
by Richard Köhler (TGEU)
This session is open for the public & followed by reception and announcement of Poster Award.
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Friday March 13, 2015
09:00 – 10:45
Plenary Session II: Transgender Health Care in
Europe
Chair: Griet De Cuypere
Six gender teams present the organisation of the clinical practices for trans health care in their
country. This recurrent part of the EPATH conference will each time give room to countries from
different parts of Europe. For this year the following countries were invited:
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Belgium: Els Elaut (Centre for Sexology and Gender, UZ Ghent)
Germany: Timo O. Nieder (Clinic for Sexual Health and Transgender Care, Interdisciplinary
Transgender Health Care Center Hamburg)
Israel: Yona Greenman (Institute of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Tel Aviv Medical Center)
Spain: Clara de Castro (Hospital Clinic Barcelona)
Turkey: Şahika Yüksel (INCA Istanbul)
United Kingdom: John Dean (Devon Partnership NHS Trust).
10:45 – 11:15
Coffee break
11:15 – 12:45
Multidisciplinary Workshops - part I
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Melting Pot: Benefits of multidisciplinary
team working in transgender health care
Country
UK (London)
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NL (Amsterdam)
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Presenters
P. Lenihan
J. Barrett
L. Seal
S. Lorimer
R. Dundas
S. Oxlade
Challenges in Transgender Youth Health
J. L. Sandberg
Care in two European Countries:
D.T. Klink
Multidisciplinary Experiences and
W.F. Preuss
Perspectives from the Amsterdam and the S. Fahrenkrug
Hamburg Consultation Services for
I. Becker
Children and Adolescents
Standards of Care 7.x: Questions for the
Dan Karasic
next revision
Lin Fraser
J. Vreer Verkerke
Other panelists:
E. Coleman
P. Cohen-Kettenis
V. Tangpricha
S. Monstrey
Moral Case Deliberation to solve complex M.C. de Vries
treatment cases
B.C. Molewijk
A. Balleur-van Rijn
Reforming Transgender Health Care
A. Radix
through the Informed Consent Model
M. Deutsch
GER (Hamburg)
USA (San Francisco)
NL (Amsterdam)
NL (Amsterdam)
USA (New York)
(San Francisco)
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Religion and Transgender Health
S. Yüksel
Y. Greenman
A. Kirey
Y. Vas Dias Postma
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Introductory Workshop I:
Transgender Health Care for Adults
W.P. Bouman
G. T´Sjoen
D. Markovic Zigic
12:45 – 13:30
Lunch
13:30 – 15:30
Stream Sessions II
TUR (Istanbul)
ISR (Tel Aviv)
Kyrgyzstan
(Bishkek)
NL (Amsterdam)
UK (Nottingham)
BE (Gent)
SRB (Belgrade)
All streams will have parallel sessions.
STREAM MENTAL HEALTH
Session 2a
Jon Arcelus
Nataša Jokic Begic
Alessandra Fisher
Davide Dettore
Koray Basar
Marco Colizzi
Quality of life, discrimination and abuse
Chair: Cecilia Dhejne
Predictors of Psychological Wellbeing
Being transsexual in Croatia
Transphobia and homophobia levels in general population, health
care providers and in gender dysphoria individuals
Internalized Trans-negativity: towards the development of an
instrument of measure
Perceived discrimination and quality of life of transgender individuals
in Turkey
Dissociative symptoms in transsexual individuals: is the elevated
prevalence real?
Session 2b
Treatment, transition and support
Chair: Baudewijntje Kreukels
Titia Beek
Motives behind non-classical treatment requests in transgender
individuals
People who de-transition: Themes from a case note review
Sexual functioning in applicants for gender-confirming treatment: A
European multicenter follow-up study
Gender variant youth, school drop-out and perceived quality of
family relations
Is testosterone treatment associated with high levels of anger
expression in trans men?
Interpersonal functioning among trans individuals and the role of
Interpersonal Psychotherapy
Andrew Davies
Els Elaut
Sarah Finzi
Chiara Crespi
Jon Arcelus
STREAM CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
Session 2
Sharing clinical experiences in different European countries
Chair: Jiska Ristori
Chiara Baietto
Martinez-Tudela
Gender dysphoria in childhood and adolescence and psychological
development: clinical records
Position Statement: SIAMS- SIE- SIEDP-ONIG Consensus on medical
treatment in gender dysphoric adolescents
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Jiska Ristori
Birgit Möller
Şahika Yüksel
Clara de Castro
STREAM ENDOCRINOLOGY
Session 2
Alessandra Fisher
Florian Schneider
Elena Castellona
Darshi Sivakuram
Iffy Middleton
Aye Naing
STREAM SOCIAL SCIENCES
Session 2
Janneke van der Ros
Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad
Zowie Davy
Myrte Dierckx
Jonas Björklund
Udo Rauchfleisch
Preliminary data on adolescents with gender dysphoria at the Unit in
the AOU-Careggi
Gender dysphoria in children and adolescents, associated mental
health problems, treatment experiences and wishes for improvement
of transgender health care in Germany
Working with gender dysphoric adolescents: an experience from
Turkey
A descriptive study of children and adolescents with gender
dysphoria who asked for public health service at the Gender Identity
Unit of Catalonia, Spain
Hormone induced changes
Chair: Josh Safer
Time needed for cross-sex hormonal treatment to induce physical
changes and to improve gender dysphoria in MtF individuals
Clinical characterization of patients with gender dysphoria
undergoing sex-reassignment surgery (SRS) focusing on testicular
functions
Sexual functioning in trans women after SRS: the CIDIGem
experience.
A retrospective study on the use of androgen therapy in trans women
to treat HSSD.
Endometrial hyperplasia in trans men-to scan or not to scan?
Is polycytemia a marker of high cardiovascular risk in trans men?
The politics of trans* health & trans parenting
Chair: Joz Motmans
Citizenship by diagnosis? The social dimension of citizenship and
trans* related health care provision in social democratic welfare
regimes: the case of Norway
Proceedings and conclusions from the Norwegian expert group on
transgender health
Democratizing diagnoses: (trans*)forming the DSM-5 and ICD-11
The effects of having a trans parent on children and their
psychosocial well-being
Experiences of children with parental transition – Results of a
qualitative media analysis using online sources
Future aspects of "treating" transgender persons
STREAM VOICE AND COMMUNICATION
Session 2
Male-to-female transsexual voice
Chair: Alexandros N. Constansis
Astrid Thybo
Maria Södersten
Irene F. Kling
Translation of the self- evaluation instrument Transsexual Voice
Questionnaire (Male-to-Female) (TVQMtF) from English to Danish
Translation, test of reliability and validity of the Swedish version of
the Transsexual Voice Questionnaire Male-to-Female (TVQMtF)
The contribution of Motor Learning Theory to voice modification: the
transgender client
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Victoria Kelly
Matthew Mills
Tatiana Zborovskaya
STREAM SURGERY
Session 2
Joke A.M. Groot
Carlo Trombeta
Hannes Sigurjonsson
Luis Capitan
Marta Bizic
Effects of pitch-raising surgery in trans women. A long-term follow-up
study of acoustic data and self-evaluations
Lived experience: a service evaluation of the Voice Group Programme
at Charing Cross Gender Identity Clinic
The point of no identity: linguocultural impact on transgender mental
health
MTF surgery, steps to patient's satisfaction
Chair: Miroslav Djordjevic
Transgender with good pelvic floor muscle functions, what does it
mean?
The neourethroclitoroplasty: our experience and results.
Solely penile skin vaginoplasty for male to female gender
reassignment surgery – preliminary results of vaginal depth
measurement of 60 patients
Facial Feminization Surgery: the forehead. Surgical techniques and
analysis of results
Sigmoid vaginoplasty as a viable surgical option for male to female
transsexuals
15:30 – 16:00
Coffee break
16:00 – 18:00
Multidisciplinary Workshops - part II
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Transgender Health Care for Adults:
An interdisciplinary and multiprofessional
team approach from two countries
Challenges and opportunities: Diagnosing
and treating adolescents with gender
dysphoria and co-occurring psychiatric
disorders or intellectual disability
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Genderqueerness as a Challenge in
Transgender Health Care
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Challenges of Transgender Health Services in
Cooperation with Transgender Communities
in Kyrgyzstan
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Trans* and sexualities: sociological,
educational and clinical approaches
Presenters
D. Karasic
M. Deutsch
M. Garcia
C. Dhejne
S. Arver
K. Lundgren
H. Sigurjönsson
K. Dhondt
A. Balleur-van Rijn
W. Sandberg
K. Lehmann
A. Kierans
C. Richards
T.D. Steensma
T.O. Nieder
I. Karagopolova
N. Abylova
N. Pavlova
A. Kubanychbekov,
S. Kurmanov,
A. Kirey
C. Akerlund
H. Hannes
A. Giami
E. Elaut
Country
USA
(San Francisco)
SE (Stockholm)
BE (Gent)
NL (Amsterdam)
Northern Ireland
(Belfast)
UK (Nottingham)
NL (Amsterdam)
GER (Hamburg)
Kyrgyzstan
SE (Stockholm)
FRA (Paris)
BE (Gent)
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The introduction of pre-clinic, group
education sessions with young people and
families
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Introductory Workshop II: Gender Dysphoria
in Childhood and Adolescence
S. Murjan
S. Robbins-Cherry
C. Goedhart
S. Davidson
A. Miller
P. Carmichael
I. Peeters
I. Bok
A. Wüsthof
UK (Nottingham)
UK (London)
NL (Amsterdam)
GER (Hamburg)
18:00 – 19:30
Meeting & Networking Opportunities
20:00 – …….
Dinner & Party
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Saturday March 14, 2015
08:30
Opening of reception desk
9:00 – 10:45
Plenary Session IV: The Year in Review
Chair: Piet Hoebeke & Guy Bronselaer
A speaker from each stream presents a synoptic review of notable new literature in various
subspecialties of transgender care, with a primary focus on studies that had relevance for health care
decision making (15 minutes each).
Mental health: Johannes Fuß (Institute for Sex Research and Forensic Psychiatry in
Hamburg, Germany)
Children and adolescents: Thomas Steensma (VU University Medical Center, the
Netherlands)
Endocrinology: Matthias Auer (Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Germany)
Social Sciences: Joz Motmans (UZ Ghent, Belgium)
Voice and communication: Marjan Cosyns (UZ Ghent, Belgium)
Surgery: Stan Monstrey (UZ Ghent, Belgium)
Law: Alecs Recher (TGEU, Transgender Network Switzerland (TGNS)
10:45 – 11:15
Coffee break
11:15 – 12:45
Stream Sessions III
All streams will have parallel sessions.
STREAM MENTAL HEALTH
Session 3
Giovanni Castellini
Gemma Witcomb
Tim van de Grift
Alessandra Fisher
Susanne Cerwenka
Body image, body uneasiness, and sexuality
Chair: Thomas Steensma
The consequences of body uneasiness in gender dysphoric persons:
pathological behaviours and eating psychopathology
Body image and eating disorders psychopathology in trans
individuals: A matched control study of trans individuals, eating
disorders clinical cases and control group
Body image and gender dysphoria-the effects of sex reassigning
interventions
Psychobiological correlates of sexual distress in gender dysphoric
individuals without genital reassignment surgery
Long-term development of sexual orientation in individuals with
gender dysphoria during transition
Session 3b
Risk, transition, and treatment
Chair: Hertha Richter-Appelt
Clara de Castro
Perceived rejection and sexual and physical abuse in childhood and
adolescence in Spanish gender dysphoric adults attending a gender
unit
People with gender dysphoria who self-prescribe cross sex
hormones: prevalence, sources and side effect knowledge
Nick Mepham
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Marta Zatta
Maria Cruz Almaraz
Madeline Deutsch
Prevalence of HIV, HBV and HCV among transgender persons
belonging to an Italian centre qualified for total sex-reassignment
surgery
HIV, Virus B and Virus C infections and risk behaviours among
transsexual persons attending Andalusian gender team
Pre-exposure chemoprophylaxis for HIV Prevention in transgender
women
STREAM CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
Session 3
On going debates
Chair: Polly Carmichael
Bernadette Wren
Griet De Cuypere
Sam Winter
Ametss Suess
Kenneth J. Zucker
STREAM ENDOCRINOLOGY
Session 3
Chloe De Roo
Anna Starcevic
Eva Van Caenegem
Daniel Klink
Esther Botto
STREAM SOCIAL SCIENCES
Session 3
Marriane Cense
Robin Bauer
Lydia Geijtenbeek
Judit Takács
Olena Romaniuk
Making up people: understanding gender non-conformity of
childhood as both biologically grounded and socially constructed
Gender incongruence in childhood in ICD 11: yes or no?
Gender incongruence in childhood: stigmatizing difference
Gender diversity in childhood from a depathologisation and human
rights perspective
Gender Incongruence in childhood: a developmental perspective
Biomedical aspects in transgender care
Chair: Alessandra Fisher
Anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) serum levels are correlated with the
number of intermediary and primary follicles in ovaries of female-tomale transgender persons
Volumetric magnetic resonance imaging analysis of putamen in
therapy naive transsexual patients
Bone health in trans men: one year follow-up data from a prospective
case-controlled study (ENIGI)
Peak bone mass in young adulthood following gonadotropin releasing
hormone analogue (GnRHa) treatment during sex reassignment in
adolescence.
Bone metabolism in transsexual patients after sex reassignment
surgery
Trans* sexualities, embodiment and dilemmas
Chair: Zowie Davy
Sexual victimization of transgender people in the Netherlands:
prevalence, risk factors, experiences and needs
Neither absent nor extreme: Lived realities and challenges of trans
and gender queer sexuality
Is there an penalty to being a woman? Or to becoming one?
Transgender healthcare in post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe
Discovering of self: identity formation process of transsexuals in
Ukraine
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STREAM VOICE AND COMMUNICATION
Session 3
Female-to-male transsexual voice
Chair: Christella Antoni
Marjan Cosyns
Ulrika Nygren
Alexandros N. Constansis
Alexandros N. Constansis
Gillie Stoneham
STREAM SURGERY
Session 3
Chloe Wright
Julia Henderson
Franklin Kuehhas
Maurice Garcia
Vladimir Kojovic
12:45 - 13:00
Voice in female-to-male transsexual persons after long-term
androgen therapy
Voice assessment and voice changes in trans men during
testosterone treatment
The singing female-to-male (FTM) voice research and programme:
ten years on
Case study of a performance-active changing female-to-male (FTM)
voice
Sing for your life! Establishing a transgender voice group: benefits to
students and clients
FTM surgery, techniques and outcomes
Chair: Stan Monstrey
A systematic review of patient-reported outcome measures for trans
men undergoing chest contouring surgery
Dermal flap nipple preserving mastectomy for trans men: a new
technique
Patient reported outcomes for metoidioplasty
Light touch, erogenous neophallus sensation, sexual function,
durability of neophallus dimensions, and pre/post op satisfaction
following 3-stage phalloplasty genital gender confirming surgery
Reversal surgery in regretful transsexuals after sex reassignment
surgery
Closing ceremony
Summary, reflections about the first EPATH Conference,
Guy T’Sjoen, Joz Motmans, Timo O. Nieder
Announcement of the next EPATH conference
14:00 – 17:00
Meeting & networking opportunities
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