Reports from USPATH

The 2019 conference of the United States Professional Association for Transgender Health was unique in that they created a program that allowed transgender community members to receive scholarships in exchange for reporting on the conference sessions that they attended. The following are the collected reports made by the Community Rapporteurs. In addition, you can find a video of the USPATH Town Hall at their website. Dee Dee Watters, a Houston Based Trans Activist, also posted video of her response at the Town Hall.

Gaines Blasdel

• Families in Conflict: A Provider’s Role in Navigating Consent When Parents Don’t Agree
• Trans Pop Study Report

Dorcas Adedoja

• Centering Accessibility: The Gender Affirming Letter Access Project
• Contrasting Preferences for Gender Affirming Surgery Between Trans and Non-binary Individuals. Write up also includes the following sessions;
  • The Nipple Sharing Technique: A Novel Technique to Improve the Aesthetic Outcome in Female to Male Transgender Chest Masculinization Surgery
  • Penile Prosthesis Insertion After Latissimus Dorsi Phalloplasty in Transmen
  • Vaginal Remnants After One-Stage Metoidioplasty as a Variant of Gender Affirmation Surgery in Transmen
• Decolonizing Gender Health: Centering Trans Voices in Leadership
• Legal Gender Recognition, Psychological Distress, and Suicide Risk Among Trans Adults in the US. Write up also includes the following sessions;
  • Hormone-Sensitive Conditions and Mental Health Disorders Among Persons with Gender Dysphoria in Two National Claims Databases
  • Showing Up: Perspectives on Operational Approaches to Ethical and Engaged Research with Trans Communities
  • The Fight’s Not Over: HB2’s Effects on Violence Against LGBTQ+ North Carolinians
  • Risk Factors for Intimate Partner Violence Among Transgender Individuals: Intersectional Identity, Outness, and Transition Status
• Medicaid Case Study
• The U.S. Trans Survey: Looking Back at 2015 and Looking Forward to 2020
• Trans in the US: Policy, Law, and Lived Experience
• Type of Health Care Contact (Face to Face vs. Telemedicine) as a Predictor for Appointment Attendance Status at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Gender Identity Clinic. Write up also includes the following sessions;
  • ER Department Utilization by Trans/Gender Non-Binary Individuals
  • The Development and Implementation of a University-Based Specialty Program for State Prisoners with Gender Dysphoria
  • Breaking Down Barriers to Health Care
  • Patient Attitudes in Collection of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) Data at a Women’s Health Clinic with an Embedded Trans Medicine Program
• USPATH Business Meeting

Lotus Dao

• De-Transition: What We Know and Considerations for Care. Write up also includes the following sessions;
  • Vaginoplasty Revision Procedures
  • The Neuro-Gender Intersection: An Affirmative Approach to Therapy with Autistic Gender-Expansive People
  • Let’s Face It: Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Considerations with Facial Feminization Surgery (FFS)
• Prepubescent Gender Diversity: Complexities and Recommendations. Write up also includes the following sessions;
  • Feminizing Surgeries Oral
  • Complications Due to Patient Positioning During Surgery
  • History of Gender Affirming Procedures and Surgery in San Francisco
  • A Multidisciplinary Approach to Transitioning Transgender Youth to Adult Care

Nova Bradford

• Trans Community in DC and the Northeast. Write up also includes the following presentations;
  • Gender Identity and Spirituality: Religious Trauma and Ethical Practices
  • From Binary to Spectrum: Developing Multidimensional Affirmative Assessment Instruments for Youth
  • Effect of Gender Affirming Health Care in Reducing Suicide Attempts: A Survival Analysis Approach with the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey
  • We are Family: Family Support and Trans Resilience
  • Resilience mMong Trans and Gender Diverse Adults: The Protective Role of Dispositional Hope Within the Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of Suicide
  • TransLife: Development of a Smartphone App to Predict and Improve Rates of Suicidal Ideation Among Transgender Persons
  • Hair Removal and Psychological Well-Being in Transfeminine Adults: Associations with Gender Dysphoria and Gender Euphoria
  • She Came to Me For Care, Why Would I Say No? Results from a Survey of Advanced Practice Nurses Caring for Gender Minority Clients
  • Guiding Pedagogy for Mental Health Professionals
  • Vicarious Trauma in Working with TGNC Clients and Communities: Clinical Considerations