TRANSforming Gender Conference

CU Boulder’s Gender and Sexuality Center is pleased to announce the tenth annual TRANSforming Gender Conference, which will be held on the CU Boulder campus March 10-12, 2016.

The Conference is free and open to the public, and will be held at the CU-Boulder Center for Community.  Organizers and co-sponsors are committed to addressing equality, support, visibility, and scholarship for transgender, gender non-conforming, and intersex people.

This year keynote speakers include Jennicet Gutiérrez, an advocate for undocumented transgender people; Cece McDonald, a national leader in the civil rights transgender movement; Tiq Milan, national spokesperson for the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation; and Kim Milan, co-founder of The People Project, a movement to empower queer and trans people of color and allies. 

In addition to our keynote speakers, the conference will feature presentations that highlight the experiences of transgender people of color, including a panel on queer and trans* people of color, legal resources for immigration and asylum, and sessions for educators and professors on inclusive teaching practices.  Session presenters will also address topics such as transfeminism, being an ally to transgender people, and ways providers can be more trans- and intersex-inclusive.

At the conference, we will celebrate recent policy victories, such as the University of Colorado’s recent addition of gender confirmation surgery to the University’s health care insurance benefits.  And we will honor the lives of the many transgender people we have lost through intimate partner and other forms of violence and discrimination.

Co-sponsors of the tenth Annual Transforming Gender Conference include The Open Door Fund, Out Boulder, First United Methodist Church, CU Faculty Council’s LGBTI Committee, and the following departments at CU-Boulder: CU-Student Government, Office of Victim Assistance, Wardenburg Health Center, Art and Art History, Writing and Rhetoric, ATLAS, Theatre and Dance, Philosophy, School of Education, Center for Values and Social Policy, Residence Hall Association, Peace and Conflict Studies, Women’s Resource Center, Cultural Unity and Engagement, Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Women, Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Gender and Sexuality, Anthropology, Sociology, Communication, Communication Graduate Student Association, Women and Gender Studies, and the LGBTQ Studies Certificate program.

To register for the conference and view the full schedule, please visit http://www.colorado.edu/gsc/transforming-gender-conference-0