Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: Trans Health and Law Conference, Saturday April 26

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Trans Health and Law Conference, Saturday April 26

Right now I am slowly going nuts helping to organize our Transgender Lives: The Intersection of Health and Law Conference, otherwise known as the Transgender Health and Law Conference. There are just so many small details to cover, like parking, menus, security... and on and on.

2014 – Transgender Lives
Intersection of Health and Law Conference
Saturday April 26, 2014
The eighth annual Transgender Lives: The Intersection of Health and Law Conference is on Saturday, April 26 at the UConn Health Center from 8:00 AM till 5:00 PM. This all day conference is geared towards Allies, Medical and Legal Professionals, Service Providers, Trans and Gender non-conforming community and all those interested in the learning about the transgender and gender non-conforming communities.

Keynote Speaker: Dru Levasseur & Tony Ferraiolo Co-Founders of the Jim Collins Foundation, a nonprofit organization that raises money to fund gender-confirming surgeries. M. Dru Levasseur is the Transgender Rights Attorney for Lambda Legal and Tony Ferraiolo, is a Certified Life Coach and Transgender Youth Advocate in New Haven

Some of this Year’s 23 Workshops cover topics such as:

Trans 101a newcomers guide transgender healthcare and issues

The Health Care Professional and the Transgender Patient

The Effects of Discrimination on Trans Health.

Networking for parents of Transgender Child

How to Successfully Transition in Your Employment

Trans Discrimination and the Fight for Housing Justice

LGBT Adoption, Surrogacy, and Sperm/Egg Donation Law 2014

Trans Health: An Evidence-based Update

Partners, Family and Friends: Grief and loss, dealing with stigma, coming-out and other common experiences.

UCONN Health Center
263 Farmington Avenue
Farmington, Connecticut 06030
Saturday, April 26, 2014
8:00AM-5:00PM

High Level Conference Timeline

08:00 - 08:30 AM : Registration and Continental Breakfast

08:30 - 09:15 AM : Welcoming Remarks and Introductions

09:15 - 12:00 AM : Morning Workshops (Sessions I & II)

12:00 - 01:00 PM : Lunch & Movie

01:00 - 03:30 PM : Afternoon Workshops (Sessions III & IV)

03:30 - 04:45 PM : Keynote

04:45 - 05:00 PM : Closing remarks and wrap up

Registration is $25 for Individuals (though no one will be turned away due to registration cost), $50 for NASW CEC

Registration online:
http://www.transadvocacy.org/transgender-lives-conference/registration

Or Mail to:
CTAC Conference Registration
P.O. Box 111
Farmington, CT 06034

Walk-ins Welcome

If you register after April 20, meals will not be included

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Quotes

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

A right delayed is a right denied.Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

Martin Luther King Jr.

No one is born hating another person… People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela

We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist
James Baldwin

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.
Newton Lee

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Albert Einstein

"The point is that there are always obstacles, whether they seem insurmountable or merely bothersome. The question is not how difficult the path, but whether in your heart, you wish to undertake the journey."
Zandru's Forge

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
You've got to be taught
To hate
And fear
You've got to be taught
From year
To year
Its got to
Be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to
Be carefully
Taught
You've got to be taught
To be
Afraid
Of people
Who's eyes are oddly made
And people who's skin is a different shade

South Pacific
Songwriters: Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rogers

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Trans Health and Law Conference, Saturday April 26

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