Exploring gender. Together. Los Angeles Seattle Seattle June 28-29, 2017 August 23-24, 2017 August 24-27, 2017 Professional Professional Family & Community Presented By: genderodyssey.org genderdiversity.org supporting all gender identities TOBY R MELTZER MD ELLIE ZARA LEY MD A DIPLOMATE OF THE AMERICAN A DIPLOMATE OF THE AMERICAN BOARD OF PLASTIC SURGERY BOARD OF PLASTIC SURGERY WELCOME ELLIE ZARA LEY MD TO OUR PRACTICE Dr. Ley joined our practice and began direct training with Dr. Meltzer in November 2015. She is committed to providing the same quality of surgical care and is now accepting new patients. For more on Dr. Ley’s surgical training please visit our website. 7025 N. Scottsdale Rd. Suite 302 Scottsdale, AZ 85253 (480) 657-7006 or 1-866-876-6329 Fax: (480) 657-7020 WWW.TMELTZER.COM TABLE OF CONTENTS 4 | Welcome Letter 5 | Sponsors 6 | Gender Diversity Introduction 8 | Keynote Speakers 12 | Media and Privacy Guidelines TOBY R MELTZER MD ELLIE ZARA LEY MD 13 | Where To Eat A DIPLOMATE OF THE AMERICAN A DIPLOMATE OF THE AMERICAN 16 | Accessibility BOARD OF PLASTIC SURGERY BOARD OF PLASTIC SURGERY 17 | Security 18 | Wednesday Schedule 19 | Wednesday Workshops 28 | Wednesday Keynotes 29 | Seattle GO Conference 31 | Thursday Schedule 32 | Thursday Workshops 41 | Thursday Keynotes 42 | Planning Committee 45 | Acknowledgements WELCOME ELLIE ZARA LEY MD TO OUR PRACTICE Dr. Ley joined our practice and began direct training with Dr. Meltzer in November 2015. She is committed to providing the same quality of surgical care and is now accepting new patients. For more on Dr. Ley’s surgical training please visit our website. 7025 N. Scottsdale Rd. Suite 302 Scottsdale, AZ 85253 (480) 657-7006 or 1-866-876-6329 Fax: (480) 657-7020 WWW.TMELTZER.COM 44 Thank You, 2017 GO Pro Los Angeles Sponsors! Presenting Sponsor Logical Alternative Partner Toby Meltzer, MD 5 Advocate Los Angeles Gender Center Supporter Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Contributor Trans Family Support Services GENDER DIVERSITY: AN INTRODUCTION “I hadn’t even thought about protecting trans kids from the rest of the kids at school. I was so preoccupied with my own kid’s right to privacy, I just didn’t get it,” a woman at a special PTA meeting is speaking at the microphone. She is directing her gratitude to Aidan Key, founder and executive director of Gender Diversity, at the end of a special PTA meeting about gender inclusion. Her sentiments are common. For more than a decade, Washington educators have had Key on speed dial to help them navigate transgender student rights. In addition to educating parents, he has helped school districts develop policy, provided faculty training, and even led classes about gender inclusivity with elementary school students. Working with schools is only one prong of Gender Diversity’s year-round mission. It also runs parent support groups for families with gender-diverse kids and produces the annual Gender Odyssey conferences. Key leads a small team of employees in these endeavors, who in turn partner with dozens of dedicated volunteers to bring support to trans people, their families, and allies. In 2008 Gender Diversity started its first support group for parents whose kids are trans 6 or gender diverse. Two families attended. The following month, four families attended. Today, Gender Diversity has family support group meetings of up to 20 families at a time, every Sunday. Each week, parents meet with the group aligned with the age of their trans child—young kids, tween, and teen to adult, and on the fourth Sunday, parents are invited to attend Extra Credit, a special topics session. As Key will tell you, magic happens in these weekly support groups. While a trained volunteer hangs out with the kids, parents and caregivers gather in a different room to talk about navigating their child’s transition: coming to terms with their own feelings; legal and school issues; doctors, clothes, and puberty; disclosing to extended family; losing friends and making new ones. “These parents step into their own fears to support their child,” Key glows. “It’s not unusual that everyone is transformed.” To find out more about the work of Gender Diversity, or to donate, visit www. genderdiversity.org. Aidan Key travels nationwide to provide guidance and training to schools implementing policies on transgender student rights. To inquire, email info@ genderdiversity.org. Nikki Neuen Gender Diversity Associate Director Acomprehensivetrainingdesignedforprofessionalsinterestedinprovidingsensitiveand competentmentalhealthandmedicalcareforgendernon-conformingchildren,transgender youthandyoungadults. CMEs,CEsandCEUsoffered. Who’sthistrainingfor? • MedicalProviders • MentalHealthProviders TrainingProvidedby: • SchoolCounselors • Teachers/Educators • SocialWorkers • DCFS/Probation AydinOlson-Kennedy,MSW SusanP. Landon,LMFT • CommunityOrganizations ExecutiveDirector, Child& AdolescentProgramDirector, • Parents/FamilyMembers LosAngelesGenderCenter LosAngelesGenderCenter JohannaOlson-Kennedy,MD FormoreinformationcontactAydinat MedicalDirector 7 [email protected] CenterforTransyouthHealth& Development Children’sHospitalLosAngeles KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - WEDNESDAY We are excited to have such a great line-up of powerful speakers for our inaugural Gender Odyssey Los Angeles Professional Conference! WEDNESDAY | 4:45PM | CITY BALLROOM Michelle Honda-Phillips is a member of the Human Rights Campaign Parents for Transgender Equality Council and the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance Family Acceptance speaker bureau. Michelle advocates for transgender and gender-nonconforming youth speaking out about her family’s journey of unconditional love in hopes other families will embrace their children for their authentic selves. Their story has been featured on NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, the Human Rights Campaign, and in Elle France magazine. 8 Michael M. Honda, who served as US Representative for California’s 17th congressional district (Silicon Valley) from 2013 until 2017, was born to parents who were natural- born US citizens. They were native Californians sent to a concentration camp American-style in Amache, Colorado, in 1942 under President FDR when he issued Executive Order 9066. EO 9066 made Mike at the age of eight months an enemy alien #328862C. Cloaking him with an unconscious, internalized sense of “lessness”ness, this internalized oppression became a struggling effort to re- teach himself to health as a youthful adult—an effort that continues today while shaping his beliefs and principles in the guarantees of our nation’s Constitution. As a returned Peace Corps Volunteer in El Salvador, and a civil servant in public schools, appointed office, and elected offices, Mike doggedly adheres to the Constitution to which he swore oaths. Cyrus the Great, Mohammed (peace be unto his name), Jesus, Gandhi, MLK Jr, and Cesar Chavez all have taught and lived believing in Universal Human Rights, and Mike tries to follow those teachings in all that he does. His personal and professional lives reflect a struggle for a more perfect union—to make the rule of law Constitutional. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - THURSDAY STATE OF THE MOVEMENT PANEL THURSDAY | 4:45PM | CITY BALLROOM Kris Hayashi, Transgender Law Center riKu Matsuda, Gender Justice Los Angeles Chandi Moore, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Bamby Salcedo, TransLatin@ Coalition Nick Adams, GLAAD Transgender Media Michelle Enfield, Transgender Service Provider Network riKu Matsuda works in the Human Relations Branch of the LA County Workforce Development, Aging and Community Services Department as a senior intergroup relations specialist. He is an 9 analyst for the annual hate crime report and leads the department’s work to end violence against transgender and non-binary communities. riKu also coaches for the Groundswell Foundation's Grassroots Organizing Institute and hosts a public affairs program called Flip the Script on Pacifica's KPFK 90.7FM Los Angeles. Bamby Salcedo, a transgender Latina Woman, is president and CEO of the TransLatin@ Coalition, an organization addressing the issues of transgender Latin@s in the US, and she is currently developing the Center for Violence Prevention & Transgender Wellness in LA. Bamby’s remarkable and wide-ranging activist work has brought voice and visibility to not only the trans community, but also to the multiple overlapping communities and issues that her life has touched including migration, HIV, youth, LGBT, incarceration and Latin@ communities, and she has been invited to speak publicly about many of these issues. Her powerful, sobering and inspiring speeches and her warm, down-to-earth presence have provided emotional grounding and perspective for diverse gatherings. She speaks from the heart, having transcended many of her own issues, as seen in the documentary made about her life called TransVisible: Bamby Salcedo’s Story. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - THURSDAY Kris Hayashi has over 20 years of movement building, leadership, and organizing experience. As a public transgender person of color, Kris has been a leader in movements for justice and rights for transgender and gender-nonconforming communities for over 13 years. Having served as executive director at the organizations Youth United for Community Action in California and the Audre Lorde Project (ALP) in New York City in the past, Kris now serves as executive director at Transgender Law Center, one of the largest organizations in the country advancing the rights of transgender and gender-nonconforming people. During his tenure at ALP, ALP launched one of the first organizing and advocacy projects in the country led by trans and gender- nonconforming people of color, the annual NYC Trans Day of Action now in its 11th year, and won a monumental campaign 10 getting NYC’s welfare agency to adopt community-developed policies on serving trans and gender-nonconforming people. Los Angeles native Chandi Moore is a nationally recognized HIV and Trans activist. She currently works for the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Center for Trans Youth and Development. In her current role, she leads a nationally recognized and evidence-based, trans youth-specific project called BLUSH (Brave Leaders Unified to Strengthen Our Health). Chandi was recently named one of Advocate Magazine’s 25 Trans pioneers who took us past the tipping point in 2015. Also in 2015 she joined forces with the Centers for Disease Control for their Act Against AIDS initiative campaign “Doing It,” which encourages the community to get tested for HIV and know their status. A 2015 Positive Images Statement of Courage award recipient, Chandi was featured alongside American television personality and Olympic champion Caitlyn Jenner on the GLAAD media award-winning series I Am Cait. Chandi loves to empower others to reach the light that is at the end of the tunnel.