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INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON GENDER, CROSS DRESSING

AND SEX

ISSUES

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, NORTHRIDGE

AIRTEL PLAZA HOEL, VAN NUYS, CA

FEBRUARY 24 – 26, 1995

©1995 Center for Sex Research

 

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24

 

CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS

 

Tape WC-1  WORKSHOP A  The Use of Dance/Movement in

Adjustment of Gender Conflicted to a Preferred Role.  Annette

Cardonna-Romeo, Jersey City State College

and the American Musical Dramatic Academy, New York City, and

Jayne Thomas,Ph.D., Santa Monica City College, and a psychologist in

private practice.

 

Tape WC-3  WORKSHOP B   Past, Present, and Future Models of

Treatment  Dallas Denny, a founding member of AEGIS, in Decatur,

GA.

 

Tapes WC-5&6*  WORKSHOP C   Clinical Approaches to Working

with Gender Dysphoria Gretchen Fincke, M.S.W. Director of the

Pathways Counseling Center in Wauwatosa, WI., and Roger Northway

an affiliate of Pathways Counseling Center.

 

Tapes WC-9&10*  WORKSHOP E  A Healthy Transgender Role

Model Nancy Nangeroni, Cambridge, MA., conducts workshops

directed to the transgender community

 

Tape WC-11  OPENING PLENARY SESSION  Where We Have

Been, Where We Are, and Where We Might Be Going, or The Purpose

of this Conference

(Also Available on Videotape)

James Elias Ph.D., Director of the Center of Sex Research, and officials

of  California State University, Northridge . Keynote address by Vern L.

Bullough, Ph.D., a founding member of the Center

 

CONCURRENT REPORTS AND SYMPOSIA

 

Tape WC-12   (One sided tape)   Session I.  Reports on Current

Research Moderator:  Sharen Shapiro, Ph.D.  “Description of 357 Male

Cross Dressers,” Bonnie Bullough, Ph.D., and Vern L. Bullough, Ph.D.

“The Measurement of Gender Dysphoria,”  Richard Docter, Ph.D.

“Comparison of Transvestite and Non Transvestite Heterosexual

Males,”  Mary Hogan-Finlay,Ph.D. and Nicholas P. Spanos, Ph.D.

 

Tape WC-13  Session II. “Clinical Management and Counseling”

Moderator: Richard Smith, Ph.D.

“The Female Experience of the Femme: A Transgender

Challenge.”   Sandra Cole, Ph.D.

“A Process Model of Supportive Therapy for

Families of Gender Dysphoric Individuals.”  Shirley Emerson, Ph.D. and

Carole Rosenfeld, M.S. in private practice.

“A Study of Sexual Orientation Confusions Among Spouses of

Transvestites and Transsexuals Following Disclosure

of Spouse’s Gender Dysphoria.”   Sallie Hunt, MFCC, and Terri Main,

MFCC intern.

 

Tape WC-14  Session III. “Therapy and Treatment”   Moderator:  Jayne

Thomas, Ph.D.

“Surgeons, Therapists, Researchers, and Transsexuals: Symbiosis or

Exploitation.” James  Green

“A Report on the Rorschachs of Fifteen Applicants for Sex

Reassignment Surgery.”   Eugene E. Levitt, Ph.D.

“Multiple Personality Order: An Alternate Paradigm for Understanding

Cross Gender Experience,” William A. Henkin, Ph.D.

 

Tape WC-15  Session IV. “Studies in the Humanities”  Moderator:

Winnie Brant,

Ph.D. “Saving Their Ownselves: Female to Male Cross Dressing as

Means of Survival for Married Women in Two English Plays.”  Keith

Dorwick, Ph.D.

“A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Cross Dressing in the Novel, The

Well of Loneliness.” Ada Frumerman, Ph.D.

“Transgender Identity, Art, and Subversion.” Chelsea Elizabeth

Goodwin

 

Tape WC-16  Session V.  Current Issues  Moderator:  Margaret

Vernallis, Ph.D.

“Insurance and the Reimbursement of Transgender Health Care.”  Lisa

Middleton

“Exploring the Spectrum of Gender Therapy,”  Diane B. Watson, M.D.

and Jamie Powers

“FTM Experience After the First Year”  0. Robinow, M.D. and Irena

Straszak

 

CONCURRENT REPORTS AND SYMPOSIA

 

Tape WC-17  Session I.  Reports of Current Research   Moderator:

Sheila Kirk, M.D.

“How Female-to Male Transsexuals Reject Lesbian Identities”  Holly

Devor, Ph.D.

“Culturally Universal Aspects of Male Homosexual Transvestites and

Transsexuals.” Frederick Whitam, Ph.D.

“The Developmental Phases of Male to Female

Transsexuals.”  Jan Eder, Psy.D.

 

Tape WC-18  Session II. “Clinical Management and Counseling”

Moderator: Veronica Elias, Ph.D.

“Medical Management of Hermaphroditic Children: Enforcing the

Gender Dichotomy.”  Bo Laurent

“Relations Between MTF Transsexuals and Their

Children.”  Rusty Mae Moore, Ph.D.

“Origins of Gender Identity Disorder: A Child-Clinical Perspective.”

Ken Zucker, Ph.D.

 

Tape WC-19  Session Ill.  Therapy Problems?   Moderator:  James

Elias, Ph.D.

“An Abdication of Power: A Transgendered Perspective.”  Wendy

Susan Parker

“Gender Identity Disorder: Pathology or Adjustment.”  Jayne Thomas,

Ph.D. and Susanna Gillick

“Assessment of Gender Dysphoria in Penal Settings.”  Carl Viesti, Jr.,

Ph.D.

 

Tape WC-20  Session IV.  Studies in the Humanities   Moderator:

Keith Dorwick

“Narratives of Choice in Transgender Fiction and Autobiography.”

Karen Nakamura

“Cross Dressing, Theatricality and the New Woman: The Unquiet

Woman in Hardy’s, The Return of the Native”  Lisa Nakamura

“Just Man Enough to Be a Boy: Theatrical

Cross Dressing in Mid Victorian England.”  Ellen Rosenman, Ph.D.

 

Tape WC-21  Session V. “Shamans and Gendered Rationality”

Moderator:   Michael Saffle, Ph.D.

“Gynemimetic Shamans: Evolutionary Origins of Male Sex Inversion

and Associated Talent.” William Dragoin

“Beyond Appearances: Cross Dressing and Gendered Rationality.”

1. A. Gilbert, Ph.D.

“Making the Visible, Invisible: Female Gender Diversity Cross

Culturally.” Jason Cromwell, Ph.D.

 

DINNER BREAK

 

Tape WC-22  “Miss Vera’s Finishing School for Boys Who Want to Be

Girls.” Veronica Vera

(Also Available on Videotape)

 

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1995

 

Tape WC-23  PLENARY SESSION  Bonnie Bullough, Ph.D. –

Moderator

(Also Available on Videotape)

“Recent Breakthroughs in the Biology of Gender Behavior.” – Roger

Gorski, Ph.D.

 

CONCURRENT REPORTS AND SYMPOSIA

 

Tape WC-24  Session I. Current Research Reports   Moderator:  Ted

McIlvenna, Ph.D.

“Attitudes Toward Cross Dressing and Transsexualism and

Homosexuality: But I Wouldn’t Want to Marry One.”   Kathryn M.

Black, Ph.D.

“Men With Sexual Interest in Transvestites, Transsexuals, and She

Males.”   Ray Blanchard,Ph.D. and Peter I. Collins

“Feminist and Lesbian Opinions About Transsexuals.”  Holly Devor,

Ph.D. and Monica Kendel

 

Tape WC-25  Session II. Clinical Management and Counseling

Moderator:  Marilyn Fithian

“Transgender Coming Out: Implication for the Clinical Management of

Gender Dysphoria.” Walter Bockting, Ph.D.

“Cross Dressing: United Kingdom and United States Compared.”

Richard Green, M.D., J.D.

“SRS Tomorrow: The Physical Spectrum.”  Nancy R. Nangeroni

 

Tape WC-26  Session III. Confronting Stereotypes About Transgender

Issues  Moderator: JoAnn Roberts Participants: Dallas Denny,

Kymberleigh Richards, Jayne Thomas, and Sandra Cole.

 

Tape WC-27  Session IV. Studies in the Humanities  Moderator:  L. D.

McPherson

“The Mirror of Hermaphroditus: Anamorphic Sexuality in the English

Renaissance.”  James Stone

“The Boys Don’t Count: Or Why Won’t Shakespeare Put His Men in

Dresses.”   Lynn M. Thompson, Ph.D.

“Winter Wear Drag: Stage Representations of Drag in Contemporary

Canadian Theater.”  R. M. Vaughan, Ph.D.

 

Tape WC-28  Session V. Problems and Changes  Moderator:  Karen

Claydon

“Multisexuality: The Wave of the Future.”   Martine Rothblatt

“The Role Sexuality Plays in the Life of Transsexuals.”   Kim Stuart

“Crossdressng, Divorce, and Child Custody in Connecticut: A Personal

Perspective.” Elaine Tee

 

Tape WC-29  HONORS  AWARD  LUNCHEON   Chairs: James Elias

and Vern Bullough Honorees:  Stanley Biber, M.D. and Virginia Prince,

Ph.D. Posthumous Honorees:  Roger E. Peo and  Lou Sullivan

 

 

CONCURRENT REPORTS AND SYMPOSIA

 

Tape WC-30  Session 1. Anthropological Perspectives    Moderator:

William Hartman, Ph.D.

“Transforming Transvestism and Transsexualism: Polarity, Politics, and

Culture.” Anne Bolin, Ph.D.

“The Balkan Sworn Virgins: A European Transgendered Female Role.”

Mildred Dickemann,  Ph.D.

“Two Spirit People.”  Walter Williams, Ph.D.

 

Tape WC-31  Session II. Toward Understanding    Moderator:  Richard

Docter, Ph.D.

“Self Testing: A Process for Everyone.”  Milton Diamond, Ph.D.

“Postmodernization of Sex and Gender.”  William Simon, Ph.D.

“Gender Attitude Reassessment: An Overview of the Conceptual and

Role Behaviors of Males and Females in the United States.”  Ari Kane,

Marilyn Volker, Ph.D., and David Prok

 

 

Moderator: Richard O’Connell, Ph.D.

“The Hotline Call, or How to Do a Year’s Psychotherapy in Thirty

Minutes or Less.”  Yvonne Cook-Riley

“Techniques Effective in Treating Issues of the Gender Conflicted

Population.”   Toby Green

“The Inner Dimensions of Gender Transformation.”   Lee Etscovitz

 

Tape WC-33  Session IV. Studies in the Humanities

Moderator:   Kathryn  Helms

“The Gender Heresy of Akhenaton.”   Winnie Brant, Ph.D.

“A Historical Perspective of Christine Jorgensen and The Development

of a Constant.”   Linda Heidenrich

“Wagner’s Letters to a Seamstress ‘Cross Dressing’, Gender

Dysphoria,and the Contemporary Press.” Michael Saffle

 

Tape WC-34  Session V.  Drag and the Gender Community

Moderator:  Richard Smith, Ph.D.

“Is Drag Misognynistic?”  L.  D.  McPherson

“The Transvestite, the Woman, and the Client:  A Socio anthropological

Approach to Transvestite Prostitution.”  Neila Cristina Mendes-Lopez,

Ph.D.

“Queens and Jacks: Transvestites and Reflections of Women” Nueza

Maria de Oliveira

 

 

CONCURRENT REPORTS AND SYMPOSIA

 

Tape WC-35  Session  I.  Standards of Care    Moderator:  Jude Patton

“Results of a Survey of Consumer Attitudes about HBIGDA Standards

of Care.” Dallas Denny and Jan Roberts

“Criteria for SRS — Do They Work?”  Janis Walworth

“Revision of Standards of Care in Progress”  Friedemann  Pfäfflin,

M.D.

 

 

 

Tape WC-36  Session II. Legal Issues    Moderator:  Wayne Plasek,

Ph.D.

“Law and Transsexualism” Louis  Swartz,   Ph.D.

“Legislating for Transsexual Rights: An International Overview and

Prescriptive

Form.” Stephen Whittle.

“A Legal Path of Androgyny”  Lynn Edward Harris

 

 

Tape WC-37  Session III. “Different Treatment Modalities.”

Moderator:  Thomas Y. Glover, Ph.D.

“The Use of Neuro-Linguistic Processing (NLPP) Methodologies and

Techniques in Working with the Gender Community.” Roger Millen

“Gender Identity as a Constellation of Archetypes.” Maharani “Pari”

Parivarto

“Dissociation and Gender Dysphoria.” David Seil

 

Tape WC-38  Session   IV.   “Photographic   Portrayals”   Moderator:

Ari   Kane

“The Changing Face of the Transgender Community.”  Mariette Pathy

Allen

“The Gender Mirror: A Video Ethnography.” Chris Strayer

“Transpositions: An  Introduction to the Transsexual  Photography of

Loren Cameron.” Susan Stryker, Ph.D., Loren Cameron, and Barbara

de Genevieve

 

Tape WC-39  Session V “Religion and the Gender Community.”

Moderator:  Carol Beecroft

“Religion and Cross Gender Behavior.”  Kathryn Helms, B.D.

“The Spirituality of a Transsexual Based on Carl Jung’s Principles.”

Phyllis Houseman

“Transsexuality and Religion: A Personal Journey.” Karen Kroll

 

Tape WC-40  Short  after  dinner  talk    Sheila  Kirk,  M.D.

 

 

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26

 

 

Tape WC-41  PLENARY SESSIONS   (Also Available on Videotape)

Session A.    James Elias, Ph.D. – Moderator

“Sex Reassignment Surgery, An Overview”  Stanley Biber, M.D.

Session B.   Vern L. Bullough, Ph.D. – Moderator

“Some New Surgical Developments” Xia Zhao Ji, M.D.

 

 

WORKSHOPS AND REPORTS

 

Tapes WC-42 &43*  Session I The Cross Gender Organizations Present

Themselves

Moderator: Jude Patton

“The Renaissance Education Association,” JoAnn Roberts

“Aegis and What It Does.”  Dallas Denny

“What is IFGE? What Are the Issues.” Merissa Sherril Lynn’s

replacement

“Tri Ess Today.”  Carol Beecroft

“Androgyny”  Shirley Bushnell

“Outreach Institute”  Ari Kane

“Metropolitan Gender Program”  Chelsea Goodwin and Rusty Moore

 

Tape WC-44  Session II. Personal Lifestyles: What Now? A Discussion

Moderator:

Wayne Plasek, Ph.D.

“Seventy Years in the Trenches of the Gender Wars.”  Virginia Prince

“What is a Transgenderist?”  Kymberleigh Richards

“Fighting the Battles.”  Michelle Kämmerer

“Androgyny”  Lynn Edward Harris

 

 

*Note:  Sessions with multiple tapes are considered one tape for

ordering purposes.