Sixth International Congress on Sex and Gender Diversity

Chair: Stephen Whittle

Rights to Sex and Gender Diversity
Kate Nash, Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths College, London, UK

Gender Identity is for Everyone, Creating a Paradigm for Change
Moonhawk River Stone, B.S., Ph.D. Candidate, Board Chair, International Foundation for Gender Education, Inc. & Co-Chair New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy, Inc, USA

Challenging Transphobia within the NHS and LGB communities in Scotland
Nick Laird, Community Development Officer, Beyond Barriers and LGBT Health INCLUSION Project, Scotland

Sexual Curiosity as Challenging Behaviour: A disenfranchised tradition in the disability sector
Kathy Crouch, Clinical Services Manager/Psychologist, Hunter Support Services, Australia

Reframing the “Center” to Expand Civil Rights
Jamison Green, MMU School of Law, Gender Education & Advocacy, Transgender, Law & Policy Institute, USA

Cyberwoman and her Surgeon: Autonomy or Control?
Melanie Latham, School of Law, Manchester Metropolitan University

Producing Identity: Self Demand Amputation, Surgery and Disability
Harminder Dosanjh Kaur, University of Hull, UK.

Gender Without Genitals: Hedwig’s Six Inches
Jordy Jones, University of California, USA.

Objects of desire: performing the transgendered body
Martin Berg, Doctoral candidate, Department of Sociology, Lund University, Sweden

Bodies of difference and transitional moments: How do Bodies Materialise?
Lewis Turner, University of Lancaster

Authoring Trans-Subjectivity: trans narratives and the need to think again the relationship between medico-psychiatry and trans-subjectivity
Jo Flannery, University Of Sheffield, UK.

Parental Alienation Syndrome: Divorced Transsexual Parent’s Access to Children
Prof. Richard Green, Head, Gender Identity Clinic Charing Cross Hospital; Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine at Charing Cross

À propos du sexe de l’âme
Michael Groneberg, Département de Philosophie, Université Fribourg Miséricorde, Switzerland

The Heart/Spirit, Not the Head/Mind: Being Transsexual is a Spiritual State and not a Psychological Condition?
Kenneth Dollarhide, Ph.D., Dean, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, USA

(Han-)Chinese Buddhist Rhetoricization of Legal Politics: Postcolonial discourse on Law Controlling Sex Work in Hong Kong
Dr. CHIU Man-Chung, Lecturer, School of Law, Charles Darwin University, Australia, Ms. Yim Yuet-Lin, Co-ordinator, ZiTeng

Emerging identities in mobile society: the case of trafficking of women in the EU.
Galina Miazhevich, Human Resource Management at the University of Manchester UK.

Homosexual Identity: A multidimensional perspective
Henrique Pereira, PhD (cand.), University of Beira Interior (UBI), Portugal
Isabel Leal, PhD Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada , (Institute of Applied Psychology), Portugal
Thomas Hofsäss, PhD, University of Hamburg, Germany

Social Acceptance: Transgender in Britain and in Thailand
Anne Beaumont-Vernon, MA, BA (Hons). PhD candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Essex, UK.

A Western transsexual woman’s transition in an Eastern culture
Gill Chrystina Dalton, Thailand

Transgender Psychosocial Issues and Aging
Tarynn M. Witten, PhD, MSW, FGSA, Senior Fellow and Executive Director, TranScience Research Institute, USA.

TransAzioni - transgender and transsexualism FtM in Italy - a psychosocial research
(includes 30 minute documentary film)
Mary Nicotra, President of Associazione DonneInViaggio

Transitioning On The Job: Pragmatics and Perspective From a MTF Trade Unionist
Lisa Kassner, Pride At Work, Los Angeles, CA.

Chair: Jamison Green

Rights discourse and the essentialisation of sex and gender: Transgender and intersexed rights in post-apartheid South Africa
Pierre de Vos, Professor of Law, University of Western Cape, and Estian Smit, PhD candidate, University of Western Cape

The Different Roads To Reform, The Two (Divergent) Roads Of Legal And Human Rights Reform Being Followed By People With transsexualism in the 21^st Century
Rachael Wallbank BA LLB AccSpec (Family Law) LSNSW, NSW Australia

Passing Muster: The “Singular” Case Of Deborah Sampson
Kenneth Salzer, Kent State Univ-Trumbull, USA.

Adam and Eve? Virginia Prince, the first transgender person
Stephen Whittle, PhD, MA, LLB, BA, Reader in Law, The School of Law, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Classificatory Systems, Treatment Options and Lived Experiences of Transsexualism: Harry Benjamin and his patients, 1950-1975
Nicholas Matte, Graduate Student, University of Victoria/University of Toronto

Bank Lending Transactions, Wife, Heterosexual, Homosexual and Law of Undue Influence: How Far Do The Principles in Barclays Bank plc v O’Brien applicable in Malaysia
Noor Inayah Yaakub, University of Manchester, UK.

The Place of Transgenderism in U.S. Same-Sex Marriage Debates
Patrick Garlinger, Northwestern University, USA.

Old Saws And New Activism: The Transsexual Movement In France
Stéphanie Nicot, Association: A.S.B. (Association du Syndrome de Benjamin)

Reflecting or Constructing the Self: FTM Identities and (Applied) Theatre Practice
Catherine McNamara, Central School of Speech and Drama, UK.

The Master Mistress of my Passion: Shakespeare’s Transeroticism
Jed Chandler, University of Wales, Newport, UK.

Conceptions of sameness and difference: Gender and identity construction in the Middle High German epic ’Wolfdietrich’
Silke Winst, University of Potsdam, Germany

Gender and Land Reform in South Africa
Susie Jacobs, Department of Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University

Challenging Archaic Stereotypes: The Modern Second Generation Indian Woman
Anjoom Mukadam, PhD Lancaster Univesity, Centre for Excellence in Leadership and Sharmina Mawani (PhD student at SOAS, University of London) UK.

Gender and Land Reform in South Africa
Susie Jacobs, Department of Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University

Sexual Diversity And Role Structure In Fulbe Nomadic Homestead: Issues In Gender Education
Adedeji Daramola, Dept. Of Environmental Sciences, Covenant University, Otta, and Olufemi Aina, Nomadic Housing Research Group, Lagos - Nigeria.

Chair: Christine Burns

The Gender Recognition Act: Stephen Whittle, Claire McNab.

The Constitution of Sex and the Sex of the (U.S.) Constitution
David B. Cruz, Professor of Law, University of Southern California Law School, USA.

The Good, the Bad and the Law - Austria’s legal response to Transsexuality
Elizabeth Greif, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria

Gender Outlawed: Transsexuality and the Invention of (Legal) Men and Women
Stacey (Tey) Meadow, J.D., Department of Sociology, New York University, USA.

Can We Play Sports? The Islamic Perspective of Women and Sports
Wardah Salman, School of Law, Manchester Metropolitan University and University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Determinants and correlates of Attitudes held by Irish Catholic and Protestant women towards the Irish Constitution and Knowledge of personal/legal rights?
Florence Craven, Centre for Gender/Women’s Studies, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Gender Diversity In Education: Sexism, Culture And Religion Issues
Daramola, Y. Damola (Mrs), College Of Human Development, Covenant University, Canaanland, Otta - Nigeria

Policing the trans-identified body - an historical perspective
Louise Chambers, Department of Media & Communications, Goldsmiths College, New Cross, London, UK.

Dis-Integrating Transgendered Women: Judicial Diminishment of Feminized Harm
Ummni Khan, University of Toronto, Canada

Spanish Transsexualism In The Bosom Of Europe
Àlec Casanova Ferrer, Valencia, Spain

“On the Pull”: Visual Representation and Trans Erotics
Eliza Steinbock, University of Leeds, UK.

Sartorial Sexualities: The Role of the Clothes in the ’Fabrication’ of Subversive Sexual Identities
Jennifer Redmond, Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

It’s a Straight, Straight World: Redressing the Absence of Gender Diversity in Contemporary Non-genre Fiction
Kristy Davidson, School of Culture, Communication and Languages at Victoria University, Australia

Chair: MH Riverstone

Keynote: Jamison Green

Dinner at Titanic exhibition, Manchester Museum of Science and Industry

Bus for up to 90 people from Lower Ormond Street at 18.45

Transphobia as the Genesis of Heterosexist Violence and Oppression
Jakob Hero, Croatia

Articulations on Gender Identity and Intersex in the Media
Michelle O’Brien, Department of Sociology, School of Business Computing and Social Science, Southlands College, University of Surrey Roehampton

Transsexuality and Citizenship in Contemporary Argentina
Mauro Cabral Ph.D schollar, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. RedTrans (Argentina); (IGLHRC)

Sex And Women In Nigeria; A Religious Overview
Dr (Mrs) C.O. Isiramen, Acting Director, General Studies Unit, Ambrose Alli University, Nigeria

A Deputy essential: A study of the impact of Culture, Gender and Power on sex/sexuality education for women in the Caribbean
Ruby Greene, Keele University, UK.

A Comparative Overview Of Female Portraits In The Paintings Of Iranian Artists Over The Last Three Decades: A Feminist Approach
Nahid Abdi, Head of Textile Design Department, University of Art, Tehran, Iran

The Gender Frontier: Changing Visions of Sex, Gender, and Politics
Mariette Pathy Allen, MFA, photographer, works include “The Gender Frontier” and “Transformations: Cross dressers and those who love them”, USA.

Transfigurations: transgender in the Mexican cinematic imaginary
Vek Lewis, Ph.D candidate, Hispanic Studies, Monash University, Australia

Who Put the “Trans” in Transgender? Who Took out the Gender?
Dr Richard Ekins, University of Ulster, Dr Dave King, University of Liverpool, UK.

Theorising gender diversity
Dr Surya Monro, Leeds University, UK.

From postmodern sexual subjectivity to conscious evolution?: notes on the potential for identity development from narrative analysis
Edward Davies, Manchester Metropolitan Universty, United Kingdom

The FTM Changing Voice
Alexandros N. Constansis, University of Reading - UK.

Chair: Christine Burns

Film and Keynote: Susan Stryker

Transpositive Health Care At Sherbourne Health Centre
Rupert Raj, M.A., Counselling, Lgbtt Counsellor, Sherbourne Health Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The Development of Information Resources by The Sandyford Trans Support Group their influence on services
Nick Laird, The Sandyford Trans Support Group, Scotland

Oral Health in Transgender Populations
Tarynn M. Witten, PhD, MSW, FGSA, Senior Fellow and Executive Director, TranScience Research Institute, USA.

Gender differences in University Student’s Attitudes Toward Mathematics in Kuwait
Khayria Saif, Kuwait

Analysis Of Feminization Of Poverty Through The Denial of Access Of Female Children to School: Case Of Rural Southeast Anatolia
Leyla Sen, History Department, Bilkent University, Turkey

Grabbing Ghosts: Transgender and Psycho-Medical Discourses on the Certainty of Gender
Katrina Roen (Ph.D.), Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Health Research Lancaster University, LA1 4YT, UK.

Using Science And Medicine To Serve Gender Dysphoric And Transsexual People
Petra de Sutter, MD, PhD, GIRES and Ghent University

The Life And Times Of The Sliced Transsexual Brain
Claire McNab, Vice-president, Press For Change, UK.

Men without Vice: Passing Men in Medieval Literature
Jed Chandler, University of Wales, Newport, UK.

Trans Masculinity; Questions of the Performativity of Masculinity in the work of Ian McEwan
Zoe Reed, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK.

The Dialogic Construction of Self: Extraordinary Bodies, Ordinary Lives
Deborah Micallef, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia

Chair: Stephen Whittle

Plenary Panel: Tracy Dean from Press For Change, Jay Stewart from FTM London, Jamison Green , Susan Stryker, et al

Identity, friendship and self-concept in Adolescence
Raul Cordeiro, MD, Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre, Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Portalegre, Portugal

Applying for Gender Recognition: A Roadmap
Tracy Dean, Press For Change

My life - Photographic Works by Sex Workers
Ziteng, Hong Kong

Out of the sun - Legal constraints and possibilities of the rights of sex workers
Ziteng, Hong Kong