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Workshops are set for 4th Transgender & Allies Summit

by Shane Morgan

Columbus-The workshops for the fourth annual TransOhio Transgender and Allies Summit are now online.

This year's keynote presenter is Ignacio Rivera, aka Papi Coxxx. Rivera is a gender queer Trans-Former born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Rivera, who prefers the gender-neutral pronoun "they," is a performance artist, currently performing skits, spoken word, one-person shows and story-telling internationally. Rivera is a lecturer, activist, new filmmaker and selfproclaimed sex educator.

Rivera is the founder of Poly Patao Productions. P3 is dedicated to producing sexpositive workshops, performance pieces, films, play parties, panel discussions, social-political groups and educational opportunities that are specially geared toward queer women, transgender, multi-gender, gender-queer, gender non-conforming and gender variant people of color.

Rivera is also one of the founding board members of Queers for Economic Justice, a progressive non-profit organization committed to promoting economic justice in a

context of sexual and gender liberation.

The summit will be held from August 5 to 7 in Ohio State University's Ohio Union Multicultural Center, 1739 N. High Street at 12th Ave., in Columbus.

Dr. Sherman Leis of the Philadelphia Center for Transgender Surgery will present three workshops:

• MTF Top and Bottom Surgery: How It's Done at the Philadelphia Center for Transgender Surgery

• FFS: Options and Results

• FTM Top and Bottom Surgery Dr. Daniel Medalie of Cleveland Plastic Surgery will present Surgical Options for Transgender Patients.

Other workshops at the summit will include:

· Doing it Alone: Transitioning Without Hormones, presented by Jess Easton.

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the results that you want without using hormones? "Doing It Alone" is a facilitated discussion about the alternatives to using hormones during transition. We will discuss why some individuals choose not to use hormones, alternatives methods to hormones to consider, understand if and when hormones are for you, and personal stories of transitioning without hormones. We hope to have a conversation with like-minded individuals about how hormones dictate our transitions and how we can work together to find some freedom from them.

• Being a Good Ally, presented by Nelli LaValle.

Within the trans community, being a good ally is one of the most important assets. An ally can be anyone from within the community or affiliated with it. With the pressures, personal, political and institutional, that exist in society often make it difficult. This will be an opportunity to discuss why being a ally is important and also ways in which we can be a stronger community.

• GenderQueer/Gender Non-Conforming Identities Discussion, presented by JAC Stringer.

Genderqueer and gender non-conforming identities make up a growing percentage of the transgender community. This workshop, lead by a panel of representatives from the spectrum of genderqueer identities, will host a discussion about the complexities of genderqueer and gender non-

conforming identities, the language we use, the experiences we have, and the bonds we build within the transgender community and beyond. All are welcome.

• Navigating Transphobia in the Health Care Industry, presented by Ariel Baumwell. You enter a health care provider's office and the first word out of his, her, or hir's mouth is the wrong pronoun or your old name or both. The provider is continually misgendering you. Maybe you tense up and are unsure of how to get the health care provider to stop misgendering you. Maybe this makes you angry and you are trying really hard not to yell at them. Either way, you want them to stop misgendering you. Now what? "Navigating Transphobia in the Health Care Industry" is workshop which will look at some of the common incidences of transphobia within the health care setting particularly at the provider level and the many strategies in which people can respond. This workshop is designed to give people options and help people feel empowered when encountering transphobia. The workshop will examine the institutional causes of transphobia and trans erasure in health care.

For a full list of workshops and presenter biographies, info about weekend events, registration, volunteering, scholarships and more, visit http://transohio.wordpress.com.

Shane Morgan is the founder and president of Trans Ohio.

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