​Speakers Who Presented At The Conference Included
Professor Jennifer Finney-Boylan, author of She's Not There: A Life In Two Genders
 

Dr. Pierre Brassard, Gender Reassignment Surgeon (Montreal, Canada) 

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Ray Carannante, LMSW (Gender Identity Project & Private Practice, New York)

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Dr. Stuart Chipkin, Endocrinologist and Research Professor, UMass Dept. of Kinesiology(Amherst, MA)
 

Dr. Chipkin was one of four writers of the article "Endocrinologic Treatment of Gender Identity Disorders" (Endocrine Practice, Volume 9, Number 1 / January / February 2003)

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Diane Ellaborn, LICSW, (Private Psychotherapy Practice, Framingham, MA) writer of "Seeking Manhood: An Introductory Guide to Assessment of the Female-to-Male Adolescent"in The Phallus Palace, Kotula (2002)
 

Arlene Istar Lev LCSW, CASAC(Private Family Therapy Practice, Albany, NY) writer of Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working With Gender-Variant People and Their Families

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Lisette Lahana, LICSW (Private Psychotherapy Practice, CA) Conference Sponsor and Founder

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Ben Singer was a PhD Candidate in English at Rutgers University working on an ethnographic dissertation: “On the Medical Margins: Transgender Risk Reduction in Public Health.” Since 1993, he has worked as a state and national consultant and trainer in the public health sector. Mr. Singer most recently taught Transgender Queries in Medicine, Law, Politics and Culture at Barnard College in New York City.

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Dr. Norman Spack,Senior Endocrinologist, Children's Hospital & Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA)
Dr. Spack was a contributor to the international team Developing Guidelines for Endocrinological Intervention in the Gender Identity Development Treatment of Adolescents

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Dr. Jeffrey Spiegel, Facial Feminization Surgeon (Boston, MA)
 

Dr. Spiegel has also just completed writing a chapter in the medical textbook Essentials of Surgery (2006) edited by James Becker M.D. summarizing the fundamental concepts of facial plastic and reconstructive surgery.

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Trans Speakers' Panel, sponsored by The Stonewall Center of the Univeristy of Massachusetts, Amherst The Stonewall Center is a Bisexual, Lesbian, Gay, Transgender Educational Resource Center.