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Saturday May 7, 2005

 Designed for anyone who wishes to learn more about the nature and challenges of gender-variant
 childhood and adolescence.

 Hosted at:
Waukesha County Technical College
Richard T Anderson Education Center, Pewaukee Campus
800 Main Street
Pewaukee, Wisconsin

 credits       agenda       descriptions       registration       directions

 

Dear Colleague:

 In celebrating diversity, the broad spectrum of gender identity and expression can be daunting, so deeply ingrained are ideas about how girls and boys, women and men, are supposed to be. This groundbreaking conference is about meeting the needs of gender-variant children and youth: boys who are very gentle (“sissies”) and girls who prefer rough-and-tumble activities (“tomboys”). Environments that support and nurture gender-variant children and youth are good for everyone.

 Please share this brochure with other individuals that you feel would benefit from attending.  We would be very happy to have them join us too.

I look forward to seeing you on May 7th. 

 J Timothy Greene

WACTE Professional Development Chair

 

Workshop Credits

 

WTCS Staff: Each individual College Certification Office will grant certification renewal for WTCS employees.

 

DPI: The Department of Public Instruction no longer provides clock hours.  The program has been discontinued.

 

Social Work: 5 hours or 0.5 CEUs

 

Early Childhood: 5 hours (includes bar code from The Registry)

 

12:30 p.m. – 1:20 p.m.
Concurrent break-out sessions, round 1:

“Making Schools Safe and Nurturing for Gender-Variant Children”
      - Karen Eckhardt, Edgardo Menvielle and Catherine Tuerk

“No More Teachers’ Dirty Looks: Rigid Gender Roles and Youth at School”
      - Elna Hickson and Brian Juchems

“Multicultural Perspective on Gender-Nonconformity”
      - Will Fellows and Kathleen Kaufelt

“Once Upon a (Recent) Time: Coming Out Stories of LGBT Youth”
      - Gary Hollander and Mark O’Neil

1:20 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Break 

 1:30 p.m. – 2:20 p.m.   
“Concurrent break-out sessions, round 2:  Same four sessions as listed in round 1.

 2:20 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Break 

2:30 p.m. – 3:20 p.m.
Panel Discussion
- Bronze Quinton, Moderator 

3:20 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Wrap up • Evaluations

 

 

 

Understanding Gender Variance in Childhood— A Parent’s Perspective

This humorous and heartfelt story of a mother’s struggle to understand her young child’s gender variance will remind you that there is nothing “typical” about being a parent. Hear how gender stereotypes almost prevented one family from recognizing the true spirit of their child. — Karen Eckhardt

 Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Issues in Childhood and Adolescence

Questions to be addressed:
• How does the understanding of gender develop in childhood?
• What is the difference between sexual identity and gender identity?
• What do gender-variant children look like? How do they present clinically?
• What do we know about developmental pathways, role of stigma, adolescent risks, and adult outcomes of gender-variant children?
• What does the research say about gender variance?
• How do we intervene with the child, the parents, siblings, and other family members?
• What do parents need to know? What do they need to do?
• What resources are available and how do we use them?
• How do we intervene with teachers, mental health and health professionals?
— Edgardo Menvielle, M.D., M.S.H.S., and Catherine Tuerk, M.A., R.N., C.S., Outreach Program for Children with Gender-Variant Behaviors and Their Families, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, D.C. 

Concurrent break-out sessions

Making Schools Safe and Nurturing for Gender-Variant Children
How do schools need to change in order to meet the needs of gender-variant children? Karen Eckhardt’s facilitation of this session will be informed by her several years of “navigating the system,” fighting to educate the local community and her child’s school towards acceptance of her transgendered child. Co-facilitators Edgardo Menvielle and Catherine Tuerk will draw on their years of work with gender-variant children and their parents, and school personnel who figure prominently in these children’s lives. 

No More Teachers’ Dirty Looks: Rigid Gender Roles and Youth at School
How do youth who express their gender in unexpected ways navigate school-based challenges such as bullying, administrative resistance, dances, or just using the bathroom? What can educators, parents, and community members do to ensure a safe learning environment for all, regardless of gender identity/expression? Using scenarios, sample district policies and procedures, and personal experiences, a crew of youth and youth advocates will consider ways to support students who explode the gender box. — Elna Hickson and Brian Juchems, facilitators.

Multicultural Perspective on Gender-Nonconformity
When it comes to freedom of gender identity and expression, contemporary American culture appears rather uniformly rigid about how females and males are supposed to be. But if you look closely, there are noteworthy differences among U.S. subcultures. How do the dominant ethnic, racial, and religious groups in this country differ with regard to standards of gender expression? And how should our understanding of these differences inform our efforts as advocates of gender-variant children and youth? — Will Fellows and Kathleen Kaufelt, facilitators.

Once Upon a (Recent) Time: Coming Out Stories of LGBT Youth
Several LGBT youth will share their coming out stories, encouraging all participants to share their own histories of discovering and disclosing their sexual orientation and gender identity. The session will consider the differences and similarities of experiences by various age, race, economic, and gender cohorts, including the important distinctions between LGBT youth and their peers. Particular emphasis is placed on the impact of gender expression by LGBT youth in middle school and high school. — Gary Hollander and Mark O’Neil, facilitators.

 

Panel discussion
Plenary speakers and breakout facilitators. — Bronze Quinton, moderator.

 

 

Registration Fee:  $100.00

Attendance is limited to the first 150 registrants.

The Milwaukee chapter of PFLAG is offering financial assistance for this conference.  For details, please contact Will Fellows at wfellows@wecanaeyc.org, or 414-278-9322, ext 2006.

Register online or Mail check and "paper registration" to:

WACTE
518 Potomac Lane
Madison WI 53719
608-833-5858
Email: wacteorg@chorus.net
Website: www.wacteonline.org