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Recent
Events
September 23, 2004. Rutgers University-Newark. Guest speaker for Human Sexuality class. September 18, 2004. Connecticut Pride, Hartford, CT. Speech August 29 2004. Jersey City Pride. Speech August 25-29 2004 LGBTI Health Summit Boston, MA Presentations and workshops with Esther Leidolf-Morris of ISNA and MRKH.org, and Emi Koyama of Intersex Initiative June 28, 2004 Women in Medicine Conference. Provincetown, MA Co-presentation with Kate O'Hanlan, M.D. June 20, 2004 NYC Pride Rally. Speech May 27, 2004. San Francisco Human Rights Commission Hearing. Oral testimony and written testimony by several members of the Bodies Like Ours community. Read the summary. April
30-May 2, 2004 National Conference on Gender, Washington DC.
Elijah Hobbs of Bodies Like Ours did the following workshops: April
27, 2004. NYU School Of Medicine. NYC. Dinner lecture. April 2, 2004. Philadelphia. IFGE Conference. Board member DaleLynn Sims did a workshop. March 5, 2004. Bethlehem, PA. Betsy Driver did two workshops at the Northeast Regional Pride Conference. The subject was the controversy about adding an I to LGBT. March 6, 2004. Piscataway, NJ Rutgers U. Gaining Equality in Marriage Conference held at Rutgers University. March 8, 2004. New York City, NYU. Women's History Month. March 13, 2004. Philadelphia, PA. Trans-Health Conference. Visit their website. March 21, 2004. Nyack, NY. Bodies Like Ours Co-founder, Janet Green presented at the VCS Community Change Project LGBT Education Series. Visit their website Gay Pride of Rockland County for more information. March 25, 2004. Brattleboro, VT. School for International Training. Sponsored by GLoBE (the queer group on campus) and The Women and Gender Alliance. This event was part of Women's History Month celebrations. Visit the website of the school. March 26-27, 2004. New Britain, CT. Our True Colors XI: Opening Doors, Opening Minds. Visit their website for more information.
Connecticut
Children's Medical Center, Hartford, CT. February
2004. Bodies Like Ours Co-Founder Janet Green participated
in a panel discussion on treatment for intersex patients for CCMC’s
residents and other interested staff members. Representatives from
genetics, ethics, endocrinology, urology and psychiatry involved
with intersex patient care discussed a theoretical case and outlined
the steps from diagnosis to immediate and ongiong treatment utilizing
the new patient-centered protocol. Robert Wood Johnson Medical School of NJ, Piscataway, NJ. January 2004. For the 3rd consecutive year, members of the Bodies Like Ours community helped to educate 2nd year medical students during UMDNJ's Human Sexuality Week. Panelists included Founding Board Members Dr. Nina Williams and Deb Hartman, Co-founder Janet Green and Dr. David Sandberg, a pediatric psychologist with the department of endocrinology at Buffalo Children's Hospital. Betsy Driver, Dr. Williams, and Dr. Sandberg also presented a long-form workshop for students specifically interested in intersexuality. Shame Festival, November 2003. Stockholm, Sweden. Bodies Like Ours went to Sweden to give a workshop at the Shame Festival, a conference about queer sexuality. Transcending Boundaries, November 2003. Betsy Driver gave the closing plenary at TBC 2003 in Amherst, MA. The focus of the speech was ally building. Creating Change, November 2003. Betsy Driver, Janet Green, and Tara Medve of Intersex Initiative. The focus of the workshop was discussion around the recent trend of adding an I to GLBT. GLSEN Teaching Respect for All, National Conference, September 2003. Betsy Driver and Elijah Hobbs of Queer Bodies braved Hurricane Isabel to give a workshop to educators and empowered students in DC. NASW-NJ, September, 2003. Bodies Like Ours Board Member, Dr. Nina Williams, PsyD, and Betsy Driver presented an advanced workshop for attendees of the National Assn. of Social Workers-NJ Understanding And Respecting Difference 2003 conference. The focus of the workshop was to help social workers and counselors better understand their IS clients. Hartford Action, September, 2003. Please see our Hartford wrap-up. NY City LGBT Center, June 12, 2003 Leading scholars, activists, and physicians gathered for a discussion challenging social and medical attitudes concerning intersexuality. Participants included Suzanne Kessler, Professor of Psychology at Purchase University and author of Lessons from the Intersexed; Betsy Driver, Co-founder and Executive Director of Bodies Like Ours; Dr. Kenneth Glassberg, Director of Pediatric Urology at the Children’s Hospital of New York and Professor of Surgery at Columbia University; and Ellen Feder, member of the Intersex Society of North America and author of "Doctor’s Orders: Parents and Intersexed Children" in The Subject of Care: Feminist Perspectives on Dependency. SUNY-UB Medical School, May 9, 2003 Buffalo, NY Betsy Driver sat on a dynamic and informative panel about intersex at a special educational program for medical students at SUNY-UB Medical School. Ironically, this was the medical school that supplied doctors in training at the hospital she was treated at as a child. The panel also included a parent advocate, an ethicist, a pediatric urologist, and a pediatric endocrinologist. National Conference on Gender, May 17-19, 2003 Washington, DC. Janet Green of Bodies Like Ours attended the National Conference on Gender, sponsored by GenderPAC . The Intersex panel, "Making Babies into Boys and Girls"will be held Sunday, May18, 1-230pm in the Yorktown Room, Hyatt Regency, Capital Hill, Washington DC. Janet Green moderated a panel comprised of Angela Moreno Lippert, Max Beck, and Ellen Feder. Metro TV NakedNY with Bob Berkowitz, April 28, 2003 Betsy Driver, Outreach Director, was interviewed on MetroTV--Naked NY with Bob Berkowitz. The program aired at 10pm and Midnight on Cablevision and Time Warner cable systems throughout the metro New York City tri-state area. A VHS copy of the program is available free when a donation of $75.00 USD is made to Bodies Like Ours. Donate now. Albert Einstein College of Medicine, April 3, 2003 Bronx, NY Janet Green, Betsy Driver and Kate Chittenden (Kate is a graduate student doing her dissertation on intersex) did a workshop for the medical students at AECOM in the Bronx, NY. This event--sponsored by EAGLBT, the LGBT organization for students, faculty, and staff at the college--was open to the public. This workshop was the result of what EAGLBT believes is inadequate information about intersex included in the medical educational program at the college. XX Marks the Spot: Stories about Womanhood, a storytelling event was presented by Stories at The Moth on March 24 at the Players Club in New York City. This show included Betsy Driver, telling her story about being intersexed (and surprising even herself that she was able to pull it off it from of 270 paying people!). A copy of this show on VHS which also featured Betty Dodson, PsyD. and a drag queen stuck in a female body (who was stunning) is available free with a $100 donation to Bodies Like Ours. True Colors X, Hartford, CT March 21-22, 2003 Bodies Like Ours presented several workshops at this conference for queer youth, their teachers, and their counselors. Caitlin Childs, Asher Taylor and Betsy Driver did a workshop for teachers to acquaint them with their intersex students. On Saturday, Caitlin, her partner Aiden Chava, and Asher will led a youth-only workshop for intersex youths and their partners--no parents/grown-ups allowed!. Also on Saturday, Nina, Betsy, Asher and Caitlin presented a workshop for social workers and counselors on how they can better serve their intersex clients. Finally. a workshop about intersex called Intersex: Birth to Adult was presented for all attendees by some of the above presenters. Phillips Beth Israel School of Nursing, NYC February 28, 2003 Janet Green and Betsy Driver presented a workshop for the nursing students at Phillips Beth Israel College of Nursing from 1-3pm. The workshop was well-attended by nursing students and faculty at the school and was a great afternoon Robert Wood Johnson Medical School of NJ, Newark, NJ, February 5, 2003 Betsy Driver and Janet Green did a short workshop for medical students at the Medical School of NJ. The workshop was a great success and we are looking forward to returning next year. National Conference on Organized Resistance, January 24-26, 2003, Washington, DC Caitlin and Aiden presented a workshop on Sunday 1/24/2003 called Intersex: What it is and why it should concern you. This workshop confronted social constructs that result in the oppression of intersexed people and helped develop strategies on how to educate people so that they can become allies. For more information, please visit the website of the NCOR. The conference was held at American University. VCS Community Change Project, January 12, 2003, Rockland Cty, NY Intersexuality: First Stop the Harm Betsy Driver and Janet Green of Bodies Like Ours presented a two hour workshop about the new patient-centered protocol to this active and interested community organization in Nyack, NY. The workshop was held in the village hall and it was the first time we ever presented in government meeting space. A special thanks to the Village of Nyack for making this community meeting space available. Human Sexuality Week Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ Sexual health is a fundamental human right and need, as important to the individual as other physical or mental health needs. The Human Sexuality Program aims to foster and promote greater awareness of this fundamental need, and to develop core clinical skills such as sexual history taking and problem identification. Janet, Nina, Deb, and Betsy of Bodies Like Ours presented a panel discussion about intersexuality called Personal and Clinical Perspectives on Wednesday, January 8, 2003. It was followed up that afternoon in an elective workshop for students. To learn more about RWJMS Sex Week, visit their website Creating Change The annual conference of the National Gay and Lesbian Taskforce (NGLTF) was held November 6-10, 2002 in Portland, OR. Bodies Like Ours was there and on Saturday, November 9, 9-1030am gave a workshop called "First Stop the Harm: Intersex in the 21st Century" The focus of the workshop was a discussion of the new patient-centered protocol being prepared by ISNA and other intersex activisits. The workshop was standing room only. Read some of the participant comments from this workshop. The 2002 Institute and Conference of the AAP: The Erotica in Psychotherapy presented a workshop on intersex called Personal Stories of People with Intersexuality: Affective, Practice and Ethical Implications for Psychotherapists. Bodies Like Ours Board Member Joan Whelan presented on the panel. See the AAP Website for more information. PFLAG (Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) adopted a ground-breaking Policy Statement concerning atypical sexual anatomy on September 27, 2002. Read the PFLAG Policy Statement. Bodies Like Ours and ISNA presented at a joint workshop that was well-attended and received. In November, 2002, Janet Green and Betsy Driver presented a workshop in conjunction with DaleLynn Sims at Southern Comfort. Southern Comfort, held annually in Atlanta, GA is the premier conference for genderqueer people and others in all stages of transitioning. On July 31, 2002 ABC News is airing a special on women's health that will include a segment on brain and behavior. This segment is about the effects of androgens in women with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia. Betsy Driver of Bodies Like Ours was interviewed for this segment and included when the show aired. Dr.
Nina Williams, PsyD, a
licensed
pyschologist
practicing in Highland Park, NJ and a Founding Board Member of Bodies
Like Ours has had a case-study paper published in the Summer 2002
issue of The Journal of Psychoanalytic Psychology. For more information
about the paper and case study, please visit Our
Psyches
Betsy Driver and Janet Green attended and presented a workshop at the 2002 National Organization For Women conference held June 21-23 in St. Paul, MN. Read more in the summary of the event. 2002 NOW Conference Janet Green and Betsy Driver of Bodies Like Ours participated in a workshop at the 2nd Annual GenderPac Conference on Gender in Washington, DC, May 18-20,2002. Also on the panel was Dr. Howard Devore. It was moderated by Ellen Feder, Associate Professor at American University. Check back soon for a summary of the events in DC. 2002 Conference on Gender In May, 2002, Betsy Driver taped a 30 minute program for NOW TV's New Directions for Women. This public access program--produced by the Morris County, NJ chapter of the National Organization for Women--was seen throughout most of NJ and Philadelphia throughout the month of July, 2002. Check below for the day, time, and channel to watch the interview. NOW TV On a cold weekend in northern Vermont in November, 2001, Betsy Driver sat on a panel and conducted a workshop at the NE Regional GLBT Summit. The panel and workshop were attended by over 100 men and women from throughout the Northeast. Other recent Bodies Like Ours events include a full day at Keene State College, Keene, NH for Betsy Driver in April, 2002. She spoke to numerous psychology and counseling classes and as a featured speaker of the 1st Annual Womyn's Week. Also in April, 2002, Joan Whelan and Betsy Driver of Bodies Like Ours spoke to a graduate level medical ethics course comprised mostly of professional nurses at Kean University, Union, NJ. In January, 2002, Janet Green, Joan Whelan, and Deb Hartman presented at the 2002 Sex Week Symposium at the Robert Woods Johnson Medical School at Rutgers University in NJ. Below is a summary of the presentation. 2002 UMDNJ Human Sexuality Program In July, 2001, The American Psychological Association held a symposium in San Francisco on the need for psychological counseling for people born with Bodies Like Ours. The following a reprint of the summary of the article from the Journal of the APA. Janet Green and Betsy Driver both participated as part of the panel during the Q & A part. 2001 APA Symposium In June, 2001 the National Organization for Women (NOW) became the first general membership feminist organization to recognize the rights of children with Bodies Like Ours "to choose and be properly and fully informed regarding cosmetic medical procedures involving their bodies or genitals." It was the emotional testimony of people with Bodies Like Ours that led to this groundbreaking resolution being adopted by the full membership. Deb Hartman, Joan Whelan, Janet Green, and Betsy Driver participated. NOW Resolution "No one looks in the classifieds under the heading ACTIVIST WANTED. We are all accidental activists... none of us applied for this job. We become activists because something happens in our lives that so moves us, we simply must take a stand." --Riki Wilchins, Executive Director of Gender PAC.
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