True Spirit 2000 Conference-at-A-Glance

Friday's Schedule

Saturday's Schedule

Sunday's Schedule

Event

Time

Exhibit Hall

Saturday: 9:00am - 5:00 pm
Sunday: 9:00am - 4:00pm

Art Show

Friday: Artists Reception (5:00 - 9:00pm)
Saturday: Artists Reception (8:00 - 10:00am)
10:00am - 5:00pm
Sunday: 10:00am - 5:00pm

Hospitality Suite

Friday: 4:00pm - 1:00am + (Evening Videos)
Saturday: 9:00am - 1:00am+ (Evening Videos)
Sunday: 9:00am - 4:00pm

Medical Exams

Sunday: 10:00am - 1:00pm

Workshops

Friday: 2:00 - 4:45pm, 9:30 - 11:00pm
Saturday: 8:45am - 5:15pm, 9:30 - 11:00pm
Sunday: 8:45am - 3:45pm

Plenaries/Keynotes

Friday: 7:00 - 9:00pm
Saturday: 7:00 - 9:00pm
Sunday: 4:00 - 5:30pm

 

Workshop Listing by Category

[Use this listing to easily identify where some of your favorite workshops are scheduled.
After the day:time is the room that the workshop is assigned.]

Health/Wellness

Chest Surgery Overview I: with Michael Brownstein (Saturday: 10:00 - 11:00am, 1)
Chest Surgery Overview II: With Dr. Jim Reardon
(Sunday: 8:45 - 9:45am, 2)
Gynecologic Health
(Saturday: 8:45 - 9:45am, 3)
HBSOC: Basics/Overview (Saturday: 4:00 - 5:15pm, 1)
HBSOC: Providers Caucus (Sunday: 1:00 - 2:15pm, 1)
How to be Helpful: Training for Support Service Providers (Saturday: 2:30 - 3:45pm, 2)
Intersexed Caucus (Friday: 2:00 - 3:15pm, 6)
Living Long Term Caucus (Sunday: 8:45 - 9:45am, 4)
Metaoidoioplasty (Saturday: 2:30 - 3:45pm, 1)
Navigating the Land of Therapy 101 (Saturday: 1:00 - 2:15pm, 1)
no-hos & lo-do-hos (Saturday: 11:15 - 12:15, 2)
Non-op Caucus (Saturday: 11:15 - 12:15, 3)
"Not Like Me" -- Sexworkers and Street Kids (Sunday: 10:00 - 11:00am, 1)
Nutrition Caucus (Sunday: 2:30 - 3:45pm, 4)
Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence (Sunday: 1:00 - 2:15pm, 4)
Testosterone: The Shot Heard 'Round Our World (Friday: 2:00 - 3:15pm, 1)
The FtM Jock's Body Maintenance Crash Course (Sunday: 11:15 - 12:15, 1)
Top Surgery Show and Tell (Friday: 9:30 - 11:00pm, 5)
Transitioning in a Tempest: Staying Sane and Sober (Friday: 9:30 - 11:00pm, 3)


Identities

32 Flavors and Then Some: The Many Masculinities of Our Lives (Sunday: 10:00 - 11:00am, 4)
Aging Caucus (Saturday: 10:00 - 11:00am, 5)
Building Community Across Labels (Caucus) (Friday: 3:30 - 4:45pm, 2)
Butch Caucus (Sunday: 8:45 - 9:45am, 1)
Butch to FTM Chat: LIVE (Friday: 3:30 - 4:45pm, 4)
Canadian Caucus (Friday: 3:30 - 4:45pm, 1)
Fat 101- A Revolution in the Making! (Saturday: 2:30 - 3:45pm, 4)
Finding Voice in Shifting Space: A Writing Workshop (Saturday: 4:00 - 5:15pm, 2)
FTM 101: Things your Parents Never Told You (Saturday: 1:00 - 2:15pm, 5)
Having pride in being trans/Butch (Saturday: 10:00 - 11:00am, 2)
How to Survive Poverty: (Bag Lunch) (Saturday: 12:15 - 1:00, 5)
Masculine Mannerisms and Speech (Sunday: 11:15 - 12:15, 4)
Mentoring Masculinity: How We Learn What We Do (Saturday: 2:30 - 3:45pm, 5)
Negotiating Having Visibly/Noticeably Trans Bodies (Sunday: 10:00 - 11:00am, 2)
One Step Closer to the Edge: Experiences w/in Communities of Color (Sunday: 2:30 - 3:45pm, 3)
Peer Support Group Techniques for FTMs (Saturday: 4:00 - 5:15pm, 3)
People of Color Caucus (Friday: 2:00 - 3:15pm, 4)
Queer as Fuck (Saturday: 1:00 - 2:15pm, 3)
Shades of Gray (Sunday: 11:15 - 12:15, 3)
Stayin' Freaky (Sunday: 1:00 - 2:15pm, 6)
Stone Butch Identity (Caucus) (Saturday: 11:15 - 12:15, 5)
Style and Clothing for the Self-Made Man (Sunday: 8:45 - 9:45am, 5)
Talking about Our Bodies: Disability and Trans Identity (Caucus) (Sunday: 2:30 - 3:45pm, 5)



Legal/Political

Allies with Integrity (Saturday: 8:45 - 10:00, 4)
GLAAD roundtable about media images of the FTM community (Sunday: 2:30 - 3:45pm, 2)
How To Successfully Transition in Your Employment (Sunday: 8:45 - 9:45am, 6)
Making the IRS work for you! (Saturday: 8:45 - 9:45am, 1)
MediaPresence: Interview Strategy and Technique (GLAAD) (Friday: 2:00 - 5:00pm, 5)
Our Role in the Revolution! Ending Oppression (Saturday: 1:00 -2:15pm, 6)
The Politics of Passing (Sunday: 1:00 - 2:15pm, 2)
Trans Feminism (Saturday: 11:15 - 12:15, 4)
Trans Rights 101 (Saturday: 10:00 - 11:00am, 6)
Working to Eradicate Racial Privilege (Saturday: 2:30 - 3:45pm, 6)
Working with Allied Organizations (Sunday: 11:15 - 12:15, 2)

Relationships/SOFFA

Attracting your Ideal Soulmate (Saturday: 8:45 - 9:45am, 6)
Butch/Femme relationships (Saturday: 1:00 - 2:15pm, 2)
Butch/FTM - Butch/Butch Relationships Caucus (Sunday: 2:30 - 3:45pm, 1)
Families in Transtion (Saturday: 2:30 - 3:45pm, 3)
Family Relationships: Coming Out and Coping (Sunday: 10:00 - 11:00am, 5)
Femme-Talk (Sunday: 10:00 - 11:00am, 3)
I Wasn't Queer Then -- FTMs and SOs with Heterosexual Pasts (Sunday: 1:00 - 2:15pm, 5)
Mr. Mom and Other Trans/parents (Saturday: 4:00 - 5:15pm, 4)
Parents of T's Caucus (Friday: 3:30 - 4:45pm, 3)
Straight Talk: Heterosexual Transmen (Sunday: 1:00 - 2:15pm, 3)
Straight Women Caucus (Friday: 2:00 - 3:15pm, 2)
The Interplay of Difference: Creating Heterosexual Imagery (Saturday: 1:00 - 2:15pm, 4)
Trans-Trans Intimacy & Sex (Saturday: 11:15 - 12:15, 6)
Transensual Femme Caucus (saturday) (Saturday: 10:00 - 11:00am, 3)
Transitioning Within a Long-Term Relationship (Caucus) (Saturday: 8:45 - 9:45am, 2)


Sexuality

Bi/Pan/Poly/Pomo (Sunday: 2:30 - 3:45pm, 6)
Branding (after SM201) (Saturday: 22:30+, 6)
Breaking A Sweat: Cruising and Flirting with Women (Sunday: 11:15 - 12:15, 6)
Cock Talk: A Discussion about Sex and the Erotic (for FTMs/Butches) (Saturday: 4:00 - 5:15pm, 6)
Daddies and Their Grrlz, Boyz, and Admirers (Saturday: 8:45 - 9:45am, 5)
Gay FTM Relationships (Sunday: 11:15 - 12:15, 5)
Gay/Bi-oriented-ftm how-to-flirt-with-men (Sunday: 10:00 - 11:00am, 6)
Playing with Fire: A Discussion about Sex and the Erotic (for SOs) (Saturday: 4:00 - 5:15pm, 5)
Safer Sex and Intimacy: Hot, Wet and Wild (Friday: 3:30 - 4:45pm, 6)
SM101 - Just the Basics Boyz (Friday: 9:30 - 11:00pm, 6)
SM201: Advanced Training (Saturday: 9:30 - 11:00pm, 6)


Spirituality

Between The Worlds: A Spiritual Journey (Friday: 9:30 - 11:00pm, 4)
Moving Beyond Fear...Embracing Life Lessons (Saturday: 9:30 - 11:00pm, 5)
Religion and Trans intersect (Saturday: 10:00 - 11:00am, 4)


Youth

Bridging the Gap: Youth/Adult Interface (Sunday: 8:45 - 9:45am, 3)
Youth accessing medical care (Saturday: 11:15 - 12:15, 1)
Youth Caucus (Friday: 2:00 - 3:15pm, 3)


Friday

Time

Room 1

Room 2

Room 3

Room 4

Room 5

Room 6

Time

12:00 - 13:45

Registration / Socializing

12:00 - 13:45

14:00 - 15:15

Testosterone: The Shot Heard 'Round Our World

Straight Women Caucus

Youth Caucus

People of Color Caucus

MediaPresence: Interview Strategy and Technique (GLAAD)

Intersexed Caucus

14:00 - 15:15

15:30 - 16:45

Canadian Caucus

Building Community Across Labels (Caucus)

Parents of T's Caucus

Butch to FTM Chat: LIVE

Safer Sex and Intimacy: Hot, Wet and Wild

 

15:30 - 16:45

17:00 – 19:00

 

Dinner (on your own)

 

17:00 – 19:00

19:00 – 21:00

Plenary/Keynotes

Speakers: Loree Cook-Daniels

Bet Power

Jason Cromwell

19:00 – 21:00

21:30 – 23:00

Evening Entertainment

21:30 – 23:00

21:30 – 23:00

(Make your own workshop/caucus.

Sign up to use the extra available rooms)

Transitioning in a Tempest: Staying Sane and Sober

 

Between The Worlds: A Spiritual Journey

Top Surgery Show and Tell

SM101 - Just the Basics Boyz

 

 

21:30 – 23:00


Saturday

Time

Room 1

Room 2

Room 3

Room 4

08:45 - 09:45

Making the IRS work for you!

Transitioning Within a Long-Term Relationship (Caucus)

Gynecologic Health

Allies with Integrity: How Non-Trans Partners can be the Best Allies We Can Be

10:00 - 11:00

Chest Surgery Overview I: with Michael Brownstein

Having Pride In Being Trans/Butch

Transensual Femme Caucus

 

Religion and Trans Intersect

11:15 - 12:15

Youth Accessing Medical Care

No-Hos & Lo-Do-Hos

Non-op Caucus

Trans Feminism

12:15 – 13:00

Lunch (on your own)

13:00 – 14:15

Navigating the Land of Therapy 101

Butch/Femme Relationships

Queer as Fuck

The Interplay of Difference: Creating Heterosexual Imagery

14:30 - 15:45

Metaoidoioplasty

Michael Brownstein

How to be Helpful: Training for Support Service Providers

Kit Rachlin, Ph.D

Families in Transtion

Fat 101- A Revolution in the Making!

16:00 - 17:15

HBSOC: Basics/Overview

Finding Voice in Shifting Space: A Writing Workshop

Peer Support Group Techniques for FTMs

Mr. Mom and Other Trans/Parents

17:15 – 19:00

Dinner (on your own)

18:30 – 19:00

PFLAG Reception

19:00 – 21:00

Plenary/Keynotes

Speakers: Enoch Page

Beth Harrison-Prado

Karen and Bob Gross

21:30 – 24:00

Entertainment

 

Saturday

Room 5

Room 6

Room 7 (Authors)

Time

Daddies (FTM, Butch and BioMale) and Their Grrlz, Boyz, and Admirers

Attracting your Ideal Soulmate

Mary Boenke

"Trans Forming Families: Real Stories About Transgendered Loved Ones:

08:45 - 09:45

Kitten Gross

"Trans Forming Families"

Aging Caucus

Trans Rights 101

Jason Cromwell

"Transmen and FTMs: Identities, Bodies, Genders, Sexualities"

10:00 - 11:00

Stone Butch Identity (Caucus)

Trans-Trans Intimacy & Sex

Cheryl Chase

11:15 - 12:15

AJ

How to Survive Poverty: People with Long Term Experience Successfully coping with poverty (Bag Lunch)

Lunch (on your own)

12:15 – 13:00

FTM 101: Things your Parents Never Told You

Our Role in the Revolution! How DO We End Oppression In Our Communities?

Raven Kaldera

"Hermaphrodeities: The Transgender Spirituality Workbook"

13:00 – 14:15

Mentoring Masculinity: How We Learn What We Do

Working to Eradicate Racial Privilege and the Rules of Racial Standing in the FTM Community: Critical Self-inspection as a Pathway to Equity

 

(Make your own workshop/caucus.

Sign up to use the extra available rooms)

14:30 - 15:45

Playing with Fire: A Discussion about Sex and the Erotic for Lovers, Playmates, Partners, and Spouses

Cock Talk: A Discussion about Sex and the Erotic for FTMs, Transmen, and Butches

 

 

(Make your own workshop/caucus.

Sign up to use the extra available rooms)

16:00 - 17:15

Dinner (on your own)

17:15 – 19:00

PFLAG Reception

18:30 – 19:00

Plenary/Keynotes

Speakers: Enoch Page

Beth Harrison-Prado

Karen and Bob Gross

19:00 – 21:00

Moving Beyond Fear...Embracing Life Lessons

SM201: Advanced Training

Branding (after SM201)

(Make your own workshop/caucus.

Sign up to use the extra available rooms)

21:30 – 24:00

 

Sunday

Time

Room 1

Room 2

Room 3

Room 4

08:45 - 09:45

Butch Caucus

Chest Surgery Overview II: With Dr. Jim Reardon

Bridging the Gap: Youth/Adult Interface

Living Long Term Caucus

10:00 - 11:00

"Not Like Me" -- Sexworkers and Street Kids in the Transgender Community

Negotiating Having Visably/Noticeably Trans Bodies

Femme-Talk

32 Flavors and Then Some: The Many Masculinities of Our Lives

11:15 - 12:15

The FtM Jock's Body Maintenance Crash Course: Fitness and Nutrition for the Transmasculine

Working with Allied Organizations

Shades of Gray

Masculine Mannerisms and Speech

12:15 – 13:00

Lunch (on your own)

13:00 – 14:15

HBSOC: Providers Caucus

The Politics of Passing: FTMs, Transmen, Butches, and Privilege

Straight Talk: Heterosexual Transmen

Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence

14:30 - 15:45

Butch/FTM - Butch/Butch Relationships Caucus

GLAAD Roundtable About Media Images of the FTM Community

One Step Closer to the Edge: FTM, Transman, Butch and SOFFA Experiences Within Communities of Color

Nutrition Caucus

16:00 - 17:30

 

Closing Ceremony/Plenary/Keynote

Speaker: Stephen Whittle

 

20:00 - 22:00

 

Pool Party

 

 

 

Sunday

Room 5

Room 6

Room 7 (Authors)

Time

Style and Clothing for the Self-Made Man

How To Successfully Transition in Your Employment

Eli Clare

"Exile And Pride; Disability, Queerness, And Liberation"

08:45 - 09:45

Family Relationships: Coming Out and Coping

Gay/Bi-oriented-ftm How-to-Flirt-With-Men

Gary Bowen

10:00 - 11:00

Gay FTM Relationships

Breaking A Sweat: The Fine Art of Cruising and Flirting with Women

(Make your own workshop/caucus.

Sign up to use the extra available rooms)

11:15 - 12:15

Lunch (on your own)

12:15 – 13:00

I Wasn't Queer Then -- A workshop for FTMs and SOs with Heterosexual Pasts

Stayin' Freaky

 

(Make your own workshop/caucus.

Sign up to use the extra available rooms)

13:00 – 14:15

Talking about Our Bodies: Disability and Trans Identity (Caucus)

Bi/Pan/Poly/Pomo

 

(Make your own workshop/caucus.

Sign up to use the extra available rooms)

14:30 - 15:45

 

Closing Ceremony/ Plenary/Keynote

Speaker: Stephen Whittle

 

16:00 - 17:30

 

Pool Party

 

20:00 - 22:00