Not all of us live in major metropolitan areas with access to specialists well versed in treating
gender variant and trans youth.
Do you live in rural America?
Do you need practical tips
and techniques to find healthcare providers for your child?
This is the course for you. In this hands-on, interactive session, we will empower you with tools
to find, screen, network, and educate your child's healthcare team.
Kelley Winters, Ph.D., Is a writer on issues of transgender medial policy, founder of GID reform Advocates and an Advisory board member for the Matthew Shepard Foundation. Kelley has presented papers on the psychiatric classification of gender diversity at the annual conventions of the American Psychiatric Association, the American Counseling Association and the Association of Women in Psychology. She also holds the distinguished position of TransYouth Family Advocates MENTOR.
Kim Pearson is Executive Director of TransYouth Family Advocates, National Vice President of PFLAG-TNET and the President of Lake Havasu City PFLAG. Kim and her 15 year old affirmed male son (Youth Advocate, Shawn Pearson) have been featured on CNN's Newsroom. Kim does frequent radio interviews and recently authored a feature magazine article "Difference isn't wrong... it just is." Kim travels the US extensively , speaking on behalf of gender variant children at schools, medical and social work offices and GLBT organizations