Dear WPATH 26th Scientific Symposium Attendees*Please note this secondary contact email address for Symposium-related questions**wpathinfo@PROTECTED*We have set this up due to an outage by Microsoft on their 365 Outlook servers, and we wanted to make sure you could reach us if you needed to.We are so excited to be hosting the first-ever virtual WPATH Scientific Symposium kicking off tomorrow, November 6th, and we look forward to seeing you there.Best regardsBlaineBlaine Vella, Executive Director ...Continue Reading

November 4, 2020 On behalf of the Board of Directors of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), we want to thank all the outstanding candidates for putting their names forward to run for the Global Board and for their willingness to serve WPATH. The affairs of WPATH shall be managed by its Board of Directors, who will be elected by the membership. The Executive Committee composed of the Association Officers and Executive Director may meet to conduct the routine business of the Associ ...Continue Reading

*NOTICE OF WPATH 2020 Members Business Meeting**Date, Time, Location Announcement*Dear WPATH MembersWe hope this email finds you all safe and healthy. We are looking forward to our 26th Scientific Symposium, being held virtually November 6 – 10, 2020, we hope you are planning to join us.We are happy to announce the date, time, and format for the WPATH 2020 Members Business Meeting.*Date:                       &n ...Continue Reading

*Invited Plenary Session Spotlight* Please join representatives from the World Association for Sexual Health for a robust presentation on the following topics:Friday, November 6, 2020: 1:40pm - 2:55pm ET (GMT-5) The Impact of Gatekeeping: A Candid DiscussionPresented by Dr. Yuko Higashi With insight gained from over 25 years of experience working with trans* communities and through service as a founding board member of a professional society for transgender care in Japan, Higashi will prese ...Continue Reading

*Invited Plenary Session Spotlight* International Society for Sexual MedicineSexual Health in COVID TimesSunday, November 8, 2020 from 11:25am – 12:40pm ET (GMT-5)*Annamaria Giraldi, MD, PhD - President*Professor Annamaria Giraldi is Senior Consultant in Psychiatry in the Sexological Clinic at Psychiatric Center Copenhagen and Professor in Clinical Sexology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, where she also received her medical degree and PhD.Professor Giraldi has been involved in basic research on vascular a ...Continue Reading

September 29, 2020Dear WPATH Members and Colleagues:We hope this email finds you safe and healthy during these challenging times.As a WPATH Voting Member (Full, Emeritus), we are pleased to let you know that the 2020 Slate of Officers and Board Member-at-Large ballot is ready for you to review and vote on.*Deadline for voting is Sunday, October 25, 2020 at 11:59pm ET.*You will be receiving your ballot _directly from Survey Monkey_. The message and link to vote will be sent to the email address associated with your WPATH ...Continue Reading

Dear Fellow WPATH Members:*CLICK THIS LINK TO COMPLETE THE SURVEY - if you have already completed it - Thanks so much!*Given that we are a global organization, our vision is that our Ethics Guidelines, training courses and SOCv8 recommendations must strive to be globally relevant. We assume that our members already follow the ethical principles as set out by their respective professional organizations. Implicit in most of the Global North*, professional ethics is an emphasis on autonomy and the individual. We know ...Continue Reading

*Symposium Highlight:*Join Dr. Michael Marshall on Friday, November 6, 2020 at 9:00am ET (GMT-5) for his Plenary Session titled:*Walking a Tightrope, Intersectionality and Trans Identities*Dr. Michael Marshall, MBBS, MRCPsych, CCT, PgDip (Mental Health Law), MBA (Ongoing), is a psychiatrist with a special interest in transgender health. He was the inaugural program director at the Gender Program at the University of Alberta Hospital in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Michael Marshall started this new, innovative program with ...Continue Reading

Membership Mentoring SurveyYou are invited to complete this brief survey to determine the interest in the WPATH membership for a mentoring program for student members. The survey should only take you a few minutes to complete. We would like both full members and student members to complete this survey.The link to complete the survey is here: http://bit.ly/WSImentoringThe aim of such a mentoring program (as being proposed by Penelope Strauss and Jared Boot, the Chair and Vice-Chair of the WPATH Student Initiative) is to ...Continue Reading

Dear WPATH Student Initiative Folks!A few years ago as a medical student I designed a medical school elective on transgender health with the help of the WPATH Global Education Initiative Committee. It’s an amazing 11 session course on many aspects of trans health, and the curriculum is mapped to the AAMC LGBT health competencies for medical education. The American Medical Student Association (AMSA) hosts the course though their scholar platform, providing the administrative and zoom support as well as enrollment. Here i ...Continue Reading