Dear Fellow WPATH members:I hope you enjoy reading the International Journal of Transgenderism (IJT) as a perk of your WPATH membership. Over the past few years the Associate Editorial Board and I have been trying to establish IJT as a competitive, internationally renowned, valuable vehicle for scholarship and new thinking in theory and practice in transgender health.We shared a vision for the future of IJT with you in the editorial entitled “Moving Forward” in 2016.  Basically, we had 3 objectives to achieve for I ...Continue Reading

*WPATH Student Initiative – Ballot – Vice Co-Chair and Student Representative to the Board of Directors Elect *Dear Student Members of WPATH:On behalf of the WPATH Student Initiative and the Board of Directors, we are pleased to present you with the ballot for the next WPATH Student Initiative (WSI) Vice Co-Chair and Student Representative to the Board of Directors Elect.* *We released an open call for nominations from October 5, 2019 to October 21, 2019, and we received seven qualified applicants for this role. We are ...Continue Reading

The USPATH Board of Directors invites you to suggest venues/cities for the USPATH 2021 Scientific Symposium. We want to include cities we may not yet have considered when searching for the right location for the conference.Please submit your form by November 17, 2019. Click here to submit your city.All suggested cities will be reviewed by national representatives when we submit the RFP (Request for Proposal) for USPATH 2021._Community Involvement_In a continuing effort to ensure greater collaboration with local tra ...Continue Reading

The USPATH Board thanks the Community Rapporteurs (Dorcas Adedoja, Gaines Blasdel, Nova Bradford and Lotus Đào) and Community Liaison Londyn Smith-De Richelieu, for their efforts in the facilitation of the Town Hall at the 2019 USPATH Scientific Symposium. The goal of the Town Hall was to provide an opportunity for the current Board, who were not in place at the 2017 meeting, to listen to the perspectives and concerns of members of the community, in response to feedback about the process and transparency rec ...Continue Reading

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS Student Initiative Vice Co-Chair & Student Representative to the Board of Directors Elect Due Monday, October 21, 2019   WPATH is looking for a student Vice Co-Chair and Student Representative to the Board of Directors Elect. This elected position spans approximately 2 years, running from November 1, 2019 through the 26th Biennial Symposium in 2020 as the Vice Co-Chair and then assuming the Co-Chair role for the following year until the WPATH Board Annual General Meeting in 2021.& ...Continue Reading

Dear WPATH Members:In response to concerns expressed by some members regarding the WPATH nominations process for election of officers and directors-at-large, the WPATH Board charged a task force to review the process again.The Elections Task Force (ETF) met via conference calls and reviewed the bylaws, nominations, and elections procedures of numerous health organizations, including some international groups. Input was then requested from the Executive Committees/Boards of AusPATH, CPATH, EPATH, and USPATH. The groups w ...Continue Reading

There is one week left to submit your research proposal for WPATH’s inaugural Pilot Research Project Program for 2019-2020! Don’t miss out on this opportunity to fund your project! ALL WPATH Members are encouraged to apply, including students. In order to stimulate new investigation in transgender/gender non-binary health care, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) is soliciting proposals for its inaugural Pilot Research Project program for 2019-2020.  WPATH expects to fund 5 pilot ...Continue Reading

Dear WPATH Members and Colleagues:Please Mark your Calendars and Save the Date for the *26th WPATH Scientific Symposium being held in Hong Kong, November 6 – 10, 2020.*The pre-courses will be held on Friday, November 6 & Saturday, November 7 The opening session will be held on Saturday, November 7 at 5:00pm The scientific program will be held on Sunday, November 8 – Tuesday, November 10 The conference will be held at the Kerry Hotel in Kowloon, Hong Kong.We are excited to be working with community leaders in Asia to ...Continue Reading

Dear USPATH Attendees:Thank you for being a part of USPATH, we hope you are having a great time at the conference so far.We are sharing the link to view the livestreaming of the Community Town Hall Session TODAY from 5:00pm to 6:30pm.If you have registered to attend or livestream the session, you will receive a second email with this information but the Community Rapporteurs wanted to send the link to all registered attendees of USPATH.The Town Hall will be held in the *Diplomat Ballroom (Level 1B) *at the Omn ...Continue Reading

Don't Miss Delegate Danica Roem's Keynote Address*Thursday September 5, 2019 at 5:00pm*Delegate Danica Roem won a historic election in 2017 to become the first out-and-seated transgender state legislator in American history, Delegate Roem joined a bi-partisan coalition of state lawmakers in 2018 to expand Medicaid to 400,000 uninsured Virginians and raise teacher pay throughout the commonwealth. Delegate Roem’s address to USPATH attendees will be followed by a Plenary Session titled National Study of the US Trans Popula ...Continue Reading