Date: 06/05/2009 Source: AETC National Resource Center; Pacific AETC and New England AETC
Presenters: Walter Bockting, PhD, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Medical School, University of Minnesota; Jamison Green, M.F.A., Author and Educator, Board of Directors, World Professional Association for Transgender Health.; JoAnne Keatley, MSW, Pacific AETC, Center of Excellence for Transgender HIV Prevention, UCSF; Jae Sevelius, PhD, Assistant Professor, Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) UCSF and Lori Kohler, MD, Correctional Medicine Consultation Network, Professor of Clinical Family and Community Medicine, UCSF Description: This teleconference-based training exchange comprised brief, practical presentations of a range of material, including:
 | Transgender 101 (Greene) |  | | Epidemiology of HIV in trans communities in the U.S. (Keatley) | | | Effective HIV prevention interventions (Sevelius) | | | Mental health concerns and support (Bockting) | | | General health care concerns for transgender patients (Kohler) | |
Other Resources Bibliography from Presentation Current Epidemiology | Herbst, J., Jacobs, E., Finlayson, T., McKleroy, V., Neumann, M., & Crepaz, N. (2007). Estimating HIV prevalence and risk behaviors of transgender persons in the United States: A systematic review. AIDS and Behavior. (Cited on slide 18) | | | California Department of Health Services. (2006). California HIV counseling and testing annual report: January - December 2003. . Sacramento, CA: Office of AIDS. (Cited on slide 20) | | | Melendez, R., Exner, T., Ehrhardt, A., Dodge, B., Remien, R., Rotheram-Borus, M., et al. (2005). Health and health care among male-to-female transgender persons who are HIV positive. American Journal of Public Health, 95, 5-7. (Cited on slide 21) | | | Operario, D., Soma, T., & Underhill, K. (2008). Sex work and HIV status among transgender women: Systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 48(1), 97-103. (Cited on slide 26) | | | Clements-Nolle, K., Marx, R., Guzman, R., & Katz, M. (2001). HIV prevalence, risk behaviors, health care use, and mental health status of transgender persons: Implications for public health intervention. American Journal of Public Health, 91, 915-921. (Cited on slide 28) | | | Nemoto, T., Luke, D., Mamo, L., Ching, A., & Patria, J. (1999). HIV risk behaviors among male-to-female transgenders in comparison with homosexual or bisexual males and heterosexual females. AIDS Care, 11(3), 297-312. (Cited on slide 28) | | | Risser, J. M. H., Shelton, A., McCurdy, S., Atkinson, J., Padgett, P., Useche, B., et al. (2005). Sex, drugs, violence, and HIV status among male-to-female transgender persons in Houston, Texas. International Journal of Transgenderism, 8(2/3), 67-74. (Cited on slide 28) | | | Garafalo, R., Deleon, J., Osmer, E., Doll, M., & Harper, G. (2006). Overlooked, misunderstood, and at-risk: Exploring the lives and HIV risk of ethnic minority male-to-female transgender youth. Journal of Adolescent Health, 38, 230-236. (Cited on slide 28) | |
Prevention Interventions | Bockting, W.O., Robinson, B.E., Forberg, J.B., & Scheltema, K. (2005). Evaluation of a sexual health approach to reducing HIV/STD risk in the transgender community. AIDS Care, 17(3), 289-303. | | | Bockting, W.O., Rosser, B.R.S., & Coleman, E. (2000). Transgender HIV prevention: A model education workshop. Journal of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, 4(4), 175-183. | | | Bockting, W.O., Rosser, B.R.S., & Scheltema, K. (1999a). Transgender HIV prevention: Implementation and evaluation of a workshop. Health Education Research; Theory and Practice 14(2), 177-183. | | | Hein, D. & Kirk, M. (1999). Education and soul-searching: the Enterprise HIV prevention group. In International Journal of Transgenderism [On-line], 3(1/2). Available: www.symposion.com/ijt | | | Nemoto, T., Operario, D., Keatley, J., Nguyen, H., & Sugano, E. (2005). Promoting health for transgender women: Transgender Neighborhood Space (TRANS) program in San Francisco. American Journal of Public Health, 95(3), 382-384. | | | Warren, B.E. (1999). Sex, truth, and videotape: HIV prevention at the Gender Identity Project in New York City. International Journal of Transgenderism [On-line], 3(1/2). Available: www.symposion.com/ijt Jun 5 2009. | |
Mental Health | Bockting, W. (2008). From gender dichotomy to gender diversity: Implications for psychotherapy and the Real Life Experience. Sexologies, 17, 211-224. | | | Bockting, W., & Coleman, E. (2007). Developmental stages of the transgender coming out process: Toward an integrated identity. In Ettner, R., Monstrey, S., & Eyler, E. (Eds.), Principles of transgender medicine and surgery (pp. 185-208). New York: The Haworth Press. | | | Bockting, W.O., & Goldberg, J.M. (2006). Guidelines for transgender care. Double special issue of the International Journal of Transgenderism, 9(3/4), simultaneously published as a volume by the Haworth Press. | | | Rosser, B.R.S., Oakes, J.M., Bockting, W.O., Babes, G., & Miner, M. (2007). Capturing the social demographics of hidden sexual minorities: An Internet study of the transgender population in the United States. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 4(2), 50-64. | |
Websites Books | Transparent: Love Family and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers, by Cris Beam, Harcourt, NY, 2007. | | | The Transgender Child: A Handbook for Families and Professionals, by Stephanie Brill and Rachel Pepper, Cleis Press, San Francisco, 2008. | |
Questions?If you have any follow-up questions please contact Veronica Jones at jonesve@umdnj.edu. |
