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Call for Proposals

Thank you for your interest in submitting a content proposal for the 2023 TransPride YOUniting Health & Wellness Conference. The conference takes place on November 7th, 8th, and 9th this year. Live content will be presented between 8am and 6pm Eastern Daylight Time.

All content will be presented in English via the Whova online events platform. This enables us to accept submissions from across the English-speaking world to present to an audience that spans the globe.

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The first step in the process will create an account with us on this platform, then you can return anytime to continue editing your proposal before submitting it to us!

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Our conference is a collaborative academic, lived experience, and community event. Professional continuing education (available for credit in the U.S.) is open to all attendees including Transgender and Gender Diverse (TGD) community members and their caregivers who can register to attend the entire conference at no cost.

We will consider all submissions and will give preference to fresh ideas and proposals by or that include and elevate the voices of TGD people. 

We would love to specifically see submissions related to:

  • Behavioral Health (including autism and other co-occurring mental health diagnoses, impact of the current political climate, peer-support, support in schools, supporting spouses and parents, etc.)
  • Medical (aging and elder care, culturally competency, care in rural locations, gender affirmation, novel medical therapies, menstrual management, surgical techniques, surgical complication management, physical and occupational therapy, voice and communication, etc.)
  • Lived Experience (panels sharing their experience of specific interventions or procedures, finding and connecting with community, navigating legal document changes, etc.)

Notably, we do discourage the following:  

  • Proposals that center cisgender/heterosexual experiences
  • Proposals that pathologize transgender and nonbinary people
  • Proposals enforcing a gender binary
  • Workshops utilizing out-of-date content and language  

If your proposal does not fully fit into our current structure, please reach out to our team to discuss this further and we will try to accommodate you if possible.

Proposals can be submitted by first creating an account or logging in. The form is broken into multiple sections and will take approximately 15 minutes to complete. This form does not time out. Once your account is created, you can log in and continue editing your proposal until you’re ready to submit it to the organizers for review. The form sections are outlined below:

  1. Your Contact Information, collects your name, contact details, and affiliations—completing this step creates your account!
  2. Demographic Information—optional
  3. Session Information
    • Type of Presentation, choices include Workshop, Abstract, or Community Project Update
    • Title of Proposal (listed in the agenda)
    • Brief Narrative Description (for the agenda)
    • Topic Areas (for building the agenda)
    • Primary Target Audience (for building the agenda)
    • Recording consent
    • Professional Credentials and/or Years of Lived Experience
    • Speaker Bio
  4. Continuing Education (CE) Credit Eligibility, tells us if you’re planning to offer CE credits for your session
    • Academic Citations (for accreditation only)
  5. Continuing Education (CE) Credit Requirements, additional information required to offer CE credits
    • Breakdown/Outline of your Presentation (for the planning committee)
    • List of Goals/Objectives (for your audience)
  6. Session Speakers, collects the names and contact Information for co-presenters, panelists, and other speakers, if applicable. Our platform will automatically send an email to the speakers listed here at 9:00am Eastern Time the next day to invite them to submit their information and complete speaker bios, disclosures, etc.
  7. Speaker Availability, collects your availability timeslots for the schedule—subject to confirmation and only applicable to speakers
  8. Submit an Audio-Visual Release (AVR) to present through Zoom (needed from everyone)
  9. Submit a Conflict of Interest (COI) disclosure, only needed from speakers in sessions offering Continuing Education (CE) credits