The Oslo International Trans Health Conference 2025

Name: The Oslo International Trans Health Conference 2025
Start: 2025-10-09T08:30:00+02:00
End: 2025-10-10T16:00:00+02:00
Location: Håndverkeren Kurs- og Konferansesenter

Schedule

Thu, 09 Oct, 2025 at 08:30 am to Fri, 10 Oct, 2025 at 04:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Håndverkeren Kurs- og Konferansesenter | Oslo, OS

OSLO, 9th-10th OCTOBER 2025
🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈Join us in Oslo this fall for a groundbreaking Nordic conference on trans health and rights!
Researchers, clinicians, and community voices will come together to explore how past and present practices have shaped trans people's health and lived realities.
📅 Two full days of talks, panels, and discussion
🌐 Open to all – academics, professionals, activists, and allies
🧭 Learn more and register: hksoslo.no/conference2025
Let’s build better systems — together.

EARLY BIRD: Early bird tickets at reduced prices are available until the end of June 2025!
CONFERENCE DINNER on 9th October: Add-on ticket option

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Speakers:
STEPHEN ROSENTHAL
Professor of Pediatrics at University of California San Francisco (UCSF). Coauthor of the Endocrine Society’s Clinical Practice Guideline for transgender persons and co-author of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)’s Standards of Care, Version 8.
Title: "Advances & Challenges in the Care of Transgender/ Gender Diverse Youth: An Evolving Landscape"

ROSA ALMIRALL
PhD in Gynecology and Obstetrics and Master's degree in Human Sexuality | Practitioner and co-founder of Spanish health center Trànsit.
Title: "Trans-Affirmative Health Services: Navigating Today, Shaping Tomorrow"

AYDEN SCHEIM
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology in the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University (Philadelphia, USA)
Title Access to gender affirmation for trans and gender diverse people: Intersectional and global perspectives.

CAL HORTON
Dr Cal Horton is a trans and non-binary researcher from the UK. They focus on the rights of trans children, access to healthcare, inclusive education and supportive families.
Title: "Upholding trans children's rights against a backdrop of pathologisation and state violence"

SIMONA GIORDIANO
Professor of Bioethics at the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy (CSEP) at the University of Manchester. She has been working on gender medicine for over twenty years.
Title: "Ethical issues in paediatric gender medicine"

OLE-PETTER HAMNVIK
Clinician-educator at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) in Boston and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Member of the steering committee for the Global Education Institute of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) and of the Endocrine Society’s committee to update their gender-affirming hormone guidelines.
Title: "Guideline congruence in gender incongruence - providing high-quality gender-affirming hormone therapy to adults"

KETIL SLAGSTAD
Physician-historian and postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of the History of Medicine and Ethics in Medicine at Charité Berlin.
Title: "Trans History, Sterilization, and the Scandinavian Welfare State"

LENE LØVDAL
Human rights lawyer specialising in anti-discrimination issues, current manager at www.egalia.org as well as a member of the European Equality Law Network and European Disability Expertise
Title: "The limits of paternalism. Human rights perspectives on healthcare"

ISAK L. JACOBSEN
Ph.D.-Candidate at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, NTNU, with the doctoral project, “(Un)reproductive bodies? Transmasculinity and reproductive choices in Norway”
Title: "Between Medicalization and Lived Experience–Transmasculine Experiences of Seeking Reproductive Health Care"

ANNIKEN SØRLIE
Anniken Sørlie is an Associate Professor of Law at the Department of Social Work at Oslo Metropolitan University
Title: On law and sterilization practice

KRISTOPHER SALVESEN
Kindergarten pedagogist with a Master’s in Early Childhood Education and Care. He is likely the first trans man in Norway to have undergone forced sterilization before 2016 and later given birth.
Title: "From Panic to Proportion: Debunking Misleading Claims About Trans Referral Surges in Norway"

ALEKSANDER SØRLIE and OLE MARTIN MOEN
Alexander Sørlie is a nurse with many years experience working with gender and sexuality, both as a health care professional and through activism, peer support and patient advocacy while co-founding the Norwegian Patient Organization for Gender Incongruence.
Ole Martin Moen is a Professor of Ethics in the Health Sciences at Oslo Metropolitan University.
Title coming

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The conference is funded by The Norwegian Research Council, University of Oslo and The Oslo Municipality Public Health Centre for Gender and Sexuality (HKS Oslo).
Read more and register: www.hksoslo.no/conference2025

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REDUSERT PRIS UT JUNI: Early bird billetter tilgjengelig til og med 30. juni 2025
KONFERANSEMIDDAG: Alle billetter gir mulighet for å kjøpe tilgang til konferansemiddag som tilvalg. Middagen blir kl 18:00 den første kvelden, torsdag 9. oktober, og koster 800,- kroner.
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Konferansen er et samarbeid mellom Matematisk institutt ved Universitetet i Oslo og Helsestasjon for kjønn og seksualitet - HKS, i Oslo kommune, og støttes av Norges Forskningsråd.

Les mer og registrer deg: www.hksoslo.no/conference2025