THE OSLO TRANS HEALTH CONFERENCE 9.-10. OKTOBER 2025
For all trans, non-binary and gender diverse people, professionals, family and allies
Conference programme
DAY 1
8:30-9:00 Opening doors and registration
9:00-9:15 Official opening
SESSION 1
9:15-10:00 Ayden Scheim
Access to gender affirmation for trans and gender diverse people: Intersectional and global perspectives
10:00-10:45 Ketil Slagstad
Trans History, Sterilization, and the Scandinavian Welfare State
10:45-11:00 Coffee break
SESSION 2
11:00-11:45 Lene Løvdal
The limits of paternalism. Human rights perspectives on healthcare.
11:45-12:30 Cal Horton
Upholding trans children's rights against a backdrop of pathologisation and state violence
12:30-13:30 Lunch
SESSION 3
13:30-14:15 Isak L. Jacobsen
Between Medicalization and Lived Experience – Transmasculine Experiences of Seeking Reproductive Health Care (link)
14:15-15:00 Anniken Sørlie
Title coming (law and sterilization practice)
15:00-15:30 Panel discussion
Trans Health and Rights: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
EVENING SOCIAL EVENT
18:00 Conference dinner
Dinner is open to buy as an add-on for all participants as part of the registratin for the conference.
DAY 2
9:00 - 9:15 Opening doors
SESSION 4
9:15-10:00 Rosa Almirall
Trans-Affirmative Health Services: Navigating Today, Shaping Tomorrow
10:00-10:45 Stephen Rosenthal
Advances & Challenges in the Care of Transgender/ Gender Diverse Youth: An Evolving Landscape
10:45-11:00 Coffee break
SESSION 5
11:00-11:45 Simona Giordano
Ethical issues in paediatric gender medicine
11:45-12:30 Kristopher Salvesen
From Panic to Proportion: Debunking Misleading Claims About Trans Referral Surges in Norway (link)
12:30-13:30 Lunch
SESSION 6
13:30-14:15 Ole-Petter Hamnvik
Guideline congruence in gender incongruence - providing high-quality gender-affirming hormone therapy to adults
14:15-15:00 Aleksander Sørlie and Ole Martin Moen
Moral courage in health care
15:00-15:30 Panel discussion
From Guidelines to Lived Realities: Implementing Trans-Affirming Care
15:30-15:45 Closing remarks
Funding
This conference is funded by the Research Council of Norway (project number: 359379), the University of Oslo and Oslo Municipality Public Health Centre for Gender and Sexuality (HKS)
