2024 Conference
Sessions aimed at professionals taught healthcare providers and educators how to best serve gender expansive youth, containing didactic components and offering continuing education credits for medical and behavioral health providers.
Programming for families and keiki focused on community building and how to support gender diverse keiki in Hawai‘i.
We can’t wait to see you next year!
Mahalo to everyone for a fantastic Gender Journeys Day event! On June 22, 2024 we held Hawai‘i’s first-ever daylong conference on gender-affirming care for keiki that brought together healthcare providers, educators, and families.
Conference Overview
The day opened with an oli followed by remarks by Kumu Hina and an introductory session on gender. Healthcare providers, educators, and families split into separate sessions with content specific to their track at the conference.
Sessions covered topics such as creating safe and inclusive spaces, addressing implicit biases about gender, and how to talk about gender with extended family.
At the end of the day, all three tracks came back together for a final session with the entire group, followed by a shave ice social.
Affirmation mural created by keiki and ‘ōpio attendes at the 2024 Gender Journeys Day conference.
2024 Agenda
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Educators
8:00-8:30am – Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:30-9:50am – Gender Identity for Keiki in Hawai‘i & Why Language Matters
9:50-10am – Break
10-10:45am – Haumāna Lived Experiences
10:45-11:15am – Gender Matters
11:15am-12pm – Gender in Schools: Rules and Policies
12-12:45pm – Lunch
12:45-1:15pm – Creating Safe and Inclusive Spaces
1:15-2pm – What Would You Do?
2-2:10pm – Break
2:10-3pm – Aloha Over Everything
3pm – Shave Ice Social
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Healthcare Providers
8:00-8:30am – Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:30-9:50am – Gender Identity for Keiki in Hawai‘i & Why Language Matters
9:50-10am – Break
10-10:45am – Biases as Providers and Trauma-Informed Care
10:45-11:15am – Why is Care Important? Local Data on Gender
11:15am-12pm – How Do you Create a Welcoming Space?
12-12:45pm – Lunch
12:45-1:15pm – Provider Holistic Actions: How to Advocate & Affirm
1:15-2pm – How Healthcare Providers Can Support Hawai‘i’s Gender-Diverse Youth
2-2:10pm – Break
2:10-3pm – Aloha Over Everything
3pm – Shave Ice Social
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Families
8:00-8:30am – Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:30-9:50am – Gender Identity for Keiki in Hawai‘i & Why Language Matters
9:50-10am – Break
10-10:45am – Why Is This Happening? (Caregiver only*)
10:45-11:30am – Learning from Providers: How You Can Help (Caregiver only*)
11:30am-12pm – Our Reason & Our Transition (Caregiver only*)
12-12:45pm – Lunch
12:45-1:15pm – Gender Matters
1:15-2pm – To Love Without Apology
2-2:10pm – Break
2:10-3pm – Aloha Over Everything
3pm – Shave Ice Social
