Submit a proposal for PTWC’s General Conference here:

General Conference Proposal Submission Form

The mission of the Philadelphia Trans Wellness Conference (PTWC) is to provide lifesaving access to education, resources, and community for trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive people and to ensure the conversation surrounding trans health and wellness is led by the trans community. We believe that the trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive communities must be centered in the work we do at PTWC. We strongly encourage proposals from people with these identities along with those who are members of other marginalized communities.

The General Conference serves as a space for our community to come together and connect with, learn from, educate, and celebrate one another and is free to all attendees. This takes place through a multitude of different programming that can take shape through educational workshops, lectures, group discussions, and more. The content of the General Conference is selected by the Interdisciplinary Review Committee (IRC). The IRC is a volunteer committee comprised of trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive community members tasked with ensuring the content presented at the conference each year is affirming and empowering of the trans community and its many intersections. The committee also works to ensure that content presented at PTWC is not perpetuating transphobia, homophobia, racism, xenophobia, sexism, ableism, ageism, antisemitism, and islamophobia.

All presenters will be offered an honorarium for presenting at PTWC. While PTWC is welcome to cisgender allies, it intentionally is a space that centers and serves trans people, and we ask all cisgender attendees and potential presenters to honor that at all times during your participation in the conference. PTWC embraces a wide and intersectional view of what defines trans wellness as a system of overlapping and ever-expansive topics pertaining to all aspects of trans life. We encourage submissions focused on nearly all topics. Some common topics are physical and mental health, gender-affirming surgery, hormone replacement therapy, relationships, and more. These topics will always be core to PTWC. Proposal submissions should contain current best practices, up-to-date language, and relevant methodology.

We always want to ensure that the workshops being presented at PTWC truly serve and center the trans community as their first objective. We discourage proposals which enforce the gender binary, pathologize trans people, center cisgender experiences, utilize outdated content and language, or are designed to sell a product or book.

Proposal Deliverables

To ensure that your proposal receives a full and rigorous review by the IRC, please review the following list of materials and information required for consideration. Proposals submitted without these completed materials will not be accepted by the IRC.

1. Presenter Contact and Voluntary Disclosure of Demographic Information: Please include the following information for each person who you foresee presenting the workshop, including yourself with no more than two total presenters: Name, pronouns, address, email address, phone number, organization and professional title (if applicable), résumé, brief biography, and any affiliated website or social media account (if applicable). PTWC also encourages all presenters to voluntarily disclose their demographic information if they feel comfortable doing so, including each presenter's age, gender identity, sexual orientation, and race. This information will not be shared with any third parties and will not be used to determine workshop selection.
2. Why do you want to present at PTWC? An open-ended question for you to provide any other information that you wish, such as what makes you a good fit to present at PTWC? Have you presented at PTWC in the past?
3. Workshop Title
4. Description: Please provide a summary to give the committee a strong sense of the workshop’s content. This description may be used for promotional materials and program books.
5. Outline: Please provide a breakdown of how the time will be used throughout the workshop that provides as much information about the presentation flow and audience experience as possible. We recommend outlining the workshop in increments of 10-15 minutes and allotting time for questions at the end of the workshop. All General Conference workshops will occur in time slots lasting one hour and fifteen minutes.
6. Three Learning Objectives: What do you want attendees to learn or accomplish during this workshop?
7. Target Audience: Who is this for? Does your proposed workshop reference a professional specialization or area of practice? The more specific you can be, the easier it is for the selection committee to balance the conference’s overall content. If this workshop is intended to be restricted to attendees who share a particular identity or experience, please indicate it here.
8. Do you prefer to lead your workshop in person, virtually, or do you not have a preference?
9. Sample Content (Optional): This could be slides, notes, videos, references, or something small that can be consumed in under ten minutes to give the selection committee a clear sense of your workshop's content. Sample content is not required and does not need to be extensive.

Submit a proposal for PTWC’s General Conference here:

General Conference Proposal Submission Form

The deadline to submit a proposal is Saturday, June 1, 2024. Selected presenters will be notified in July.