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The Philadelphia Trans Wellness Conference (formerly Philadelphia Trans Health Conference) is an annual conference related to transgender health and wellness for transgender people, advocates, and healthcare providers. It is run by the Mazzoni Center and is the largest free trans-focused conference in the world. [1]
The conference emerged in response to the lack of healthcare resources and access for the transgender community in Philadelphia. An April 1999 survey conducted by the Philadelphia Transgender Health Action Coalition (which would later become the Mazzoni Center) exposed problems of transgender people being denied treatment for general healthcare problems, needing to educate providers on transgender healthcare issues, and a lack of understanding of transgender issues in HIV service providers specifically. [2]
PTHAC, the Philadelphia EMA HIV Transgender/Transsexual Caucus, and the Philadelphia AIDS Consortium partnered to plan and fund a 3-day conference to address these issues. In the Summer of 2001, the organizations formed a planning committee consisting of Charlene Arcila, June Dizon, Ben Singer, and Ron Powers. Due to a lack of funding, the conference was made a single day rather than three.
The first conference, entitled "Trans-Health for the New Millennium," took place on May 5, 2002. From 2006 until 2020, it was held at the Philadelphia Convention Center. [3]
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Mazzoni Center postponed the conference that was scheduled to occur that year between June 23-25. They chose to move the conference to a virtual format in 2021, [4] and again in 2022. [5]
On April 5, 2023, the Mazzoni Center announced on the conference's website that the team would be using 2023 as a planning and development year and that the conference would not be taking place that year. They hosted a community conversation in partnership with the Mayor's Office of LGBTQ Affairs on May 3 of that year. [6]
In March of 2024, the Mazzoni Center announced that the conference would be resuming in-person with a limited capacity of 1,000 participants. Unlike in previous years, the location was also changed to the Temple University campus. [7]
Southern Comfort Conference - another large transgender-related conference in the United States
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