Conference Papers & Invited Lectures

  1. "African-American and Latino Transgender Youth." American Psychiatric Association annual meeting, Washington, DC (May 8, 2008)
  2. "Psychological Issues in Intersex Conditions." Endocrinology Clinical Conference, UCLA--Harbor Hospital (Jan. 16, 2008).
  3. "Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual South Asian Americans." Indian Psychiatric Association annual meeting. San Diego (May 20, 2007)
  4. "Molecular Sex." Scientia Sexualis Colloquium, University of California, Santa Cruz (May 11, 2007)
  5. "Transgenderism and Sexuality." Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Yale University, New Haven (March 29, 2007)
  6. "Gay Latino Adolescent Sexuality." American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry annual meeting, Santa Monica, CA (March 8, 2007).
  7. "Gay Latino Teens Negotiating Sexuality, Culture, and Poverty." American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry & Asociacion Mexicana de Psiquiatria Intantil annual meeting. San Diego, CA (October 27, 2006)
  8. Panel chair: Altérité, ethnicité & masculinités. Histoire des masculinitiés en France, 1789-1945. Univerity of Paris (September 22, 2006)
  9. "Latino Teen Transgenders."Antioch University Los Angeles (February 15, 2006)
  10. "Ethnicity, Sexuality and Transgenderism." Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Yale University, New Haven (Nov. 17, 2005).
  11. "From Hermaphrodites to SOX9: The molecular deconstruction of sex." Larry Kramer Initiative for Gay and Lesbian Studies, Yale University, New Haven (Nov. 16, 2005).
  12. "Studs, Stems and Jotos: Latino Teen Transgenders." American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry annual meeting, Toronto, Canada (Oct. 22, 2005).
  13. "From Hermaphrodites to SOX9: The molecular deconstruction of sex." Department of History, University of Aukland, New Zealand (August 11, 2005).
  14. "Sex & Heredity at the Fins-de-siècle," Keynote address, "Sexuality in the Fin-de-siècle: The Makings of a Central Problem" Conference, Centre for the History of European Discourses, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia (August 7, 2005)
  15. "Studs, Stems and Jotos: Adolescent Latino Gender and Sexuality in the 'hood." National Center of HIV Social Research, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (Aug. 4, 2005)
  16. "Intersexes and the Future of Gender." Department of Gender Studies, University of Sydney, Australia (Aug. 4, 2005).
  17. "From Hermaphrodites to SOX9: The molecular deconstruction of sex." Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Sydney, Australia (August 1, 2005)
  18. "Studs, Stems and Jotos: Adolescent Latino Sexuality." Lesbian and gay Psychotherapist Association of Los Angeles conference, Los Angeles, CA (June 18, 2005)
  19. "Studs, Stems, and Jotos: Latino Teen Transgenders." American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia (May 23, 2005)
  20. Career Panel, "Practicing Theory, Theorizing Practice: Physician Scholars in the Social Sciences and Humanities" Conference, University of California, San Francisco (May 14, 2005)
  21. "Regulation," Program in Women’s Studies, University of California, Irvine (January 27, 2005)
  22. "Psychiatry Without Humans," Renovating the Liberal Education panel, "The Liberal Education: Dead or Alive?" Dartmouth College, NH (Nov. 5-7, 2004) www.dartmouth.edu/~lhc/index.html
  23. "From Hermaphrodites to SOX9: The molecular deconstruction of sex." Individual Interdisciplinary Studies Program and the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (January 19, 2004)
  24. "Intersex Conditions." Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles (November 17, 2003)
  25. "The Boy Without a Penis: Ethical Issues in the Treatment of Intersex Infants." Los Angeles County Bar Bioethics Committee (October 8, 2003)
  26. "Intersex Conditions: Controversies and New Approaches to Treatment." American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA (May 21, 2003)
  27. "Sexuality and Gender Identity in Latino Adolescents." Grand Rounds, Edelman Westside Mental Health Center, Los Angeles (May 8, 2003)
  28. "Parenting Skills for the Boy with a Different Body Image." Hypospadias and Epispadias Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (April 25, 2003)
  29. "Male Body Image and Coping Strategies with a Different Penis." Hypospadias and Epispadias Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (April 25, 2003)
  30. "Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with an Aphallic Child: Intersex Gender Identity and Early Sex Reassignment." American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, San Francisco, CA (Oct. 26, 2002)
  31. "Intersexes: The Molecular Deconstruction of Sex." Feminist Research Seminar, Center for the Study of Women, UCLA (Oct. 15, 2002).
  32. "Intersex and Queer Theory." Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex Health Summit, Boulder, CO (August 22, 2002)
  33. Plenary speaker. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex Health Summit, Boulder, CO (August 22, 2002)
  34. "Ethnicity and Transgenderism." Issue Workshop: Transgender Care: New Perspectives. American Psychiatric Association, Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA (May 20, 2002)
  35. "Negotiating Identity in the Corporate World." Anderson School of Business, UCLA (May 14, 2002).
  36. "Events and Emergences in the Study of Sexual Culture: Intersexes." Studying Sexual Culture Conference. Center for the Study of Sexual Culture. UC Berkeley (Mar. 9, 2002)
  37. "The Biology of Gender and the Construction of Sex?" "Who Owns Gender?" Conference. Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, New York University (Feb. 7, 2002)
  38. "Psychotherapy in a Case of Intersexuality." UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Grand Rounds (Dec. 12, 2001)
  39. "History and Current Controversies in the Treatment of Individuals with Ambiguous Genitalia: The Role of Child Psychiatrists." American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Annual Meeting, Honolulu (Oct. 26, 2001).
  40. "Homosexuals, Transsexuals, and Intersexuals: Questions of Filiation and Origins." Center for the Study of Sexual Culture. UC Berkeley (Sept. 20, 2001).
  41. "Adolescent Transgenderism." Edelman Westside Mental Health Center, Children's System of Care. Los Angeles (Aug. 9, 2001).
  42. "Bridging Genders: Latina Trans-Sex-Works." Conference on Women and signs. The (Trans)Figures of Difference. International Center for Semiotic and Linguistic Studies of the University of Urbino, Italy (July 12-14, 2001).
  43. "The Boy With Labia: Intersexes and Iatrogenic Transsexualism." Southern California Lambda Medical Association, Los Angeles (April 24, 2001).
  44. "Ethnicity and Transgender Therapy." Transgender Topics in Therapy: An Advanced Panel. 7th Annual Lesbian and Gay Psychotherapy Association (LAGPA) Conference, Los Angeles (June 23, 2001).
  45. "The Boy With Labia: Intersexes and Iatrogenic Transsexualism." Fund for Lesbian and Gay Studies, Yale University (April 17, 2001).
  46. "From Hermaphroditism to Intersexuality: The History and Politics of Gender Ambiguity." Program in History of Medicine and Science, Yale University (April 17, 2001).
  47. "Some Cultural Consequences of the Anatomical Distinction Between the Genders." Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley (April 9, 2001).
  48. "Sex Work/Gender Work: Building Trans-Gender Bridges." Sex, Race and Globalization Seminiar Series. Lesbian, Bisexual, and Gay Studies. Unversity of Arizona, Tucson (Feb. 23, 2001).
  49. "Negotiating Identity in the Corporate World." Anderson School of Business, UCLA (Jan. 30, 2001).
  50. "Lacan pute travestie: Commentaire sur une entrevue de Lacan avec un patient transsexuel." Journée/Rencontre avec l’auteur. Ecole Lacanienne de Psychoanalyse, Paris (October 21, 2000).
  51. "Historicité des théories, variations des pratiques cliniques." Journée/Rencontre avec l’auteur. Ecole Lacanienne de Psychoanalyse, Paris (October 21, 2000).
  52. "Transgender Negotiations of Sex and Ethnicity." Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture Conference. Paris (October 19, 2000)
  53. "Teaching Gay and Lesbian Issues in Psychiatry." Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds, San Francisco General Hospital (August 17, 2000)
  54. "Teaching the Psychiatric History of Homosexuality." Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Residents: Challenges in Training panel. American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting. Chicago (May 16, 2000)
  55. "Psychotherapy with a Transgendered Patient." American Psychoanalytic Association Annual Meeting. Chicago (May 13, 2000)
  56. "Gender Identity Disorder in Adolescence." Department of Family Medicine, UCLA (March 27, 2000)
  57. "Psychotherapy with Transgendered Clients." In-service training, Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center (February 5, 2000)
  58. "Transgenderism: Historical, Cultural, and Mental Health Issues." University of Southern California, Couseling Center (January 25, 2000)
  59. "Mental Health Issues in Transgender Patients." Grand Rounds, Edelman Mental Health Center, Los Angeles (December 2, 1999)
  60. "Qué Joto Bonita! Transgender Negotiations of Sex and Ethnicity." Cultural Psychiatry Seminar, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute (November 10, 1999)
  61. "Gender Identity Disorder: Psychiatric Diagnosis, Medical Diagnosis, No Diagnosis?" Forward Motion: Celebrating Cultures, Advocacy and Female-to-Male Lives. Burbank, CA (October 9, 1999)
  62. "The Medical Construction of Sexual Inversion in Nineteenth-Century France." Romano Lecture, State University Of New York, Binghamton (March 26, 1999)
  63. "Trangenderism," Yale University, History of Medicine Program (March 23, 1999)
  64. "Sex In the Body." Controversies in Feminist Theory series: Feminist Theory Meets Queer Theory. Center for the Study of Women, UCLA (January 20, 1999).
  65. "Phallic Performance: Phalloplasty and the Techniques of Sex." University of California, San Francisco (August 18, 2000)
  66. "Phallic Performance: Phalloplasty and the Techniques of Sex." The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (October 22, 1999)
  67. "Phallic Performance: Phalloplasty and the Techniques of Sex." Yale University, Fund for Lesbian and Gay Studies (March 23, 1999)
  68. "Phallic Performance: Phalloplasty and the Techniques of Sex." University of California Humanities Research Institute (November 11, 1998)
  69. "Phallic Performance: Phalloplasty and the Techniques of Sex." BRANDON Project panel, Guggenheim Museum, New York (September 18, 1998)
  70. "The Experience of Coming Out In Psychiatry." Workshop panelist. American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, Toronto (June 3, 1998)
  71. "Case report and historical analysis of a person who is changing from female to gay male." Southern California Psychiatric Society, Los Angeles (January 25, 1998)
  72. "Scientists Do It on a Lab Bench." Queering the Sciences Symposium, Society for Lesbian and Gay Philosophy, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Berkeley (March 1997)
  73. "Why's a Good She-Male So Hard to Find? The Blossoming of Transsensuality." Southern California Lambda Medical Association and the Lesbian and Gay Psychotherapy Association, Los Angeles (September 19, 1999)
  74. "Why's a Good She-Male So Hard to Find? The Blossoming of Transsensuality." History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Workshop. University of Chicago (May 1997)
  75. "Why's a Good She-Male So Hard to Find? The Blossoming of Transsensuality." Sex and Scholarship Symposium, University of Arizona (April 13, 1997)
  76. "Why's a Good She-Male So Hard to Find? The Blossoming of Transsensuality." History and Sociology of Science Workshop, University of Pennsylvania (January 1997)
  77. "Queer Genetic Pride."Nature Versus Nurture: The Changing Implications of the Biological Approach to Homosexuality Symposium, Goethe House, N.Y.C. (May 20, 1997)
  78. "Queer Genetic Pride." Gay Academic Union, Philadelphia (October 1996)
  79. Panelist, "Teaching Humanities in Medical School." West Coast Network Meeting for Faculty in the History of Health Sciences, Univesity of California, San Francisco (February 1996).
  80. "The Constructed Penis—Surgical Sexuality or Gender Accessory?" Gendered/Sexed Bodies Colloquium, University of California Humanites Research Institute (April 1996).
  81. "The Constructed Penis—Surgical Sexuality or Gender Accessory?" Lesbian, Bisexual, and Gay Pride Month, Brown University (March 1996)
  82. "The Constructed Penis—Surgical Sexuality or Gender Accessory?" Science, Technology, and Society Program, M.I.T. (March 1996)
  83. "The Constructed Penis—Surgical Sexuality or Gender Accessory?" Center for Cultural Studies of Science Technology and Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles (December 1995)
  84. "Homosexual Bio-Histories: Genetic Nostalgias and the Quest for Paternity." Center for the Study of Women, University of California, Los Angeles (November 1995).
  85. "Rationalizing Monstrous Bodies: The Monarchical Science of Louis XIV." Department of History, Loyola University, Chicago (February 1995).
  86. "Pointy Penises, Fashion Crimes, and Hysterical Mollies: The Pederasts’ Inversions." American Historical Association Conference, Chicago (January 1995).
  87. "Pointy Penises, Fashion Crimes, and Hysterical Mollies: The Pederasts’ Inversions." Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, City University of New York (November 1994)
  88. "InQueerying the Future of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Studies" plenary session panelist. Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Studies Conference, University of Iowa (November 1994).
  89. "Trans [Homo] Sexuality? Double Inversion, Psychiatric Confusion and Hetero-Hegemony." "Gay/Lesbian/Queer: Knowledges and Identities for the 90s" Conference, University of California, San Diego (January 1995).
  90. "Trans [Homo] Sexuality? Double Inversion, Psychiatric Confusion and Hetero-Hegemony." Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Studies Conference, University of Iowa (November 1994)
  91. "Genital Anomalies of the Insane and their Association with Degeneration and Criminality, or CRIMINAL PENISES." Harvard M.D.-Ph.D. Retreat, Wood's Hole Marine Biological Laboratory (October 1993).
  92. "The Nineteenth-Century Medicalization of Sexuality." Bates College (April 1993).
  93. "Inversion’s Histories | History’s Inversions: Novelizing Fin-de-Siècle Homosexuality."Institute for the Liberal Arts, Emory University (February 1996).
  94. "Inversion’s Histories | History’s Inversions: Novelizing Fin-de-Siècle Homosexuality." Yale University (February 1996)
  95. "Inversion’s Histories | History’s Inversions: Novelizing Fin-de-Siècle Homosexuality."History of Science Society Conference, New Orleans (October 1994)
  96. "Inversion’s Histories | History’s Inversions: Novelizing Fin-de-Siècle Homosexuality." Joint Atlantic Seminar in the History of Biology and Medicine, University of Toronto (March 1993)
  97. "Histories Invert His Stories." Department of the History of Science, Harvard University (March 1993).
  98. "Vicious Sodomites, Hysterical Mollies and Talented Inverts." Columbia University, Reid Hall, Paris, France (February 1993).
  99. "Marketing Masturbation: Narcissism, Scopophilia and the Spectacle of Solitary Pleasure." BGALD Week, Harvard College (April 1992).
  100. "Vive l’indifférence! The French Erasure of Sexual Politics." Sager Gay and Lesbian Studies Conference, Swarthmore College (March 1992).
  101. CUM : Sexual Liberalism and Compulsory Heterosexuality." Twentieth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania (March 1992).
  102. "Imagining Masturbation: Narcissism, Scopophilia and the Spectacle of Solitary Pleasure." Bates College (March 1992).
  103. "Phantastical Pollutions: The Public Threat of Private Vice in France, 1760-1880." Lesbian and Gay Studies Conference, Rutgers & Princeton Universities (November 1991).
  104. "Graveyards, Restaurants and the Assemblée: Corrupt Bodies and Perverse Politics, Paris 1849." Wesleyan University (December 1991)
  105. "Graveyards, Restaurants and the Assemblée: Corrupt Bodies and Perverse Politics, Paris 1849." Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, University of New Orleans (October 1991)
  106. "Method and Madness, or, What is to be done with/in history?" Department of the History of Science, Harvard University (October 1991).
  107. "Save Sex!" Panel organizer and discussant. BGALD Week, Harvard College (April 1991).
  108. "Que(e)rying Medicine: Academics and Activists Examine Aids, Medicine, and Sexuality." Queering/Querying the Academy Conference, University of California, Santa Cruz (February 1991).
  109. "The Delirious Supplement, or Erotomania and Social Pathology." Science in Society Program, Wesleyan University (February 1991).
  110. "Composing a Language Against Nature: Degenerate Nerves and Metonymic Sexualities." History of Psychology Conference, University of New Hampshire (November 1990).
  111. "Erotic Osphresiology, or Nasal Perversity and Sexual Atavism." Anthropology Department, Harvard University (October 1990).
  112. "Le parfum pervers de la dégénéréscence." Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, University of Oklahoma (October, 1990).
  113. "The Nasal Origins of ‘Perverse’ Sexuality." Bates College (February 1990).
  114. "The Place of ‘Non’fictions in Nineteenth-Century Biomedicine." History of Science Department, Harvard University (November 1989).
  115. "Erotic Osphresiology, or the Nasal Origins of ‘Perverse’ Sexuality." The New School for Social Research (April 1990).
  116. "Erotic Osphresiology, or the Nasal Origins of ‘Perverse’ Sexuality." Lesbian and Gay Studies Conference, Yale University (October 1989),
  117. "The Nineteenth-Century Medical Politics of Self-Defilement and Seminal Economy." Gay and Lesbian Studies Conference, Brown University (September 1989).
  118. "The Nineteenth-Century Medical Politics of Self-Defilement and Seminal Economy." Nationalisms and Sexualities Conference, Center for Cultural and Literary Studies, Harvard University (June 1989),
  119. "The Masturbatory Hypothesis of the Aetiology of ‘Sexual Inversion’." Lesbian and Gay Studies Conference, Yale University (October 1988).