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DIAGNOSING DIFFERENCE

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Melbourne Queer Film Festival

DIAGNOSING DIFFERENCE
Dir: Annalise Ophelian, USA, 2009, video, 64min
Genre: Documentary
Identity: Trans

How does it feel to have your gender identity included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders? Diagnosing Difference features interviews with thirteen transgender and genderqueer scholars, artists and activists as they explore the impact and implications of the Gender Identity Disorder (GID) on their lives and communities.

Historically, non-trans medical and mental health care professionals have positioned themselves as the ‘experts’ on transgender experience, creating standards, guidelines and diagnoses that inform legal policies and mediate every aspect of life. Diagnosing Difference shifts the focus to explore the many complexities of the diagnosis from the perspectives of those it affects most directly and personally, including access to medical care, legal ramifications, social stigma, implications for psychotherapeutic care, treatment trauma, and differences in experience based on factors like race, class, gender orientation and generation.

"This film is a call to all mental health providers to not only educate themselves but to become activists for transgender patient rights within their professional communities.” - Dr Sara Kimmel, Staff Psychologist, Harvard University Mental Health Services

Gender Panel

Immediately following the session, in the cinema. Presented by the {also} Foundation.

Panelists:

Sally Goldner has been out of the gender closet for over thirteen years and an active participant in Melbourne’s queer community for the last ten. This includes ongoing involvement with TransGender Victoria, 3CR’s ‘Out of the Pan', VGLRL, and Zoe Belle Gender Centre. Sally is an accountant specialising in the not-for-profit sector.

Jason Rostant has worked in a range of GLBTIQ roles including in Tasmania with the Gay and Lesbian Rights Group where he was among those who challenged the State’s anti-gay laws by handing himself over to police, and later established the coming out/suicide prevention service Working It Out; in NSW as a youth worker; in WA as sexuality adviser to Senator Brian Greig; and in Victoria with Gay and Lesbian Switchboard, as Co-Convenor of the 1st Asia Pacific Outgames human rights conference, and now as President of the {also} Foundation. Jason currently manages community education at the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission.

Dr Fintan B Harte is a Consultant Psychiatrist and director of Addiction Services at the Albert Road Clinic. He also has a special interest in sexuality and gender issues. He was the first psychiatrist appointed in Victoria to HIV services at Fairfield Hospital and subsequently at the Alfred Hospital. Dr Harte was appointed Head of Unit, Gender Dysphoria Clinic, Melbourne in July 2009. He is the current Vice-President of the Australian and New Zealand Professional Association for Transgender Health (ANZPATH). Dr Harte is also a member of the Mental Health Review Board and a Clinical Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne.



Presented by the ALSO Foundation

www.diagnosingdifference.com/

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