The JBI GRADE workshop days will take place on 10 and 11 July 2025 at the Helmut Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg (Chair: Prof. Gerhard Schreiber). The event is organised by the JBI Centre for Gender Health Care.
An interdisciplinary team of international experts will analyse and evaluate existing discourse on the transition of transgender children and adolescents. The aim is to develop ethics-based, evidence-informed guidelines to support trans children and adolescents during this process. The GRADE Working Group’s methodological tools will be used for this purpose.
A new feature of the guidelines for this population group is the definition of affirmative targets (‘outcomes’) relating to positive gender existential development. These include:
The JBI GRADE workshop days in 2025 will deepen and ground these outcomes theoretically within the framework of the JBI EBHC (Evidence-Based Health Care) model. Due to its consistent focus on the perspective of healthcare consumers, the model is particularly well suited to promoting gender-sensitive healthcare.
The event is being held in collaboration with two associations: Beratung für Geschlechtliche Vielfalt e.V. (BGV e.V.) and the Association für Evidence based Gender Health (AEBGH)
| Start | Workshop no. | Topic | Abstract | Management |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08:30 | Welcome/introduction | Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schreiber | ||
| 09:00 | 1 | ELKE – The new concept of trans Health Care | Abstract: ELKE as a framework for stabilizing trans-affirmative quality of life | Dr. Dr. Claudia Haupt |
| 11:00 | Break | |||
| 11:30 | 2 | Autism is not a deficit. For a healthy understanding of ASPI happiness | Abstract: Resource-oriented autism approach to stabilize trans-affirmative quality of life | Martin Zgraggen |
| 13:30 | Lunch | |||
| 14:30 | 3 | “You can’t know that yet!” – trans children in The shadow of adultism | Abstract: Agency instead of heteronomy – a critical-psychological approach to empowering trans children | Alexia Kutschmar, Mareike Proske |
| 16:30 | Break | |||
| 17:00 | 4 | Levinas in social work | Abstract: Levinasian relational ethics as the foundation of trans-affirmative social work | Elena Letting |
| 19:00 | Discussion, followed by dinner | |||
| Start | Workshop no. | Topic | Abstract | Management |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08:00 | 5 | Because they know what they are doing. Luna may be named after the moon, but her eyes see through clouds. | Abstract: Parent-free interaction and agency as the basis for trans-affirmative development | Hannah Stock |
| 10:00 | Break | |||
| 10:30 | 6 | The new trauma therapies. A turning point for trans health Care? | Abstract: Trauma-sensitive approach to strengthening trans children – beyond pathologizing treatment | Dr. Dr. Claudia Haupt |
| 12:30 | Lunch break | |||
| 13:30 | 7 | Happiness, unimaginable | Abstract: Critical understanding of happiness as protection against normative appropriation | Corinna Wintzer |
| 15:30 | Break | |||
| 16:00 | 8 | Queer Handicap | Abstract: QueerHandicap: Denormalizing disability, expanding scope for action | Helga Denu |
| 18:00 | Conclusion Discussion | Kathrin Bruder | ||
| 19:00 | Closing-up/Farewell | Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schreiber | ||