Keynote, Syracuse, NY 8/21/09

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Keynote, Syracuse, NY 8/21/09
August 22, 2009

Keynote Address
"LGBT Stories: Reflections and Voices from Within"
Mona Rae Mason

http://monaraemason.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/46/

Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome. My name is Mona Rae Mason, and just for the record, I am not gender dysphoric, I am gender euphoric.

From 2004 through 2009, I had the great pleasure and privilege of working on The Transgender Project in NYC. Conducted by National Development and Research Institutes, the study known as The New York Transgender Project was funded by the NIH from an R-01 grant application titled 'HIV/STI's in a High Risk Urban Population: Male to Female Transgender'. Dr. Larry Nuttbrock was the principal investigator, with Drs.' Walter Bocktking, Andrew Rosenblum, and Sel Hawang as co-investigators. Jeffrey Becker, Monica Macri, and I were the Research Associates on the project.