Stonewall Democrats of Pinellas County is sponsoring a “Transgender Issues 101†panel discussion tonight – Monday, April 30 — at the Largo Public Library, in Jenkins Room B, 120 Central Park Drive, Largo, Florida, from 7-8:30 pm. Creative Loafing editor David Warner will moderate; his interview with the transgender former city manager of Largo, Steve Stanton, ran on CL’s cover Mar. 7.
The forum is designed to provide a better understanding of transgender issues. Panelists include Kathleen Farrell, Ph.D., a gender therapist who has served the trans community in the Tampa Bay area since 1985; Garth R. Goodman, Esq., a St. Petersburg-based lawyer whose practice concentrates on family and domestic relations; Daniel Greenwald, MD, founder of Bayshore Plastic Surgery; Rev. Abhi Janamanchi, senior minister of the Unitarian Universalists of Clearwater; and Ricki Liff, a transgender woman who, as outreach supervisor within the COPE program at WestCare, works on behalf of the transgender community.
This article appears in Apr 25 – May 1, 2007.