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NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS AND CALL FOR RESOLUTION ITEMS
The Psychology of Sexualities Section hereby notifies that its Annual General Meeting will be held on Saturday 17th September, 2011, from 2pm to 5pm.
Nomination of Officers and Committee Members
Nominations are invited for the following positions:
Role Tenure
Chair 3 years
Honorary Secretary 3 years
Honorary Treasurer 3 years
Editor, Psychology of Sexualities Review 3 years
Ordinary Members (max. 13) 3 years
All Nominations require a Proposer and a Seconder who must be full members of Psychology of Sexualities Section. The consent of the nominee to accept Office, if elected, must be obtained in writing.
Resolution Items
Members may bring to the notice of the Honorary Secretary resolutions relevant to the Psychology of Sexualities for consideration by Psychology of Sexualities Committee. The request for a resolution item to be considered for inclusion on the AGM agenda is a formal mechanism for Members to bring matters to the attention of the committee and Membership. If the Honorary Secretary, or their nominated representative, acts on the resolution to the satisfaction of the Member, then it may be agreed with the Member that the item does not need to be included on the AGM agenda. If a resolution item is included on the AGM agenda, the Member may be requested to talk to the matter and a discussion could result at the AGM, together with a vote of those Members present to either support the resolution or not, if a postal ballot has not been undertaken prior to the meeting.
Please note that only Members with voting rights are able to raise resolution items. Further, it should be noted that only items included on the AGM agenda may be discussed; there is no ‘Any Other Business’ at this type of General Meeting.
The Annual General Meeting will be held at:
The British Psychological Society Offices
30 Tabernacle Street
London EC2A 4UE
Further instructions for putting forward Nominations and Resolution Items will be sent directly to all Members of the Psychology of Sexualities Section by post.
The Honorary Secretary, Dr Roshan das Nair, can be contacted at: Roshan.Nair@nottingham.ac.uk
Invited Speakers
The Section has invited two professional speakers to this year’s AGM. Ms Jemma Tosh and Ms Natacha Kennedy have agreed to deliver a talk to members of the Psychology of Sexualities Section.
Ms Jemma Tosh (PhD Candidate, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
Jemma Tosh is an assistant psychologist for the UK National Health Service (NHS) and a PhD student. She is also an assistant editor for the Psychology of Women Section Review (PoWSR) of the British Psychological Society (BPS), and co-ordinator of the Feminist Reading and Research Group (FRRG) at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
Challenging Queerphobic Practice: Protesting Ken Zucker’s ‘Treatment’ of Childhood Gender Identity Disorder
Childhood Gender Identity Disorder (GID) is a particularly controversial disorder, subsumed within complex debates of gender diversity and pathologization. These debates have been reinvigorated with the revised Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) due for publication in 2013. Ken Zucker’s appointment to the DSM Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders Work Group has attracted much criticism (e.g. The Petition Site, 2008). Zucker is infamous amongst LGBT communities due to his ‘treatment’ of Childhood GID, which has been compared to reparative therapy by some (Pickstone-Taylor, 2003) and described as abusive by others (Burke, 1996). While Zucker argues that the treatment’s purpose is to reduce social ostracism, many have questioned his insistence to change the individual rather than promote acceptance of gender diversity (e.g. Langer & Martin, 2004). This paper challenges this treatment approach, which lacks empirical support and uses the ‘prevention’ of transsexualism and homosexuality as a rationale for its implementation (Zucker, 2010; Zucker, 2006; Zucker & Bradley, 1995). This paper also describes and reflects on the actions of the ‘Protest Zucker’ group, who challenged Zucker at a UK Conference in December 2010
Ms Natacha Kennedy
Natacha has been trans for as long as she can remember. Having lived abroad for extended periods when young, including going to school in Norway, she speaks several European languages and is currently learning Japanese, her partner's mother tongue. Her first career was as a teacher and she taught in one of London's most notorious primary schools. She has since moved into higher education and currently lectures at Goldsmiths College. Her research interests include trans children and the sociology of online communication, both of which she is combining for her PhD. She is an activist working for trans human rights, a trustee for Camden LGBT Forum, and an occasional writer for The Guardian. In what little spare time she has left she is also interested in visual arts, photography and all things Japanese.
A community comes of age: Cyber infrastructure, identity and trans activism
Natacha Kennedy will be delivering a talk on ‘trans activism’ from a sociological perspective. Her talk will highlight the ways in which trans people have moved on from being the passive objects of discussion by professionals and the lay public. She will also outline how trans activism has developed over time, and how it continues to develop because of the affordances of Web 2.0 and online networking architecture. Ms Kennedy will also report on some of the demonstrations she has been actively involved in, such as the Stonewall demonstration in 2008, and will outline her proposed research that seeks to explore the ways in which young trans people use the social features of the internet to construct, negotiate and establish their identities.
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