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The Open Space

Welcome to all cisgender (nontrans) partners of transmasculine (FtM, genderqueer, questioning) people. This is a place where first-timers and people who have experienced SCC can gather, share your stories, and support each other. For those of you who have been to EY before, it's a chance to reunite and deepen friendships and make new friends.

Dr. Virginia Erhardt is delighted that she will be back with us this year! She has shared so much with so many of us, and she looks forward to reconnecting with us. Rather than presenting seminars, Virginia will "take the pulse" of the group, by starting out with introductions so that it will become obvious how participants are similar and how you are different, and what topics YOU feel a need to discuss. Having worked with transpeople and their partners for 17 years, she has a rich background that allows her to facilitate discussions in a way that meets the needs of a a majority of participants.

When: Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 10 am until noon

Where: Suite TBA

Dr. Virginia Erhardt has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Georgia State University. She has been a gender specialist in private practice for 17 years. She has offered presentations and facilitated seminars internationally on topics related to transgender, partners of transpeople, and intersex conditions. She has been published in Transgender Tapestry magazine and the Transgender Community News and was a columnist for Southern Voice newspaper. Virginia is the author of Head Over Heels: Wives Who Stay with Cross-Dressers and Transsexuals. She works with clients from all over the country via phone and Skype from an idyllic island in the Pacific Northwest.