#MTHF25

Kevin Standlee

@kevinstandlee.bsky.social

11 months ago

Woman in a red dress standing in front of a lectern draped with the trans pride flag. Taken at the Moving Trans History Forward 2025 conference at the University of Victoria.

Trans woman in a dark blue dress with navy blue tights, and black low-heeled Mary Jane style shoes. A row of gender-neutral toilets and a common washing up area I’d behind her.

A smiling woman with red-brown hair and wearing a gold necklace and glasses with rose gold frames standing on a hotel balcony with the city of Victoria, British Columbia visible behind her.

A smiling woman wearing a multi color geometrical designed top with pink, white, gray, and black colors standing in front of a lectern draped with the Trans pride flag 🏳️‍⚧️ at the conclusion of the Moving Trans History Forward 2025 conference at the University of Victoria, British Columbia.

Am traveling internationally today and thus am only ambiguous looking, but spent the last four days being visible at #MTHF25

Kevin Standlee

@kevinstandlee.bsky.social

11 months ago

Kayla participated in what was styled as a Transgender Weekend of Visibility at #MTHF25 in Victoria, but inasmuch as I’m traveling back to the USA today on my passport, I have to be slightly more subtle in my #TDOV observance and not make the US border people at YVR unhappy.

Kevin Standlee

@kevinstandlee.bsky.social

11 months ago

We have made it to the Swartz Bay ferry terminal. The 4 PM ferry shown in Maps does not exist. Had we known that, we could have hung around at #MTHF25 for another hour and kept socializing. No wonder the route 70 bus to the ferry was not busy.

Kevin Standlee

@kevinstandlee.bsky.social

11 months ago

It seems prudent for me to travel in boy mode back to Vancouver from #MTHF25 but we don’t have to be happy about it.

Kevin Standlee

@kevinstandlee.bsky.social

11 months ago

@cherylmorgan.bsky.social and I at the lectern of #MTHF25 shortly after closing. My top only evokes the trans pride flag, rather than being a close match.

Cheryl Morgan

@cherylmorgan.bsky.social

11 months ago

Sadly it is time to head for the ferry to Vancouver. So long, Victoria, see you in two years’ time. #MTHF25

Kevin Standlee

@kevinstandlee.bsky.social

11 months ago

And speaking of standing ovations, Dr. Aaron DeVore, who has announced his intention to step down as the Chair in Transgender Studies in the next year or so, got a standing ovation and flowers. #MTHF25

Kevin Standlee

@kevinstandlee.bsky.social

11 months ago

Standing ovation for the Trans Youth panel at #MTHF25

Kevin Standlee

@kevinstandlee.bsky.social

11 months ago

Just to show that there actually are lots of people attending #MTHF25 not even including the many people attending online. Most of my pictures have been from the front of the rooms where folks are reluctant to sit.

Cheryl Morgan

@cherylmorgan.bsky.social

11 months ago

There were 300 trans kids who applied to be on this panel. That’s hugely impressive. Well done, Canada. #MTHF25 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️

Kevin Standlee

@kevinstandlee.bsky.social

11 months ago

A lovely group of young trans people (ages 14-18) at #MTHF25 — so encouraging and exciting to see these happy people living their best lives.

Kevin Standlee

@kevinstandlee.bsky.social

11 months ago

Final panel of #MTHF25 is the Trans Youth Panel.

Cheryl Morgan

@cherylmorgan.bsky.social

11 months ago

Back at U.Vic. for the final event of #MTHF25. As is traditional, it is a youth panel with a bunch of trans teenagers on it.

Kevin Standlee

@kevinstandlee.bsky.social

11 months ago

A more casual look for the final day of #MTHF25 — it’s only coincidental that the top sort of evokes the trans flag colors during what the conference organizers are calling the Trans Weekend of Visibility.

Kevin Standlee

@kevinstandlee.bsky.social

11 months ago

Seen on the bus ride back to the hotel from #MTHF25 with @cherylmorgan.bsky.social

Cheryl Morgan

@cherylmorgan.bsky.social

11 months ago

Disappointment of the day: I missed the @rikiwilchins.bsky.social presentation because it was scheduled against my session. #MTHF25

Cheryl Morgan

@cherylmorgan.bsky.social

11 months ago

Interesting evening browsing the trans archives at U.Vic.. They have a lot of UK material because no British university would take it. Found copies of the fashion column I wrote for the Beaumont Society back in the 1990s. #MTHF25

Kevin Standlee

@kevinstandlee.bsky.social

11 months ago

#MTHF25 concurrent session including @cherylmorgan.bsky.social “Translating Trans Lives: Aleksandrov Aleksandrov (1783-1866)

Cheryl Morgan

@cherylmorgan.bsky.social

11 months ago

It is time for my panel, but first up is a paper about a contemporary Jewish person who identifies as a Tumtum. This makes the historian of the ancient world in me very happy. #MTHF25

Cheryl Morgan

@cherylmorgan.bsky.social

11 months ago

Very relieved to have a wonderful panel of trans elders at #MTHF25 to distract me from the rugby disaster in Caerdydd. Also a wonderful panel of trans women academics doing history about trans women.

Kevin Standlee

@kevinstandlee.bsky.social

11 months ago

Like many of the panels at #MTHF25 this panel is hybrid, with some presenters participating remotely. The conference overall is online, with many people watching online. I’m lucky to have been able to come to Canada in person, but of course many people are unable to travel.

Christopher Wolff

@respectthecows.bsky.social

11 months ago

Fantastic panel on #trans feminine #history by trans feminine historians at #mthf25 , so glad to have caught it!

Kevin Standlee

@kevinstandlee.bsky.social

11 months ago

#MTHF25 concurrent session: Transfeminine Subjects, Transfeminine Historians.

Kevin Standlee

@kevinstandlee.bsky.social

11 months ago

You wouldn’t know it because people are reluctant to sit at the front tables, but the room is packed for the Trans Elders panel at #MTHF25

Kevin Standlee

@kevinstandlee.bsky.social

11 months ago

Wonderful mirrors near the gender neutral single occupancy restrooms at the #MTHF25 venue show off the pattern of this dress.

Kevin Standlee

@kevinstandlee.bsky.social

11 months ago

We have a great suite at the Doubletree Victoria. Here’s my fit for today at #MTHF25 — fortunately, the morning rain has cleared so I only need my coat, not an umbrella.

Kevin Standlee

@kevinstandlee.bsky.social

11 months ago

Taking the bus from our hotel with @cherylmorgan.bsky.social from our hotel in downtown Victoria to #MTHF25 at the University of Victoria.

Kevin Standlee

@kevinstandlee.bsky.social

11 months ago

I’m letting Kayla use my account while she attends #MTHF25 in Victoria, until she gets around to getting her own account.

Cheryl Morgan

@cherylmorgan.bsky.social

11 months ago

A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States

I didn’t write much about #MTHF25 yesterday because I was too focused on the presentations, but this looks like a fascinating book: sunypress.edu/Books/A/A-Hi...

David Boobstoknow (he/they)

@californiaquail.bsky.social

11 months ago

Being surrounded by trans joy is life changing. Highly recommend. #MTHF25