History

It’s been more than a decade since the first national, FTM-specific conference was held in 1995, held in San Francisco and sponsored by FTM International. Since then, there have been multiple other national FTM-specific conferences (sometimes explicitly including SOFFAs), particularly in the Washington, D.C. area (American Boyz’s True Spirit Conferences), Seattle (lately named Gender Odyssey), and Boston. But there has never been a national FTM/SOFFA conference held in the Midwest.

Until now.

From March 29 to April 1, 2007, FTM+/SOFFAs who have been unable to afford and/or make it to one of the coasts for a national conference will finally have the opportunity to attend one closer to home. The FORGE Forward conference will also give Midwest service providers and LGBT community members the opportunity to hear and benefit from the best trainers, workshop leaders, speakers, and entertainers the transgender community has to offer. Plus, it will give us Midwesterners the chance to showcase what we have been doing while everyone else was looking toward the coasts!

Come and join us for the exciting inauguration of what we hope will be many Midwest-based FTM+/SOFFA conferences.