Date: 10/15/2025
Time: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Location
Special Collections Seminar Room
Description
Gender-affirming care is based on dangerously uncertain science. So say lawmakers in the 27 states that have banned medical interventions for minors. This past summer, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with those who portray trans medicine as an “experimental” or even fraudulent healthcare practice. To the contrary, leading domestic and international medical associations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics and World Professional Association for Transgender Health firmly support gender-affirming care for minors as medically necessary and potentially lifesaving. If the medical establishment isn’t driving this narrative of dangerous uncertainty, who is? This talk will detail and interrogate popular arguments against gender-affirming care and reveal how those arguments tend to distort scientific evidence, exaggerate real uncertainties and risks, and spread conspiratorial messages about profiteering gender identity clinics.
This talk will be presented by Professor Joanna Wuest in honor of LGBTQ* History Month. Joanna Wuest is Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University and the author of Born This Way: Science, Citizenship, and Inequality in the American LGBTQ+ Movement.
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