530 - Thematic Session. Transgender Identities, Institutions, and Social Change

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Description

Can social movements change more than just conversations? How much pragmatic, institutional change results from significant shifts in identity categories and individual self-understandings? Participants on this panel will discuss the impact of transgender identities and communities on a range of social institutions, including law and the state, psychoanalysis, biomedicine, and psychiatry.

Sub Unit

• Thematic Sessions

Session Organizer

• Tey Meadow, Harvard University

Panelists

• Avgi Saketopoulou, Psychoanalyst

• Eric Plemons, University of Arizona