Trans Politics & Health

Session Submission Type: Invited Session (90 minute)

Description

Panelists in this session reveal ways scholarly research can contribute to better societal understandings about the emergence, institutionalization, and transformation of gender and sexual categories, with a particular eye towards the engagement of marginalized people in the politics and decision-making about their lives. Their research offers analyses of gender identity measurement over time, and the ways health care industries as well as reproductive justice organizations engage with trans and intersex adults. These topics lead to a consideration of social actors’ management of stigma and discrimination processes, as well as ways individuals find joy as they seek to overcome oppression.

Sub Unit

• Special Session

Presider

• Nic Rios, Barnard College

Panelists

• Danya Lagos, University of California-Berkeley

• Kimya Loder, Georgia Institute of Technology

• stef m. shuster, Michigan State University

• Carla A. Pfeffer, Michigan State University

Session Organizers

• Tey Meadow, Columbia University

• Mignon R. Moore, Barnard College