Trans Health in Dark Times

The costs of the “Transgender Tipping Point” have been enormously high for trans people. Over the past few years, a rising tide of anti-trans sentiment has resulted in hundreds of individual anti-trans policies being considered at local, state, and national levels across the United States. Conversations about trans health under these conditions tend largely to focus on either attempts to curtail access to gender-affirming care or the clinical encounter more broadly.

Kimoto argues that this focus reproduces the overly narrow analyses common to bioethical inquiry. Building on the work of trans and decolonial scholars, they develop an account of trans health that attends to the worlds produced in dark times.

This event is sponsored by the NAU Departments of Philosophy and Women and Gender Studies, and the Wood Professorship, and is free and open to the public, IN LIBERAL ARTS ROOM 123, AT 3:45, ON APRIL 18.