Power, Ignorance, and the Aesthetics of Science: Trans Healthcare and the Cass Review

Ruth Pearce is Lecturer in Community Development at the University of Glasgow. Her research explores themes of inequality, marginalisation, power, and transformative political struggle from a trans feminist perspective. Ruth’s research has explored topics including queer and feminist arts and culture, inequalities in Higher Education, and trans people’s experiences of pregnancy and childbirth.

Ruth is the author of Understanding Trans Health (Policy Press, 2018), plus co-editor of The Emergence of Trans (Routledge, 2019) and TERF Wars (Sage, 2020). She is currently co-editor of the Community Development Journal, and has edited special issues of Sexualities and the International Journal of Transgender Health. Ruth blogs and shares her academic work for free on her website.

Lecture proposée: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-u-k-s-cass-review-badly-fails-trans-children/.