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Bathrooms and sports teams are in the crosshairs of the current moral panic aimed at eroding transgender rights. Over the past few months, a bill was proposed that would bar Sarah McBride, the first openly-trans person elected to US Congress, from using a congressional restroom aligned with her gender; a House bill barring trans athletes from female school sports team was passed; at least 26 states have passed bans on gender affirming care for minors; and most recently, an Executive Order declared that there are only two sexes—male and female—and that these are determined at conception.
Within this landscape, it is clear that bathrooms and sports teams are flashpoints within the broader attacks on transgender civil rights. The attacks on trans rights are likely the opening salvo of imminent broader challenges to LGBTQ+ rights, which may extend to same sex marriage and other gains of the last few decades.
This panel-style presentation brings together scholars and experts on these topics, to discuss and investigate the current culture wars, and to contextualize these within the history of previous gender-based moral panics. We will also look ahead and ask, how can trans individuals, the trans community, and all those devoted to gender justice respond both in terms of activism and also in terms of self-preservation and well-being.
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Frankie de la Cretaz is an award winning journalist whose work sits at the intersection of sports, gender, and culture. They are the co-author of Hail Mary: The Rise and Fall of the National Women’s Football League, and their writing has been featured in The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, The Atlantic, and more.
Claire Bond Potter is Professor of History Emeritus at The New School for Social Research in Greenwich Village, New York City, the author of the Political Junkie Substack and an associated podcast, “Why Now?” She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The New Republic, Yale Review, and Dissent. Her most recent book is Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy (Basic Books, July 7, 2020.) Currently, she is writing a biography of radical feminist Susan Brownmiller.
Joel Sanders, FAIA, is the founding Principal of JSA/MIXdesign, an architectural studio and inclusive design consultancy dedicated to making everyday building types accessible and welcoming to people of different ages, genders, abilities, cultural identities, and religions. Sanders is also a Professor at Yale School of Architecture and Yale School of Public Health, where he teaches classes that examine the intersection of architecture and mental and physical health. His projects have been featured in international exhibitions and the permanent collections of MoMA, SFMoMA, Cooper Hewitt, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Carnegie Museum of Art.
Allyn Walker is Assistant Professor of Criminology at Saint Mary’s University in Kjipuktuk (Halifax), Nova Scotia. Their ongoing research focuses on non-criminalizing strategies to address the root causes of harm while supporting people who have lived through violence and marginalization. They are the author of A Long, Dark Shadow: Minor-Attracted People and their Pursuit of Dignity (2021, University of California Press). Their upcoming volume, Abolition and Queer Justice, co-edited with Aimee Wodda, will be published with UC Press later this year.
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