On Wednesday November 7th from 5:30-7pm the second Feminist Discussion Night of the year took place in the WCC, this time focusing on Stanford’s transgender history. The event opened with a presentation from Phoebe Peter Oathout about the history and then segwayed into an open discussion about how this history fit into today’s discourse, especially the recent Trump Administration’s announcement.
Here are a few interesting things that came up:
- Stanford’s Gender Dysphoria Program, founded in the 1960s, helped set many of the legal rules that are still in place today for transgender medical care.
- Early transgender medical care focused on the “wrong body narrative” as an explanation for the phenomena.
- Many students on campus, especially non-binary, feel erased by this history.
- Many of the US’ best transgender thinkers and artists have some association with Stanford.
Attached below are the event’s flyer and a photo taken from the event of Oathout speaking. Also, here is a link to a Stanford Daily article discussing the event.
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