SWRK 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Trans Woman, Trans Man, Gender Identity

• School: McGill University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: SWRK 325
• Professor: Jill Hanley

Document Summary

Guest speaker: dalia tourki: trans rights advocate, researcher and educator, at centre for gender advocacy. Centre for gender advocacy: associated with concordia university, goals, fight for gender equality, empower people from marginalized communities, done through campaigns, education, programing and sharing resources, campaign example: missing justice campaign for missing and murdered indigenous women. Incident/moment/revelation when they realized they were trans: seeing themselves for the first time, revelatory moment when a person realizes this is the answer to all the suffering they have been feeling. Any intervention that supports the development of a person"s authentic and affirmed gender identity, instead of trying to modify it. Obliging a person to conform to societal expectations in terms of gender and gender identity assigned at birth. Insulin shock therapy, electric shocks, lobotomy, neuroleptic molecules, etc. (torture practices) Medical level: hormonotherapy, surgeries, respecting personal choice, validating gender identity, and encouraging self-determination.