In October of 2018, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services revealed efforts to revert to outdated or retrograde definitions of gender, specifically aiming to re-define trans people out of existence. WGSS publicly protested the move first through posting a statement on its website. WGSS faculty also read the statement at the 2018 InQueery Symposium, Queer (Trans)formations: Envisioning the Future of Queer Theory and Politics, on Monday, October 29, in the Elson S. Floyd Cultural Center. This was followed by keynote speaker C. Riley Snorton’s presentation, “Thinking Race, Rethinking Sex: Towards a New Trans History.”
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