#90 FiLiA discusses: Transgendering Children with Heather Brunskell-Evans

Dr Heather Brunskell-Evans is an academic, philosopher, social theorist and feminist activist. She specialises in analysing the politics of the body. Heather’s most recent book Transgender Body Politics is published by Spinifex Press later in 2020. Heather is a passionate advocate for women’s sex based rights and co-writer of the Women’s Declaration of Human Rights. Heather has co-edited two books on the subject of transgender children and young people together with Professor Michele Moore - Transgender Children and Young People: Born in Your Own Body and Inventing Transgender Children and Young People. In this podcast, Heather explains why she uses the phrase “the transgendering of children,” why this is an important feminist issue, as well as why she believes the figure of the transgender child has been socially constructed and how this topic may be related to political forces, misogyny and medicine.

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Website http://www.heather-brunskell-evans.co.uk

Twitter @brunskellevans