monthly study group
to critically discuss transgender healthcare
within local and global contexts

12:00 - 14:00

From September 2025 onwards, the TSC joins the ecosystem of collectives, organizers, and artists based at BAK: Basecamp for Tactical Imaginaries. Their meetings are a practice of collective study situated within a political struggle against the abjection of trans life.

Trans politics have become a lightning rod for contemporary culture wars and a primary target of right-wing nationalist politics. Anti-trans legislation in the US, bans on puberty blockers in the UK, anti-gender movements across the world – as politician Carla Antonelli recently exclaimed in a fiery speech in the Spanish parliament: “Trans people – we are everyone’s topic of conversation. Everyone has to have an opinion about us. If we are trans, what we are, what we are not.”

At the heart of these debates, is access to health care. Health care can be both a site of capture and control, but also a site of radical politics. How can we envisage alternative infrastructures of health care? And how does the struggle for health care offer us a prism into broader demands for justice?

Text: "Uncertain Expertise in Trans Medicine" in Trans Medicine: the Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender (2021), by stef m. shuster

email l.hettinga@uu.nl to sign up and/or for a PDF of the text