On this week's program, we bring you a vital community conversation about Legislating Gender. On March 7th, the University of Louisville presented its 2024 Minx Auerbach Lecture featuring Paisley Currah, Professor of Women's & Gender Studies and Political Science at the City University of New York (CUNY), and author of the book, "Sex is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity."
The legislative assault on transgender people in the United States seems new, but governments have been regulating the lives of transgender people for decades. Outside of trans communities, few were aware of the Kafkaesque web of regulations that trans people find themselves in. Now that policing of the gender binary has been transformed from an unremarkable aspect of bureaucratic policymaking to a weapon in the culture wars, everyone is paying attention. In this talk, Paisley Currah will explore the connections between contemporary conflicts over trans issues and the history and persistence of gender and racial hierarchies in American society.
Truth to Power brings you conversations you won't hear anywhere else on the airwaves. The program airs every Friday at 9pm, Saturday at 11am, and Sunday at 7pm on Louisville's grassroots, community radio station, Forward Radio 106.5fm WFMP and live streams at http://forwardradio.org