The Center for Applied Transgender Studies is proud to host the second event in its 2022 Distinguished Lecture Series. Events in the series will feature the Center’s Fellows discussing their own original research with a broad audience of scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and interested laypersons. These events will be virtual, free to attend, and open to the public.

This lecture will be given by Junior Fellow Florence Ashley, and will celebrate the launch of their new book Banning Transgender Conversion Practices: A Legal and Policy Analysis (University of British Columbia Press, 2022). The event will also include a moderated discussion with Kelley Winters, PhD.

Survivors of conversion practices—interventions meant to stop gender transition—have likened their experiences to torture. In the last decade, bans on these deeply unethical and harmful processes have proliferated, and governments across the world are considering following suit. Florence Ashley’s new book Banning Transgender Conversion Practices: A Legal and Policy Analysis considers the pivotal concerns for anyone studying or working to prevent these harmful interventions. What is the scope of the bans? How do they differ across jurisdictions? What are the advantages and disadvantages of legislative approaches to regulating trans conversion therapy? In answering these questions, Ashley demonstrates the need for affirmative health care cultures and detailed laws. Banning Transgender Conversion Practices centers trans realities to rethink and push forward the legal regulation of conversion therapy.

The talk will take place from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM Central Daylight Time.

To register for the lecture, visit: https://bit.ly/CATSDL2