Description: Seminar, one hour. Exploration of often tumultuous relationships between transgender Americans and their healthcare providers over past sixty years. Nuanced understanding of transgender medical experience, from gender clinics that proliferated at universities nationwide (including UCLA) to current discussions about medical autonomy and insurance coverage. Recent research into experiences transgender Angelenos are having with their healthcare providers to see how far we've come--and how far we have yet to go. P/NP grading. Facilitated by Elias Lawliet, with Michelle F. Erai as faculty mentor.

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