Trans Care: A Critical Conversation

A panel of leading scholars on trans and queer studies discussed the recently published book “Trans Care” by Rock Ethics Institute research associate Hil Malatino, assistant professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Penn State. The virtual event took place Tuesday, December 1, 2020.
Joining Malatino was Jules Gill-Peterson, associate professor of English and gender, sexuality, and women’s studies at the University of Pittsburgh, and Ann Cvetkovich, director of the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies at Carleton University. The panel explored themes raised in Malatino’s book, such as the unique challenges faced by trans individuals, how traditional systems of support often fail them and why we must radically rethink the ethics of care as it applies to them.
Published by the University of Minnesota Press, “Trans Care” rejects dominant understandings of the ethics of care and draws attention to how they help entrench family structures and other gendered arrangements that marginalize trans individuals. In the book, Malatino goes beyond just critiquing where existing theories fall short and tackles the critical work of reimagining what an ethics of care looks like in communities of trans individuals and their allies.
“Trans Care” is Malatino’s second book in as many years exploring issues related to gender and sex equity. In 2019, he published “Queer Embodiment: Monstrosity, Medical Violence, and Intersex Experience” with the University of Nebraska Press.
The discussion was sponsored by Penn State's Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the Rock Ethics Institute.

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I just wanted to say that I am transgender and I am leaving the US soon due to what I have faced. Esp. with all the anti-trans laws.