Transgender Health Equity and the Law
Wayne State University Law School
October 17, 2022

Co-sponsors: American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics
and Harvard School of Law LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic

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8:30-9 a.m.      
Registration and Coffee

9-9:30 a.m.      
Welcome
Dean Richard Bierschbach
Ted Hutchinson, ASLME

Opening Remarks (Virtual)
Admiral Rachel Levine, Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services

9:30-10:30 a.m.     
The Current Landscape: Why This Symposium and Why Now?
Heather Walter-McCabe, Wayne State University Law School and School of Social Work
Alexander Chen, Harvard Law School, Founding Director, LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic

10:30-11:45 a.m.   
The Function of Law in Human Rights and Transgender Populations
Moderator, TBN
J. Lloyd Allen, Wayne State University School of Social Work

Transcending the Gender Binary under International Law: Advancing Health-Related Human Rights for Trans* Populations (Virtual)
Aoife O’Connor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health & Benjamin Mason Meier, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health

Transporting the Burden of Justification: The Unethicality of Transgender Conversion Practices (Virtual)
Florence Ashley, University of Toronto

Noon-1:15 p.m.   
Lunch

1:15-2:45       
Health Care Access and Funding
Moderator
Luisa Kcomt, Wayne State University School of Social Work

Utilization and Costs of Gender-Affirming Care in a Privately Insured Transgender Population
Kellan Baker, Whitman-Walker Institute

Intersectional Structural Stigma, Community Priorities, and Opportunities for Transgender Health Equity: Findings from TRANSforming the Carolinas
Ames Simmons, Duke University School of Law

Reconceiving Reproductive Health Systems: Caring for Trans, Nonbinary, and Gender-Expansive People During Pregnancy and Childbirth (Virtual)
Elizabeth Kukura, Drexel University Kline School of Law

2:45-3 p.m.       
Break

3-4:15 p.m.       
Reflections on the Past and Plans for Moving Forward
Moderator
Simone Chess, Wayne State University, Director of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies

Improving “Life Chances”: Surveying the Anti-Transgender Backlash, and Offering a Transgender Equity Impact Assessment Tool for Policy Analysis
M. Killian Kinney, Pacific University

Unbending the Light: Changing Laws and Policies to Make Transgender Health Visible; Reflections of an Advocate
Jamison Green, Transgender Rights Advocate, Former President of WPATH

3:15-4:30 p.m.       
Wrap Up and Evaluation
Heather Walter-McCabe & Alexander Chen

4:30-6 p.m.    
Reception
Welcome
Lance Gable
Wayne State University Law School