College of Physicians and Surgeons Newfoundland and Labrador Medical Ethics Public Lecture
Friday, March 28, 12-1 p.m.
Faculty of Medicine main auditorium; online
Speaker: Professor Kinnon Ross MacKinnon, MSW, PhD—School of Social Work, York University
Title: Goldilocks and the Three Bears of Gender Medicine: Examining Histories of Clinical and Bioethical Debate
Learning objectives:
- To understand the history of transgender medicine and bioethical debates through discrete time periods, from past to present;
- To illustrate how social attitudes and ideas about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) people directly shape clinical care practices in transgender medicine;
- To apply “the goldilocks principle” to examine tensions in transgender medicine regarding beliefs about research, data, and clinical practice.
Don’t miss this insightful discussion on the history, ethics, and evolving landscape of transgender medicine.
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Presented by Faculty of Medicine