Session: Student Session and Luncheon: Social Work’s Role in Combating Anti-Transgender Legislation and Promoting Trans Rights [presented in person and live streamed] (Society for Social Work and Research 27th Annual Conference - Social Work Science and Complex Problems: Battling Inequities + Building Solutions)

All in-person and virtual presentations are in Mountain Standard Time Zone (MST).

SSWR 2023 Poster Gallery: as a registered in-person and virtual attendee, you have access to the virtual Poster Gallery which includes only the posters that elected to present virtually. The rest of the posters are presented in-person in the Poster/Exhibit Hall located in Phoenix A/B, 3rd floor. The access to the Poster Gallery will be available via the virtual conference platform the week of January 9. You will receive an email with instructions how to access the virtual conference platform.

247 Student Session and Luncheon: Social Work’s Role in Combating Anti-Transgender Legislation and Promoting Trans Rights [presented in person and live streamed]

Schedule:
Saturday, January 14, 2023: 12:30 PM-1:45 PM
Valley of the Sun C, 2nd Level (Sheraton Phoenix Downtown)
Speakers/Presenters:
Jeanne Woodbury, Equality Arizona, Bec Sokha Keo, PhD, MSW, University of Houston, Onyekachi J. Ekeogu, MS, Arizona State University, Jane Hereth, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Leonardo Kattari, MSW, Michigan State University and Darren Whitfield, PhD, University of Maryland at Baltimore
Bills targeting transgender and nonbinary people have been introduced and passed in a wave of transphobic laws across the United States. In 2022, anti-trans legislators set records by introducing more than 144 pieces of legislation that restricted the rights and protections of transgender and gender non-binary adolescents and adults to participate in school activities, receive life-affirming healthcare, maintain confidentiality over personal records, and other key rights. Activists, organizers, and members of the transgender community have challenged these efforts at the local, state, and national level, both historically and contemporarily. A solidly conservative Supreme Court, however, threatens to stymie these efforts.

This year’s doctoral student luncheon convenes social work scholars, educators, and practitioners to discuss social work’s role in mobilizing resources, fighting for trans rights, and combating anti-trans actions at the local and national level.

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