Webinar: Socio-medical norms and practices regarding children's gender/sex
When: Tuesday, April 1, 2025, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Where: Online
Join us for the fourth session in a webinar series organised by the Childhood, Law & Policy Network (CLPN). This series explores social issues relating to children and their bodies. The fourth webinar will focus on social and medical norms and practices regarding children’s gender/sex.
Panellists
Georgiann Davis is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminology at the University of New Mexico in the US. She is an intersex scholar-activist whose research, teaching, and activism are at the intersection of medical violence and feminist theories. Among other scholarly contributions that appeared in outlets ranging from Ms. Magazine to the American Journal of Bioethics, she is the author of Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis. She is currently working on a cultural memoir entitled Five Star White Trash which is an unexpected story about familial trauma, medical abuse, and injustices within the criminal legal system. She is a former board president of interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth and a past-president of InterConnect Support Group.
Jordan Osserman is a Lecturer in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex in the UK and a clinical psychoanalyst. His current ethnographic research investigates the role of time for clinicians who worked at a public youth gender clinic in the UK, as part of the Wellcome?funded Waiting Times project. Jordan's book, Circumcision on the Couch: The Cultural, Psychological, and Gendered Dimensions of the World's Oldest Surgery was published with Bloomsbury Press.
Elizabeth Rahilly is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Georgia Southern University in the US. Her research and teaching interests include gender and sexualities, LGBTQ studies, feminist studies, families and childhood socialization, social inequalities, intersectionality, and qualitative research methods. Among her publications is the book Trans-Affirmative Parenting: Raising Kids Across the Gender Spectrum (NYU Press) and article in journals such as Gender & Society, Discourse & Society, and Sociological Inquiry.