Core to Who I Am

The Trump administration recently rolled back some federal protections for transgender patients. We look at the fight to secure health care for trans Americans and explore the extent to which policies designed to expand access have delivered on their promise.


Guests:


Kellan Baker, PhD, Centennial Scholar, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Melvin Whitehead, PhD, Assistant Professor of Student Affairs Administration, Binghamton University

Katie Keith, Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown Law

Taylor Brown, Staff Attorney, ACLU LGBT & HIV Project


Read a transcript of the episode, see maps of which states offer legal protections to transgender patients, and more on our website: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/07/14/core-to-who-i-am/

 

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