Talk by Jules Gill-Peterson
Event details
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
4:00–6:00 PM (EST)
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100A
170 St. George Street, Toronto
We are pleased to invite you to a public lecture by historian Jules Gill-Peterson that critically examines the historical foundations of contemporary transgender medicine.
The talk, “Gender Dysphoria and the Class Divide of Transgender Medicine,” explores how the gender dysphoria diagnosis—developed at Stanford University in the 1970s and later adopted worldwide—reshaped access to medical transition. While often understood as a liberalizing development, this model shifted the financial burden of transition onto patients themselves, producing an enduring class divide and displacing the poor transsexual women early gender clinics had sought to support.
Bringing together history, political economy, and transgender studies, this talk offers timely insight into current debates over trans healthcare, medical authority, and inequality.
Masks encouraged!
Registration is required via Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/gender-dysphoria-and-the-class-divide-of-transgender-medicine-tickets-1982047573648?aff=oddtdtcreator
Organized by the LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory, with support from the Department of History, and the Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto.
Contact Information
aino.pihlak@mail.utoronto.ca
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