Transgender Health Law and Policy Theory Practice Seminar
About the Seminar
While access to gender-affirming healthcare for transgender and/or nonbinary people has improved in recent years, health insurance companies and government agencies continue to deny trans people coverage for the treatments and procedures they need. Health insurance policy language, interpretation, and implementation often create disadvantages and barriers for trans people who attempt to access care. In this program, Professor Shauhin Talesh will explore how the contested life of insurance policy terminology produces a reality for rights, but also results in insurance-mediated care that is a socially contested and negotiated process. Professor Alejandra Caraballo ’16 will discuss the practical barriers to care and discrimination that transgender people continue to experience when seeking gender-affirming procedures. Students from Brooklyn Law School’s LGBT Advocacy Clinic will address the particular barriers confronting incarcerated people and Medicare recipients, and how those communities struggle to access the care they need.
This program will be held on Zoom with opportunity for audience questions.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Health, Science and Public Policy and the LGBT Advocacy Clinic
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Health Insurance Rights and Access to Care for Trans People: The Social Construction of Medical Necessity
SPEAKER
Professor of Law
University of California Irvine School of Law
MODERATOR
Professor of Law
Brooklyn Law School
Practical Realities of Assisting Clients to Access Gender Affirming Care
SPEAKERS
Clinical Instructor
Harvard Law School
Sofia Kaufman ’22
Clinical Law Student
LGBT Advocacy Clinic
Brooklyn Law School
Leilani O’Sullivan ’23
Clinical Law Student
LGBT Advocacy Clinic
Brooklyn Law School
Walker Shockley ’23
Clinical Law Student
LGBT Advocacy Clinic
Brooklyn Law School
MODERATOR
Associate Professor of Law
Director, LGBT Advocacy Clinic
Brooklyn Law School
Please RSVP by Tuesday, October 19
More Information
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