Unpacking Transmedicalism: The Medical Model

In the third episode on Transmedicalism, RJ Quirk (they/them) unpacks the history of the medical model in 16 countries across the world, showing how trans people have been systemically forced and coerced into medically altering their bodies to fit a cisgender benchmark for gender presentation in order to be recognized by the state.

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