Please join us for Transpositive on KBOO Community Radio on Tuesday, February 6th as we talk with transgender icon, activist and author Riki Wilchins about her new book "When Texas Came for Our Kids"
As researcher Erin Reed has noted, if we could take a time machine back to 2019, we would be shocked at lives of transgender children — they change their names and birth certificates, played school sports, and got puberty blockers and hormones freely in all 50 states. But in just three years it would all disappear. By early 2023, over 1,000 bills would be introduced in more than half of state legislatures that sought to criminalize nearly every facet of their lives.
What happened?
‘When Texas Came for Our Kids’ is the first and the definitive account of how white Christian nationalists — enraged from a string of devasting Supreme Court defeats — pivoted from gay people to transgender youth and made them the new face of the culture war. And it all began in Texas, which enacted the first effective ban on gender-affirming care by redefining it as felony child abuse, instantly criminalizing hundreds of loving families overnight and sending many fleeing across its borders in panic.
Riki Wilchins was one of the founders of transgender political activism in the 1990s, as well as one of its first theorists and chroniclers. She is the author of a 10 books on queer theory and transgender politics, including Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender, Gender Queer: Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary, Queer Theory, Gender Theory: An Instant Prime, Burn the Binary: Selected Writings on the Politics of Trans, Genderqueer & Nonbinary and TRANS/Gressive: How Transgender Activists Took on Gay Rights, Feminism, & the Media
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