#1603: Transgender Students & Transgender Health | The Best Of Our Knowledge

June 11, 2021 00:27:27
#1603: Transgender Students & Transgender Health | The Best Of Our Knowledge
The Best Of Our Knowledge
#1603: Transgender Students & Transgender Health | The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jun 11 2021 | 00:27:27

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Show Notes

Whether they are allowed to play sports or not, there are trans children attending schools across the country. These students, as well as all transgender people have specific health care needs as well as just plain old general health care. Those are the issues Stef Shuster examines in their book “Trans Medicine – The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender”. Dr. Stef Shuster is an assistant professor of sociology at Michigan State University. When we spoke last week I asked how they got involved in the topic.

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