This will be an online Zoom meeting. Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link. See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions
Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm and you can join in to the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social. Followed by an extended discussion for a half hour. Volunteers please join by 10:30 am.
Trans issues have been in the news in increasing numbers in recent years – and not always good news: for example, dozens of US states have banned trans girls from playing sport, and so-called “gender-critical feminists” in the UK have started transphobic campaigns. At the basis of these actions is, to borrow from Archie Bunker, the view that “girls are girls and men are men”.
Why is binary thinking so popular and so persistent, in the face of decades of scientific evidence that there are more than two genders? Why do pronouns matter? Our featured speaker, Helen Lenskyj, will be addressing these and other questions during this presentation and discussion.
Helen Lenskyj is Professor Emerita, University of Toronto, where she taught sociology. Helen grew up in Australia and has lived in Toronto since 1966. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Toronto in 1983, and was a professor from 1986 until retiring in 2007.
As well as writing books, Helen enjoys swimming and kayaking. Her website is www.helenlenskyj.ca; TWITTER: https://twitter.com/helenje63185798
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Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!
This meeting has been recorded: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oiGTBmPXwvfiiOwpBTw198aqdgMYA7ef/view?usp=sharing