BASECAMP

15 November 2025, 12:00 - 14:00

Trans Healthcare Study Collective III

monthly study group

Trans politics have become a lightning rod for contemporary culture wars and a primary target of right-wing nationalist politics. Anti-trans legislation in the US, bans on puberty blockers in the UK, anti-gender movements across the world – as politician Carla Antonelli recently exclaimed in a fiery speech in the Spanish parliament: “Trans people – we are everyone’s topic of conversation. Everyone has to have an opinion about us. If we are trans, what we are, what we are not.”

At the heart of these debates, is access to health care. Health care can be both a site of capture and control, but also a site of radical politics. How can we envisage alternative infrastructures of health care? And how does the struggle for health care offer us a prism into broader demands for justice?

The Trans Healthcare Collective comes together monthly to critically discuss transgender healthcare within local and global contexts. Their meetings are a practice of collective study situated within a political struggle against the abjection of trans life.

email l.hettinga@uu.nl to sign up and/or for a PDF of the readings.

Do you need support with travel? Also let them know! The COC Bob Angela Fund supports this and other smallscale initiatives that are focused on the acceptance of LGBTI*s, for and by LGBTI*s. Support them by making meeting possible

The study session will be followed by lunch based on donation.