A Special Edition of NYU Metro Center’s Voices in Urban Education (VUE) Focuses on Queer and Trans Youth Resistance Within Oppressive Systems

Posted by Pharoah Cranston on 2023-07-24

Newly minted laws force families with trans children to seek gender reaffirming care in states other than where they reside. Twenty different states across the country “... have enacted laws restricting or banning gender-affirming care for trans minors …”(Alfonseca, 2023). This contemporary moment finds that queer and trans youth, “... and what they do with their own bodies and lives, are [...]