Gender and Sexuality in the US Election - discussion online 23 April 2024

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Issues related to gender and sexuality have become a major focus in the 2024 US presidential election – from sexual orientation and gender identity, to gender equality and LGBTQ+ rights.

Join us online for the next event in our series hosted by UCL Social & Historical Sciences, where our experts are unpacking the pressing issues of this historic election year.

Our panel of speakers will explore:

• LGBT issues and the political climate with the Republican party honing in on transphobic policies,
• the role of the so-called “Mama Bears” - conservative women who have become politically activated since 2020 - and how they can shape this election, and,
• the US Supreme Court and the uncertain future of rights around bodily autonomy after the 2024 election.

This event is free and open to all.

• Meet the speakers and chair providing their unique disciplinary insightsProfessor Phillip Ayoub is Professor of International Relations (UCL Department of Political Science)
• Dr Katie Gaddini is Associate Professor of Sociology (UCL Social Research Institute) and Affiliate Researcher (UCL Centre for US Politics and UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation)
• Professor Jonathan Bell is Professor of American History (UCL Institute of the Americas)
• Chair: Dr Rebecca Jennings is Associate Professor in Modern Gender (UCL History) and Vice-Dean Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (UCL Faculty of Social & Historical Sciences)

Free https://www.ucl.ac.uk/social-historical-sciences/events/2024/apr/gender-and-sexuality-us-election

Interesting that they are discussing this in relation to the US but not the UK election. I wonder why?

It's free and online and a few tickets left. As they released a recording of the Match event I presume there will be one for this.

Not that I am or would be a Republican but thought this:

• LGBT issues and the political climate with the Republican party honing in on transphobic policies,
• the role of the so-called “Mama Bears” - conservative women who have become politically activated since 2020 - and how they can shape this election, and,
• the US Supreme Court and the uncertain future of rights around bodily autonomy after the 2024 election.

was exactly like how some posters come on FWR and say if you are gender critical you are transphobic and / or right wing.

So effectively the discussion is already over for this event because they have just hidden women's rights issue and made it just about anti same sex attraction.

For a University they dont seem to have done much research, not unlike the student who has been scrolling through FWR as evidence of our transphobia.

Doesn't sound like education or research in either instance.

But not surprised.