This LGBT+ History Month, Dr Jack Doyle explores the history of the UK’s ongoing – and often overlooked – trans healthcare crisis. While J K Rowling and American challenges to trans youth’s healthcare provision frequently make the headlines, few outside British and Irish trans communities are aware that transition-related care has become virtually inaccessible through the NHS.

This talk considers the complex history of the current crisis alongside other queer health crises like HIV/AIDS, explores what’s unique about British medical approaches to gender and sexual nonconformity, and draws on the speaker’s own experience as a historian and long-time queer health organiser to offer historically informed ways forward towards trans health justice.

Dr Jack Doyle is a historian of war and queerness in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with a focus on the British, French, and American empires. He is especially interested in military communities as sites of culturally specific violence and of distinct gendered and sexual cultures. As the History Faculty’s first Departmental Lecturer in LGBTQ history, he is passionate about developing collaborative queer, trans, and antiracist pedagogical practice.
Read more here www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/event/universitys-lgbt-history-month-lecture-2024

The lecture is being organised by the LGBT+ Advisory Group and the Equality and Diversity Unit, in collaboration with the Faculty of Law. It will be followed by a drinks reception.