Material Girl: Why Trans Rights Is Class Struggle | Provocations 2023
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This Provocations 2023 forum was called \\u201cMaterial Girl: Why trans rights is class struggle,\\u201d which was a talk and discussion led by Sophie Cotton. Sophie Cotton is a National Tertiary Education Union representative at Sydney Uni and is on the Queer committee. She\\u2019s been a staunch activist in the fight for trans rights and gender affirmation leave.
Cotton argues that class struggle is an avenue to winning trans rights, and that gender and trans experiences are a material fact in response to Kathleen Stocks\\u2019s transphobic book titled \\u201cMaterial Girls.\\u201d She recounts her experience in the NTEU and Sydney Uni bargaining campaign\\u2014fighting for gender affirmation leave.