GWSS Professor Amanda Swarr is featured in The Daily article, “Trans students are carrying the weight of the world. And UW administration’s silence is violent,” by Luna Crone-Barón. The piece highlights the grief, anxiety, and erasure trans students are facing amid escalating anti-trans rhetoric and violence — both nationally and on campus.
Swarr noted that many students are grappling with uncertainty about the future and concern over access to support.
“Trans students are carrying the weight of the world,” Swarr said. “Trans students are facing erasure through denial of identity documents, denial of gender-affirming care…The students I have spoken to are in a space of anxiety about what the future holds and what avenues of support they will be able to access.”
She also contextualized the rise in transphobic hostility:
“There is a strong movement to shore up this regressive thinking around gender binaries that doesn’t match up with science or society…Trans folks have been made scapegoats of contemporary anxieties about what it means to be a woman and what it means to be a man. And the way that this is playing out is very violent.”
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