Kerryn Drysdale, a senior research fellow at the University of NSW Centre for Social Research in Health, will host an online seminar next month to ensure trans people are not left out of the “contemporary menopause moment’’.
“The way we’ve framed menopause historically has been something that affects cisgender women in midlife,’’ she told The Australian.
“The fact is that all people with ovaries will experience a form of menopause throughout the life course. We’re at a tipping point where menopause could take on various social-cultural meanings.
“Menopause isn’t just happening clinically or medically or as part of women’s health.
“It’s actually becoming a bit of a media moment … it’s really hard to disentangle the medical from the social-cultural.’’
The UNSW Centre for Social Research in Health and its Social Policy Research Centre are advertising the online seminar on April 28, titled “reimagining menopause for trans and gender diverse people’’.
[Ed: And this from what is supposedly one of Australia’s leading universities. Definitely a ‘media moment’.]
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