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Dean Spade: How Do You Respond to Arguments about Trans Women Affecting Title IX Status of Women’s Colleges?

An excerpt from “Trans Students and Women’s Colleges” – full length available here. Recorded at Barnard SGA Townhall on April 9, 2014.

Dean Spade is the founder of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of the Law, and an associate professor at Seattle University School of Law. At the time of the talk, Dean was a fellow in the Engaging Tradition Project at Columbia Law School.

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