Eliminating racism and transphobia from our world requires examining have a better understanding of how the gender binary functions systemically to maintain white, wealthy, cisgender men and women at the top of a hierarchy of people.

Reflect on these big-idea questions before listening to the webinar. Then revisit them after you finish the webinar. Notice if any of your responses change

• How have racial hierarchies evolved over time through gender violence?
• How have African and Indigenous people resisted colonialism and the gender binary for the past four centuries?
• What does it look like to imagine and create a world beyond the colonial gender binary?

Race Forward’s innovative #RaceAnd Webinar series brings you #RaceAnd The Gender Binary, a webinar introduction to the past and present connections between race, colonialism, and the gender binary. Eliminating transphobia from our world requires examining not only bigotry, but also the political and material interests of wealthy and powerful people. By the end of this webinar, participants will have a better understanding of how the gender binary functions systemically to maintain white, wealthy, cisgender men and women at the top of a hierarchy of people

While many of the inequalities in medicine can be attributed to economic factors like access to good health care, studies have shown minority patients tend to receive a lower quality of care than non-minorities, even when they have the same types of health insurance and the same ability to pay for care.

So how do we better understand this divide? History is usually a good place to start. In this installment of Vox and ProPublica’s collaboration, we lay out some of the dark history of race and women’s medicine. We go back to the painful experimentation on slaves for medical science — particularly by one doctor named J. Marion Sims. Sims was known as the “father of modern gynecology,” and his statue stands in Central Park, across from the New York Academy of Medicine. The vestiges of abuse continue to haunt the medical system, and give context to current racial disparities.

After watching this video. consider the following questions:

• What are some key takeaways from Malcolm Shanks’ research?
• What are some past and present examples where white gender norms and categories used to police the role of women in fighting patriarchy and gender oppression?
• What are some examples of that white settler colonialisms created systemic ways that perpetuate transphobia? How have Black people, Indigenous people and people of color resisted colonialism and the gender binary for the past four centuries?
• What are some ways to center those oppressed, by ableism, colonization and white gender norms, in your anti-racism work as a white Person?