Join us for the 2025 Rainbow Lecture: "Making Gender-Affirming Care Policy—What is the Role of Human Rights?" with Florence Ashley, Assistant Professor, University of Alberta Faculty of Law, who will present this talk virtually to an in-person audience in the Hawkins-Carlson Room of Rush Rhees Library. 

About Florence Ashley:

My work as a transfeminine jurist and bioethicist focuses on how we can use law and medicine to better the lives of trans communities and, hopefully, all marginalized communities. My research is rooted in the idea that the criminal justice system won’t save us, but gender self-determination might. I am an assistant professor at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law and adjunct member of the John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre. I hold a doctorate from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and Joint Centre for Bioethics. Before being a doctoratrix, I received BCL/JD and LLM degrees from McGill University and proudly worked as the first openly transfeminine clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada, in the chambers of McGill University and University of Alberta alumnus Justice Sheilah Martin. Read more.