Lunch talk: ‘Torture Isn’t Therapy: Prohibiting Transgender Reparative Therapy’

Florence Ashley is a transfeminine activist based in the unceded Kanien’kehá:ka lands of Tiohtià:ke (also known as Montreal), and LL.M. candidate at McGill University Faculty of Law, specialising in bioethics with a focus on transgender healthcare law. Their thesis bears on the legality of conversion therapy targeting gender identity.
She has a B.C.L. and LL.B. from McGill University Faculty of Law. She is a recipient of the SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship, Master’s Award and a fellow of the McGill Research Group on Health and Law. She has previously held an O’Brien Fellowship at the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism and has received the Bourse Dorais-Ryan of the Conseil québécois LGBT. Florence is active in local trans, feminist, and queer communities, most notably as part of the Advisory Board of the Trans Legal Clinic and as a member of the Comité trans of the Conseil québécois LGBT. She was the 2019 recipient of the Canadian Bar Association’s LGBTT Hero Award.
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