Academic, educator, speaker: Samuel Moir-Smith is shaking the foundations of how medicine thinks about sex and gender. "I specialise in studying trans health and medicine," he says. "A lot of my work critiques the concepts of biological sex, gender and trans identities in medicine and science – that's my day job." Born and raised in Essex, Moir-Smith transitioned in school – "had a great experience with that, super fortunate" – and has since turned his focus outward. "We know that healthcare experiences are really bad... So let's trace that back." Now, he's challenging the curriculum itself. "I'm trying to get the students to see sex as socially constructed as gender is. That's the struggle."
~ by EMILY PHILLIPS
