{"id":73213,"date":"2025-09-16T11:18:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T15:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/?p=73213"},"modified":"2026-05-12T17:47:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T21:47:52","slug":"assist-prof-willliams-joins-bu-faculty-panel-exploring-recent-scotus-rulings-impact-lgbtqia-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/assist-prof-willliams-joins-bu-faculty-panel-exploring-recent-scotus-rulings-impact-lgbtqia-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Assist. Professor Willliams Joins BU Faculty Panel Exploring Recent SCOTUS Rulings that Impact the LGBTQIA+ Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW) Assistant Professor Darien Williams will join BU faculty experts at <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Meeting This Moment: State and Federal Legal Landscape After Skrmetti and Mahmoud<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\">, a panel discussion exploring SCOTUS rulings that ban healthcare for transgender youth in Tennessee and LGBTQIA+ youth and K_12 curriculum, respectively. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sponsored by the LGBTQIA+ Center for Faculty &amp; Staff<\/span> <span>,t<\/span><span>h<\/span><span>e<\/span><span> event <\/span><span> will <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">do<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> a deep dive into this past June\u2019s SCOTUS rulings in US v. Skrmetti, which upheld Tennessee\u2019s ban on health care for transgender youth; and Mahmoud v. Taylor which upheld parents\u2019 First Amendment rights to opt their children out of K-12 curriculum where five books with LGBTQIA+ content were at the center of the case. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The event will also highlight which cases are on the horizon, including Chiles v. Salazar, an upcoming case out of Colorado that involves a First Amendment challenge to a ban on conversion therapy by licensed professionals. All three cases have profound implications for the well-being of LGBTQIA+ people and the community.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In addition to professor William, panelists include:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aziza Ahmed, Professor of Law and N. Neal Pike Scholar<\/li>\n<li>Linda C. McLain, Robert Kent Professor of Law<\/li>\n<li>Carl G. Streed, Associate Professor of Medicine\/GIM; Research Director, GenderCare Center of BMC<\/li>\n<li>Michael Ulrich, Associate Professor at School of Public Health and School of Law<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The event is open to all BU faculty, staff, and students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Date &amp; Time:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/b>Friday, September 19, 2025<br \/>\n11:30PM \u2013 1:30 PM (EST)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location:<\/strong><span><br \/>\n<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">Online Event\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335551550&quot;:2,&quot;335551620&quot;:2,&quot;335559739&quot;:0}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/profile\/darien-alexander-williams\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Learn More About Professor Darien Williams&#8217; Research<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335551550&quot;:2,&quot;335551620&quot;:2,&quot;335559739&quot;:0}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW) Assistant Professor Darien Williams will join BU faculty experts at Meeting This Moment: State and Federal Legal Landscape After Skrmetti and Mahmoud, a panel discussion exploring SCOTUS rulings that ban healthcare for transgender youth in Tennessee and LGBTQIA+ youth and K_12 curriculum, respectively. \u00a0 Sponsored by the LGBTQIA+ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25047,"featured_media":71711,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7513,7435,7427,7426,4057],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25047"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73213"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80560,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73213\/revisions\/80560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}