Transgender and gender-expansive psychedelic users’ concerns about colonization, racism, and medicalization in western psychedelic science
Psychedelics March 7, 2026 Skylar J. Gaughan, Jae Sevelius, Rafael Lancelotta et al.
Psychedelics have long histories of use in Indigenous communities for healing, spiritual, and ceremonial purposes. In contrast, Western psychedelic science has emerged through frameworks shaped by colonization, racism, and medicalization. These systems often marginalize and exclude the very communities most impacted by trauma, including transgender and gender-expansive (TGE) individuals,...