Fifková, Matějčková: Will We Be Who We Are?

Girls who don’t want to grow into women. This phenomenon brought together psychiatrist and sexologist Hana Fifková and philosopher Tereza Matějčková, who  first met in 2024 at a debate on the growing number of girls considering gender reassignment. That discussion grew into philosophical conversations. What roles do social media and contemporary feminism play? In the book-length interview Budeme, kým jsme? (Will We Be Who We Are?) Matějčková also goes back to the 1990s, when Fifková, as a young psychiatrist and sexologist, worked in a closed sexology ward at Bohnice psychiatric hospital, raising the topic of sexual abuse at doctors’ surgeries and becoming a popular “public sexologist”.

The author is not only interested in these topics, but also in the personality of the interviewee. How has her 30 years of sexology practice influenced her as a daughter, mother, wife, grandmother? And how does a person who has been addressing issues of gender identity for more than 30 years view the present situation? 

Barbora Kroužková will serve as moderator.