such as ‘transgendered’, ‘re-gendered’, ‘gender-blending’, ‘gender bending’, ‘gender fucking’ and ‘transhomosexuality’ have been added to the lexicon of so-called ‘gender dissonant behaviour’” (Raymond, 1994: xxv). The 14 years between the publications had witnessed considerable shifts both in relation to the lived experiences of transgender people and in terms of theoretical discourse, much of which was being developed by transgender academics themselves. Significantly, this period saw the increased visibility and activism of transgender men. Nevertheless
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Introduction In the summer of 2020, six Black transgender women were murdered during a nine-day period in the United States ( Devin-Norelle, 2020 ). Two of these women, Shakiie Peters and Draya McCarty, were Louisiana residents. Though the two murders occurred in very different demographic areas, with Shakiie being killed in a town of under 5,000 and Draya in the state capitol, local media coverage of both deaths was criticised by the victims’ friends, families and transgender advocates, for misgendering and deadnaming the victims. The similar treatment of
. There are a number of studies within sociology, social policy, anthropology and literature and cultural studies that adopt a micro analysis variously to explore transgender identity constructions, behaviour patterns and politics. Devor (1989), Lewins (1995), Nataf (1996) and Cromwell (1999) explore a range of FtM gender and sexual identities. Halberstam (1998) makes visible the historical and contemporary diversity of female masculinity. Kulick (1998) examines the identities and experiences of transgendered prostitutes in Brazil. Wilson (2002) looks at the
47 FOUR Transgender ageing: community resistance and well-being in the life course Vanessa Fabbre and Anna Siverskog Introduction A small but growing field of social research is emerging on the topic of trans1 ageing. This scholarship is situated within the larger field of LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) ageing and highlights the challenges to health and well-being that many transgender adults experience as they age. In this chapter we will briefly summarise the empirical landscape concerning the well-being of transgender older
Written by an interdisciplinary collective of authors, this powerful book documents the largely unknown histories and politics of trans lives, activisms and culture across the post-Yugoslav states.
The volume sheds light on a diversity of gender embodiments and explores how they have navigated the murky waters of war, capitalism and transphobia while forging a niche for themselves within the regional and transnational LGBTQ movements.
By unleashing the knowledge concentrated in trans lives, this book not only resists trans erasures in Eastern Europe, but also underscores the potential for survival, self-transformation, and engagement in politically challenging circumstances.
with community methods of care beyond the transgender community, and findings show that community care for older, ill and disabled transgender people is undertaken in the most part within the “social circle that exists around the care receiver” (Johnson, 2001). Johnson discusses the importance of education and training about transgender issues for all carers of transgender people. Importantly, she emphasises the need to see transgender people who are care recipients as active agents: “transgendered people could have fought (in one way or another) all their
Personality disorder diagnosis in transgender people Personality disorders are considered a highly stigmatising psychiatric diagnosis ( Bonnington and Rose, 2014 ), with many critics arguing for the construct to be removed due to harms associated with having this label ( Watts, 2019 ; Hartley et al, 2022 ). For transgender people, being diagnosed with a personality disorder can have significant consequences. This should not preclude access to gender-affirming treatments (such as hormones therapy or surgery) but may be used as rationale to withhold these from
Introduction Despite Home Office ( 2019 ) reports indicating an annual increase of police-recorded transphobic hate crimes, criminologists have been slow to investigate, interrogate and respond to this social and criminal phenomenon. Although academic interest in hate crime has flourished, particularly within the last two decades, research has tended to focus on racist, Islamophobic and homophobic hate crime ( Bowling, 1999 ; Mason, 2005 ; Awan and Zempi, 2017 ; James and Smith, 2017 ). Less is known about the experiences of transgender and non
involving also the politically influential Orthodox Church. In such a milieu, gender and sexuality serve as sites for displacing social anxieties and inequalities brought about by capitalist adjustments and economic devastation, which also shifted the gendered division of family labour and destabilised the traditional role of men as ‘breadwinners’. With this image in mind, it is not surprising that transgender people in North Macedonia face a high degree of invisibility. This is not only due to the gendered power relations and unequal distribution of resources but also
