Top Research Papers on Transgender

Indian law, in general, revolves practically around the rights and duties of binary genders of male and female, based on a person’s sex assigned by birth, which permits gender system, including the law relating to marriage, adoption, inheritance, succession, taxation and in matters of welfare legislation as well. Social exclusion and discrimination on the ground of gender stating that one does not conform to the binary gender does prevail in India. Transgender people, in general, face multiple forms of oppression in this country. Discrimination is high at an alarming scale, more particularly i...

How cyberspace and mass media empowers transgenders by overcoming offline impediments related to their gender and awaking common masses vis-à-vis the issues transgender face due to theirGender identity is examined.

In 1980, LDS authorities used the term “transsexual” for the first time publicly when they prohibited “transsexual operations” in their official General Handbook of Instructions. They made clear that “members who have undergone transsexual operations must be excommunicated” and that “after excommunication such a person is not eligible for baptism.” Such harsh policies were rooted in a broader ambience of strict boundary enforcement of a male–female gender binary and patriarchal hierarchy. This gender-based power structure relied (and still relies) on biologically and theologically essential cl...

What special user research and design considerations are needed to build a website that enhances the health information seeking experience for transgender people are explored.

Winner of the Marilyn R. Waldman Award for Best Undergraduate Essay in the Department of Comparative Studies

Relative to cisgender people, transgender individuals not only are at an elevated risk of experiencing at least one form of physical or sexual violence, but also at an increased risk of polyvictimization: that is, exposure to multiple types of violence over the life course. Given that polyvictimization increases vulnerability to adverse mental and physical health sequelae, there is a pressing need to identify which sociodemographic subgroups of transgender people are at greater risk of polyvictimization. Understanding these risk profiles will have important implications for developing transgen...

This study analyzes the challenges and future of transgender issues in Malaysia as well as the views of Islam and Science to find solutions in addressing this issue. Transgender is a sense of personal identity and gender that contradict birth sex, with or without genital conversion. Unlike sexual orientation, transgender people are not necessarily homosexual but may bisexual or heterosexual. Many factors have contributed to these situations and there is also a dispute over the issue. In Malaysia, Islam and Christianity banned sex conversion meanwhile other religions accepted it. This study app...

Pardo, Seth T. (2010) 'Queering Transgender: Towards a Sociologyof Transgender', Journal of Sex Research, First published on: 20 May 2010 (iFirst) Organized around the central tenet that the binary model of gender identityconceptualization is vastly limited for understanding transgender,

It’s not often that the editor of a scholarly journal has to keep revising the introduction to a special issue simply to stay abreast of new developments relevant to the topic under consideration, but that indeed has been the case with “The Transgender Issue.” Two recent events, both of which took place between the first and second drafts of this essay, call attention to the timeliness of the work collected in this volume. In her discussion of the politicization of intersexual identity, “Hermaphrodites with Attitude,” Cheryl Chase notes that the goal of abolishing medically unnecessary cosmeti...

The shifting fortunes of the term transgender since the early 1990s testify to the faultlines and methodological impasses in the theorization of gender across numerous disciplines. At the same time transgender marks the forging and transformation of alliances and collectivities in political activism. Transgender is one of the latest in a series of terms which, in the social sciences, have sought to name counter-normative materializations of gender on individual bodies, through practices of gender-crossing either in matters of dress and presentation, and/or in terms of body modification. Transg...

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American School Counselor Association (ASCA) Position School counselors recognize all students have the right to be treated equally and fairly with dignity and respect as unique individuals, free from discrimination, harassment and bullying based on their real or perceived gender identity and gender expression. School counselors work to safeguard the well-being of transgender and gender-nonconforming youth.

This book provides a crucial resource for readers who are investigating trans issues. It takes a diverse and historic approach, focusing on more than one idea or one experience of trans identity or trans history. Transgender: A Reference Handbook is a go-to resource about the transgender experience. The book takes contemporary as well as historic aspects into consideration. It looks at ancient indigenous cultures that honored third, fourth, and fifth gender identities as well as more contemporary ideas of what "transgender" means. Notably, it focuses not only on Western medical ideas of gende...

ABSTRACT This paper explores key issues in relation to transgender and genderqueer experiences. It aims to: (1) to delink dualisms such as sex/gender, body/mind to suggest the inadequacy of locating gender identity through the “felt sense of self” in transgender studies; (2) to suggest a genderqueer perspective in reinterpreting trans subjectivity through self-ethnography. This paper first suggests a theoretical rethinking of limitations in transgender studies, then challenges the mandatory stable perception of gender and gender identity, and argues that the becoming of a genderqueer person in...

Abstract:The current study investigated the service access pathways of transgender youth at a mental health clinic. Demographic and service information from youth (aged 17–25) at a Canadian mental health clinic (n = 1,504) was collected. Four separate chi-square analyses were conducted to measure potential differences in service access between cisgender and gender diverse clients (those identifying as transgender, gender queer, non-binary, or other). Compared to cisgender clients, transgender and gender diverse clients were significantly more likely to self-refer for treatment. These findings ...

Anosh Irani’s book The Parcel highlights the difficulties faced by female prostitutes and transgenders Madhu, Gurumai and Padma as they try very hard to locate their identity and lead their life in Bombay. The story of these transgenders delves into the struggles they face within their family who is not ready to accept their identity and in outside world facing humiliations and misfortunes. This article provides a nuanced look at the impact of identity crisis on transgender individuals, highlighting the ongoing struggle for many female prostitute and transgenders to find an identity where they...

The current study investigated the service access pathways of transgender youth at a mental health clinic. Demographic and service information from youth (aged 17–25) at a Canadian mental health clinic (n = 1,504) was collected. Four separate chi-square analyses were conducted to measure potential differences in service access between cisgender and gender diverse clients (those identifying as transgender, gender queer, non-binary, or other). Compared to cisgender clients, transgender and gender diverse clients were signifi cantly more likely to self-refer for treatment. These fi ndings highlig...

ATS2001 indicates that participants are satisfied with the results of sex reassignment surgery while simultaneously being critical of the medical profession, making a unique contribution to the extant literature.

One of the issues that have been considered in the public sphere today is the issue of the transgender phenomenon. Transgender is related to the problem of gender identity. It refers to the condition in which the perpetrators identify their identity and gender differently from their sex biologically. It's caused by dissatisfaction and incompatibility between their body and soul. The term transgender might not be so familiar in Indonesia. However, to indicate that phenomenon, some of the people called them "waria”, “priawan” or “tomboy". Generally, their existences were still hard to be accepte...

The laws in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam promote equality for all citizens and refer to ‘persons’ rather than ‘men’ or ‘women’. However, because of traditional gender norms, transgender people in Vietnam are facing severe stigma and discrimination in public, in schools, at home and in the workplace (CCIHP 2011; Hoang 2012; ICS 2015; iSEE 2013). Parents, teachers and policemen are among the most common perpetrators (CCIHP 2011, 2012a, 2012b). Before 1975, homosexuality and transgenderism were considered ‘social diseases’, ‘social evils’, and were targets for elimination in government healt...

Three clusters of findings related to the common processes of transgender identity development are presented, meaning that participants weighed their internal gender experience with considerations about their available resources, coping skills, and the consequences of gender transitions.

The packaging of a book – its peritextual materials including front cover, blurb, acknowledgements, afterword, and author notes – provides information that can contribute to a potential reader’s decision whether or not to purchase, borrow, or read the story it encases. As such, the choices made by authors, illustrators, editors, and publishers regarding books’ peritextual features can offer important insights into the spaces books are intended to occupy within their contemporary market. This article examines the peritextual materials of a broad range of British and American transgender young a...

The purpose of this article is to provide a critical review of current literature regarding microaggressions against transgender persons. The authors discuss existing microaggression taxonomies for transgender populations and identify gaps in this literature. The heterogeneity of transgender identities are addressed along with microaggression experiences. The authors propose new themes that may be considered for further conceptualization, along with implications for research and practice.

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The purpose of this article is to reflect on a case study highlighting the experiences of a trans woman engaging in sexual and reproductive health and rights spaces. It is through this woman's experience that we begin to decipher and illustrate what it means to be a trans woman in post-apartheid South Africa. Core identity issues inherent in the transitioning phase are explored throughout this article. Curiously, trans people have remained an enigma to this day due to their relative invisibility, even within the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersexed community. Thus, this article h...

This chapter sketches out trans linguistics as an emerging framework for research on language in populations defined by their deviation from gender norms. Although queer linguistics has always been concerned with both sexual and gender (non)normativity, some early queer linguistic analyses of transgender or otherwise gender-variant populations were limited by the absence of openly trans scholars and distinctively trans analytic perspectives. Trans linguistics, by contrast, centers trans practices and subjectivities not as rare exceptions, but as central to any understanding of gender. Three do...

Information is lacking on how many transgender persons in the United States are infected with HIV, but data from some jurisdictions suggest that HIV diagnosis rates among transgender persons are substantially greater than the overall HIV diagnosis rate.

The world of persons who identify as transgendered is complex making its representation in an article challenging. This article represents work done to raise awareness among all health professionals about the lives and experiences of transgendered persons, who receive little coverage in our textbooks, professional journals, or student experiences. Transgendered lives cannot be simply summed up as a community of people who feel like they are “in the wrong body.” Their experiences, issues, and identities are complex, but worthy of the time, energy, patience, and caring it takes to learn about th...

This paper examines practices of care within transgender support and self-help groups. Its aim is to widen the focus of work into practices and meanings of care by bringing an under-researched social group to the analysis of caring practices. The paper draws on qualitative research data to substantively explore transgender practices of care in relation to support groups and self-help organizations. Findings indicate that care is identified as a key value within transgender movements and education is articulated as an `ethic of care'. Critiques are brought to bear on medical understandings and ...

The literature has shifted from a pathology model to a minority stress model of health disparity and more transgender people have been able to access careers as health professionals or researchers in recent years.

Il existe diverses facons de donner suite au desir d’enfantement des personnes transgenre. Des arguments ethiques militent en faveur d’une preservation de la fertilite pour cette population ; ce sont les memes que ceux avances pour promouvoir l’homoparentalite. Les enfants paraissent s’adapter sans mal a l’identite transgenre d’un de leurs parents, les problemes eventuels procedant plutot d’un conflit au sein du couple parental, ou d’une discrimination de la part de leur environnement. La legislation de nombreux pays ne reconnait le changement de sexe que si la personne qui la demande a subi u...

Because transgender issues are not often openly discussed, little is known about the transgender community and its information needs. Yet, people who are dealing with transgender issues may have pressing needs. In ongoing focus group research we are exploring the ways in which members of the community have sought to meet their own information needs. En raison du fait que les problemes transgenres sont rarement abordes ouvertement, on connait peu de choses sur la communaute transgenre et sur ses besoins informationnels. Cependant, les individus qui sont confrontes aux problemes transgenres peuv...

This thesis contains an analysis of transgender characters in games. The method for selecting the characters was based on the importance of the character in the game with the requirement that the g ...

Abstract Our aim in this qualitative study was to explore the meaning and experiences of transgender youth in their everyday interactions. Participants included 24 transgender youth from Yazd and Isfahan Cities (Iran). We selected participants through purposeful sampling method. Research data were collected through semi-structured interviews. The interview transcripts were analyzed using theoretical coding techniques. The results showed that transgender people like to present their favorite identity in behaviors, wearing and social appearances, their social and domestic acceptance is deferred ...

The transgender woman, a person who identifies and performs in femininity, has increasingly looked for vocal therapy due to gender incongruence, and vocal therapy is seen as positive, for working on vocal potentialities, self-perception, and self-acceptance.

UNC Campus Health staff welcomes and affirms students of all gender identities and sexual orientations. We recognize that transgender and gender queer students have health concerns that are often the same as all UNC students. Some health issues may be unique and require a greater understanding of transgender student experiences or require transgender-specific information or programs. Many providers have completed continuing medical education about providing care to transgender patients and many have also attended UNC?s Safe Zone and Safe Zone Challenge trainings. When you make an appointment, ...

Prefer male pronouns, female pronouns, or gender nonspecific pronouns such as ze, hir, or hirself. Choose to change their names and/or gender markers. Choose to pursue hormone therapy, surgical intervention, or electrolysis to outwardly reflect their gender identity. Engage in binding, packing, enhancing, or tucking to outwardly reflect their gender identity. Conform to societal expectations about gender expression.

The purpose of this article is to reflect on a case study highlighting the experiences of a trans woman engaging in sexual and reproductive health and rights spaces. It is through this woman’s experience that we begin to decipher and illustrate what it means to be a trans woman in post-apartheid South Africa. Core identity issues inherent in the transitioning phase are explored throughout this article. Curiously, trans people have remained an enigma to this day due to their relative invisibility, even within the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersexed community. Thus, this article h...

This essay considers the events of the campaign to add protection against discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression in DeKalb, Illinois in September 2000 in terms of queer theory and public argument by isolating a set of episodes that bring the reader closer to the experiences of transgender citizens who act in a public culture.

In this interview-based study, we investigated the common social experiences and minority stressors related to being transgender. It is one of two articles that resulted from a grounded theory analysis of interviews with 17 participants who claimed a variety of transgender identities (e.g., cross-dresser, transman, transwoman, butch lesbian) and were from different regions in the United States. The interview was centered on how participants’ identities influenced their lives across different interpersonal contexts. Participants described developing a more complex understanding of gender becaus...

Silappathikaram is the first Tamil epic. In this epic that is written by Ilangovadikal, there are records of transgender people living on the margins of society. As Tolkappiyar has recorded transgender people as masculinity challenged, Ilangovadikal too referred transgender as masculinity challenged. Silappathikaram talks about ‘Pedik Koothu (folk play)’ which can only be played by transgender people. Madurapathi, the deity of the Pandyas, one of the three crowned Kings, is understood to be in the bisexual transgender form. Silappathikaram beautifully captures the transcendental imagery of tra...

Act 2, scene 1 of A Midsummer Night’s Dream has the artisan-performers gather in the forest so that their play parts might be distributed. Much of the scene’s comedy is generated by Bottom’s absurd desire to assume all the available roles. Having already been awarded the part of Pyramus, he offers an impromptu audition demonstrating how he might also fulfill the part of Pyramus’s lover, Thisbe, beginning with the words: “I’ll speak in a monstrous little voice: ‘Thisne, Thisne!’” (1.2.48–49). That Bottom employs “‘Thisne’” instead of “‘Thisbe”’ represents one of the Dream’s cruxes, and this, as...

UNC Campus Health staff welcomes and affirms students of all gender identities and sexual orientations. We recognize that transgender and gender queer students have health concerns that are often the same as all UNC students. Some health issues may be unique and require a greater understanding of transgender student experiences or require transgender-specific information or programs. Many providers have completed continuing medical education about providing care to transgender patients and many have also attended UNC?s Safe Zone and Safe Zone Challenge trainings. When you make an appointment, ...

With the increased publication of books featuring LGBTQ2S+ characters and issues, there is an opportunity for the reader to acquire a greater understanding of various LGBTQ2S+ experiences. This article focuses on ten books for children ages eight to twelve that include transgender characters. The books are as follows: Lily and Dunkin; The Boy in the Dress; Sapphire the Great and the Meaning of Life; George; Gracefully Grayson; Zenobia July; A Boy Named Queen; The Pants Project; The Other Boy; and My Life as a Diamond. This article offers a brief synopsis of the ten selected books and a discuss...

Ritha Smith, assistant superintendent, and Seth Hanson, principal, are faced with a difficult decision. Taylor Harper is a transgender student who identifies as male and is openly attracted to females. Taylor’s parents, Lane and Morgan Harper, are lesbians; they are fully supportive of their child’s identification and are well versed in their legal rights. Madison Booth is in Physical Education [PE] class and shares a locker room with Taylor. She and her parents question her safety and security in the locker room. Ritha and Seth must consider the policy and rights for transgender, homosexual, ...

It is found that 6.6% of FtM transgender patients undergoing top surgery had an elevated risk of breast cancer, with 1.2% of patients having a greater than 2 times risk of Breast cancer.

The recent visibility of transgender lives demonstrates the dawning of a new period in the potential to include transgender topics in sociology courses. The focus on transgender individuals, communities, and inclusive initiatives are gaining momentum on many public and private college and university campuses, awakening old and new curiosities, igniting student activists and advocates everywhere. Such developments provide an important opportunity for instructors who are motivated to create trans-friendly syllabi, courses, and classrooms. In this article, we briefly explore how transgender peopl...

Transgender people are currently excluded from full citizenship in the UK. However, this is being challenged by a number of transgender groups. Sexual and feminist models of citizenship provide useful alternatives to mainstream models of citizenship, sharing a considerable amount of ground with transgender citizenship. However, transgender citizenship differs from sexual and feminist models in various ways. This article examines the commonalties and divergences between transgender citizenship and sexual and feminist approaches to citizenship, and explores some of the issues emerging in the are...

Written for general audiences, this unprecedented book comprehensively answers many questions about being transgender with current experiential and scientific information, including the evidence for a biological transgender predisposition. With transgender people visibly achieving fame in entertainment, the literary world, and other arenas, increasing numbers of transgender people are choosing to publicly announce that they are transgender. All of this has brought transgender people and the associated issues of being transgender into mainstream discourse. The demand for fact-based, scientific...

A case report of first transgender couple from Kerala, India with successful pregnancy and delivery is presented.