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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Trans identity"”.
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Points of Refusal: An Arts-Based Exploration of the Medicalization of Mad Trans Identity
… discusses the impact of medicalization on transgender identity, examining how it enforces transphobic, white, abled, sane, cisgender, patriarchal norms, and effectively eugenics. By incorporating crip and trans theory, art, and embracing a mad aesthetic, I first highlight the concept of …
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Queer x Trans Memoir: In Sight of an Embodied History
<p>Are queer and trans identities innate or constructed? What constitutes a queer or trans identity? What prompts a person to identify with a particular queer or trans identity category? Prominent queer theorist Judith Butler contends that “There is no gender identity behind the expressions of …
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Re(born) this way
<p>In popular media and culture trans identity is typified by the “wrong body” narrative. The popularity of a “wrong body” serves to uphold a cisnormative standard and often works to reinforce the gender binary rather than destabilize it. Documentaries probing into trans lives utilize this …
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A Distillation of Resilience: Female Masculinity in Form
… and the ways in which female masculine identity has been dislodged from the category of trans identity. This research will shed light on the liminal spaces and magical places of identity in which masculine women dwell. The goal of this thesis is to determine and define common threads of …
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Rhetoric of trans* identities: public reactions to private confessions
… year 2015 provided a hotbed of discussion about trans* identities. Caitlyn Jenner’s public announcement of her identity as transgender shortly followed by Rachel Dolezal unveiling as a woman with Caucasian heritage. Using publically accessible interviews such as the Diane Sawyer interview with …
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Trans-masc tits: why not chop them off. Volume 2: the phenomenology of trans-masculine gender flux in performance
… states of gender flux from my perspective as a trans-masculine artist-performer, capturing my journey through an intimate lens of phenomenological practice as research. The work is presented in two volumes, a practice portfolio and a written discussion, to provide a discursive weaving between …
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Revisioning Popular Narratives of Trans Lives, 1952–1976
… and visual media created by or written about trans people in the United States prior to Stonewall. Grounded in research conducted at the Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria, the ONE Archives at the University of Southern California, the Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in GLBT …
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Standardizing Injustice in Transition-related Medicine?: An Institutional Ethnography of How Assessment Protocols Coordinate Inequitable Access to Hormones and Surgeries in Canada
Transgender (trans) people experience barriers to transition medicine such as cross-sex hormones and sex reassignment surgeries. In response, standardized care protocols, such as the World Professional Association of Transgender Health standards of care (WPATH-SOC), are recommended to improve gaps …
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A qualitative study exploring transgender youths’ experiences of using social media
… platforms, has created an opportunity for transgender individuals to seek out a common alternative identity that may reduce the societal pressure of fitting into a particular gender role dictated by biological sex. The developmental period that adolescents go through is accompanied by an …
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Transient Lives: Trans & Non-Binary People’s Encounters with the Harms of Work
… gaps in the existing literature surrounding trans people, vulnerability, and victimisation. The overarching objective of this study was to offer a revised account of the harms trans people encounter in relation to their work via a new theoretical framework which is informed by ultra-realist …
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Perceived identity change in the male partners of trans people, as a result of being in a trans relationship: a study utilising interpretative phenomenological analysis
… participation in a romantic relationship with a trans-person. This research looks specifically at the experience of cisgender partners who were unaware of their partner’s trans-identity at the start of the relationship. Therefore, people who have had to negotiate their identity within their …