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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Trans people"”.
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Transgender representations in television: a provisional study of trans people watching trans people on TV
<p>Transgender (or trans) voices have not been widely explored in media studies literature. This qualitative work seeks to add to emerging body of transgender media studies by examining via trans participants two recent programs broadcast in US television that feature trans characters and content. …
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Mangos with Chili: Two-Spirit, Queer and Trans People of Colour Performance as Social Movement Building
… with Chili (MWC) is a two-spirit, queer and trans people of color (2-QTPOC) performance arts cabaret based in the San Francisco Bay Area. This research focuses on MWC performance content and personal interviews with four of MWC’s artists: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Landa Lakes, Micha …
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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 …
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Trans sexuality: A phenomenological-hermeneutic enquiry into the sexuality of trans and non-binary people - with implications for the practice of existential-phenomenological counselling psychology and psychotherapy
Trans people are those people who are not content to remain the gender they were assigned at birth. They may identify as men, or as women, or outside of the gender binary. As part of establishing oneself in a different gender from that assigned at birth, trans people may consider many aspects of …
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Standing Trans Before the Law
<p>In the 1960s, trans people in the United States began asserting their rights, petitioning courts for name changes, updating sex markers on birth certificates and other identity documents, and confirming whether their marriages were legal. However, it was not until the mid-2000s that courts began …
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Politics of Refusal: Justice and Liberation for Black Trans Lives
… investigates the challenges faced by Black trans people. In this thesis, I will explore how protest is used to highlight and confront the obstacles faced by the Black trans community. I will also examine the cultural work of Black trans people and what they teach us. The Brooklyn Liberation …
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“Seeing the word ‘police’ can be a huge point of recoil”: a qualitative examination of trans people’s perceptions and questions of police legitimacy
This dissertation examines transgender people’s experiences and perceptions of police within Canada. Transgender people experience a wide variety of negative interactions with police, including disrespectful language, rude and inappropriate behaviour, verbal and physical harassment, and the denial …
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Navigating Ocha: LGBT Practitioners' Participation and Navigation of Lucumí
… the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Lucumí/Santería in New York City, with a focus on transgender people. This work uses qualitative interviews and ethnographic observations to look at how LGBT people navigate ritual space and people politics in Lucumí. As …
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In pursuit of resonance: Exploring sexed and gendered 'discord' and 'dissonance' in relation to the health and social welfare 'needs' of the transgender community
… the health and social welfare 'needs' of the transsexual/transgender community and how they have come to be recognised, understood and managed within interventions. It focuses on the way the 'needs' of 'trans' people have commonly come to be understood as grounded within a sexual and erotic …
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Abortion Beyond the Binary: Transgender people have historically been left out of abortion and reproductive health research. Now, two researchers are bringing their experiences to light.
… abortions and other reproductive healthcare, transgender people throughout the United States face a minefield of issues—from getting insurance coverage to dealing with medical providers who don’t know how to treat them, to weathering discrimination—but very little research exists on how bad …
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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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Making Transsexuality Impressive: Narrative Collage and the University of Minnesota Gender Clinic
Archival work in trans studies has a narrative problem. The desire to make trans stories positively politically-enabling erases the experience of trans people for whom the bad feelings of transition including depression, dysphoria, and suicidality cannot be overcome. This thesis takes up narrative …
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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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Consequences of the Conflation of ‘Sex’ and ‘Gender’ on Trans Healthcare
… of the most vulnerable identities, particularly transgender people and especially trans people of color. The eventual delivery of poor health outcomes for trans people first begins with the fundamental definitions for ‘sex’ and ‘gender’ in the medical literature, as well as the medical …
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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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Understanding the decision making process of beginning hormone therapy for trans individuals: a grounded theory study
Research indicates the trans population experiences significantly higher levels of mental health difficulties and suicidal ideation compared with the rest of the population. Existing literature relating specifically to psychological therapists is explored and four main gaps identified. These gaps …
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Gender Affirmative Monopoly: Who is "Trans* Enough" to Receive Gender Affirmative Treatment In Norway?
… monopoly of the National Treatment Center for Transsexualism, which covers gender affirmative treatment through universal health care in Norway. This thesis examines this topic in the context of a broader debate regarding trans* people’s rights in Norway. This debate, which took place in …
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Debunking the false dichotomy: Developing and applying trans quantcrit at the intersection of trans/non-binary identities and religious, secular, and spiritual engagement in college
<p>Discrimination towards people who identify as trans/non-binary (NB) is still extremely well documented and pervasive across many different demographics. Discussions on religious, secular, or spiritual (RSS) identities and trans/NB identities are often fraught with difficult conflicts between the …
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Locating Sex: the Rhetorical Contours of Transgender Anti-Discrimination Law
… aimed at ending discrimination against transgender people has been both critiqued as eliding the structural roots of discrimination and celebrated as an important visibility project that helps to highlight the struggles trans people face. Approaching law as an ongoing interaction where …
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Housing Insecurity and Suicidal Behavior Among Transgender and Gender-Expansive Young Adults
<p>Transgender and gender-expansive people (collectively referred to here as trans) attempt suicide and experience homelessness at much higher-than-average national rates, signaling the need for culturally responsive support. Strikingly, over 50% of trans people with experiences of homelessness …
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