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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Transgender Women"”.
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"I am Not a Hijra": Transgender Women Claiming Citizenship in South India
… assigned male at birth), newly emerging transwomen, and Dosti, a large NGO in Bangalore, India, this dissertation argues that transgender women claim citizenship by drawing distinct borders between themselves and hijras and positioning hijras as undeserving of the rights of citizenship, thus …
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EMOTIONAL BONDS AND FAIRNESS EXPERIENCES BETWEEN TRANSGENDER WOMEN AND THEIR CISGENDER PARTNERS: AN INTERPRETATIVE PHENOMENOLOGICAL EXPLORATION
… within their communities and families. Transgender women including those of color are one of the most marginalized populations (Cornelius & Whitaker-Brown, 2017; Koken et al., 2009), experiencing high rates of abuse and negative mental health outcomes (Gamarel et al., 2014; Koken et al., …
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Sexual behavior following a diagnosis of acute HIV in men who have sex with men and in transgender women in the Sabes study in Lima, Peru
… were either men who have sex with men (MSM) or transgender women (TW) living in Lima, Peru and observed their sexual behavior patterns over a year following diagnosis of acute HIV. Participants had been randomly assigned to initiate ART either immediately or after six months. We followed …
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Changing her tune : how a transsexual woman claims a new identity through voice
… of a person's gender. For male-to-female transgender individuals (or transsexuals) the voice is one of the most difficult parts of the gender transition. Males have larger and heavier vocal apparatuses (larynx and vocal folds), which generally produce a lower sound. Transgender women can …
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Pedalando por direitos: vozes femininas no ciclismo
This work aims to analyze the role of cycling in women's empowerment, highlighting the intersections of gender and race. The study originated from the observation of the underrepresentation of women, especially Black and transgender women, in the cycling world. The research, conducted at the …
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How to Address the Inadequacies in the Protection of Transgender Female Refugees in Countries of Refuge?
… refugee system, the unique struggles faced by transgender female refugees in countries of refuge has remained silent. Although existing as places of refuge, host states have remained particularly hostile to these refugees. The term ‘transgender’ is still relatively new and this thesis aims to …
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Everything Is Drag: The Politics of Performing Beautiful Women in Cold War Chile
… changing ways Cold War Chilean cisgender and transgender women performed their femininity as part of racialized nationalist projects, analyzing laws and government documents, contemporary print media, television, film, literature, cabaret and theater performances, and oral histories and …
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The gender diversity gap in mathematics
… Chilean 10th graders, providing new evidence on transgender and non-binary students using longitudinal data that follows students from 4th to 10th grade. Using rich administrative data, we estimate within-school models with lagged outcomes and propensity-score weights to ensure robust …
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Prevalence of asymptomatic sexually transmitted infections: a retrospective review of screening data from Desmond Tutu HIV Centre clinical trial cohorts from 2012 to 2017, Cape Town
… as female, 198 (31%) males, 29 (4.5%) transgender women and 01 (0.2%) transvestite. Median age was 20 years (IQR: 18-24), with the 15-24-year age category contributing 77% to the cohort. Laboratory testing diagnosed 239 (37.4%) people with STI infections in this cohort; only 28 (11.7%) …
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A Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis on Transgender Athletes in the English News Media
This thesis studies present-day discourses on transgender athletes in the English news media. It defines discourses as linguistic activities as well as social practices that are in a dialectic relationship with the material world. Discourses are seen as powerful tools for spreading ideologies, and …
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PERCEPTUAL REPRESENTATION OF SPEAKER GENDER
… varying gender identities (e.g., non-binary, transgender men, and transgender women). Read utterances from the corpus were used in an auditory free classification paradigm, in which listeners categorized the speakers on perceived general similarity and gender identity. Cluster and …
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Inequities in access to mental health care at intersections of race/ethnicity, gender identity, and gender modality: An application of Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (MAIHDA)
Transgender populations, and particularly transgender women of color, are burdened by high rates of both mental illness and healthcare avoidance. Despite this, research examining the patterns of non-use of mental healthcare within this community is lacking, and has further suffered due to the …
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Community-led study of access to antiretroviral therapy and viral load testing.
… including men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender women (TGW) experience intersecting vulnerabilities: the biomedical demands of living with HIV alongside stigma, criminalisation, and social exclusion. Despite global commitments to equity, existing research in West Africa has largely …
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The Health Status of Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Adults
<p>Contemporary, empirically-based knowledge of transgender health is scant and lacks understanding of physical health, health problems or impairments, chronic health conditions, and the impact of individual factors known to affect health outcomes in other vulnerable populations such as …
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ThemTech: Digital Menstrual Tracking Practices Among Transgender, Non-Binary and Gender Diverse Users
… of digital menstrual tracking practices among transgender, non-binary, and gender-diverse users, broadening the scope of sociotechnical studies (STS) to investigate how disaggregated populations affect the producer-consumer metric. Utilising the collective methodological framework pioneered by …
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ThemTech: Digital Menstrual Tracking Practices Among Transgender, Non-Binary and Gender Diverse Users
… of digital menstrual tracking practices among transgender, non-binary, and gender-diverse users, broadening the scope of sociotechnical studies (STS) to investigate how disaggregated populations affect the producer-consumer metric. Utilising the collective methodological framework pioneered by …