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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"transgender people"”.
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Seeing the State with Transgender People: Gender, Caste, and Neoliberal Development in Kerala, India
This dissertation examines the entanglements of transgender identity and state power in contemporary Kerala, a southwestern state of India. It asks what trans-queer people can tell us about the changing shape of postcolonial developmentalist governance and the welfare state in the late-capitalist …
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Mental health of transgender people in Aotearoa/New Zealand: Inequities, minority stress, and protective factors
… Health Survey recruited a total of 1,178 transgender people aged 14 or older (Mage = 29.5) who lived in Aotearoa/New Zealand. This comprehensive survey included mental health measures from Aotearoa/New Zealand population-based surveys, as well as questions specific to experiences of being …
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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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Educating Queerness: An Exploration of Identity Construction Through the Schooling Experiences of Transgender and Non Binary Adults
<p>Transgender people and youth have been disproportionately denied their civil and human rights in educational and societal institutions. At the foundation of these actions and legislations that deny transgender people their rights is the rooted belief in the gender binary as a naturally …
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Gender Identity and the Family Story: A Critical Analysis
This research explored how transgender people and their partners experience the process of disclosing their gender identity, experiences of mental health, and how couple and family therapists can be helpful to relationships involving transgender people. The purpose of this study was to better …
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Being Transgender: Effects of Behaviour, Arousal and Wellbeing
… physiological arousal, and wellbeing of transgender men (female to male) in order to better understand the behaviours and feelings of this under-researched group and to investigate the influences that one’s gender identity and birth sex may have on various processes. Chapter 1 gives an …
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Trans-forming gym spaces: researching the barriers faced by transgender adults accessing UK gym facilities
Transgender people navigate a world that is heteronormative and cis- normative. Subsequently they are more likely to experience psychological health and wellbeing issues compared to their cisgender peers due to their differences. Despite queer research indicating sport and exercise as a cite for …
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Expectations and Experiences of Gender Affirming Healthcare in Transgender Individuals
… which aim to alleviate gender dysphoria in transgender patients by bringing their bodies into alignment with their gender identities. These treatments can include gender affirming hormone therapy (GAHT) and various surgeries. This research, which was influenced by PPI (patient and public …
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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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The Natural Mother of the Child
… and children, and microaggressions against transgender people.</p>
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PLAYING TRANSNESS: AN ANALYSIS OF MEANINGFUL TRANSGENDER REPRESENTATION IN VIDEO GAMES
Transgender media representation is generally plagued with problems, and rarely have I experienced transgender media representation where I feel seen, or where I feel as though it is made from a distinctly transgender-centric perspective. This dissertation develops a theorization of meaningful …
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Sistema prisional e transgêneros no Brasil: um debate necessário
… aims to reflect the problems in detention of transgender people in Brazil. For this purpose, initially, we face the difficulties of classification and determination of the object of study. This fact highlights the importance of analyzing the phenomenon of the gender binary pattern, emphasizing …
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Attitudes Toward Homosexuality at Private Colleges
… attitudes toward gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people from the point of view of heterosexual males who attend private institutions. The literature in regards to private institutional campus setting is very limited. Data was collected through the dissemination of the Gay, Lesbian, …
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THE TRANSGENDER EXPERIENCE
… research was to gain a better understanding of transgender people and allow participants to have a voice in describing the experience of those in the transgender community. This study was conducted utilizing qualitative analysis through individual interviews with six participants. One of 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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Transgender YouTubers and the Power of Coming Out: Existentialism, Gender Performance, and Self-Actualization
The transgender community has historically faced discrimination and oppression. However, the internet has emerged as a preeminent resource for transgender people to seek community and visibility, with YouTube acting as an especially valuable visual repository of self-representation. The present …
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School psychologists' knowledge of and attitudes towards transgender students
Transgender students face harassment and discrimination in schools, and those who experience such maltreatment are at a higher risk of attempting suicide and other negative outcomes. The National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) has called upon school psychologists to be advocates for …
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Multiple Axes of Social Location and Transpeople: Interrogating the Concept of "Intersectionality"
The experience of transgender people provides a unique opportunity to further our understanding of intersectionality, experienced and expressed through multiple axes of social location. Transpeople change genders in relation to androcentric, middle-class, whitenormative, and heterocentric cultural …
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Out of the Blue: A Mother's Memoir of Our Family's Transgender Experience
… OF THE BLUE: A MOTHER'S MEMOIR OF OUR FAMILY'S TRANSGENDER EXPERIENCE is a memoir about what it has been like to discover that the baby girl I gave birth to almost forty years ago, now identifies as a female to male transgender person. He began his transformation both physically and legally over …
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Seeing is Believing: Observing Trans Spirituality Through The Smith-Waite Tarot
… an environment that obscures the fact that transgender people exist beyond the medicalization of their bodies. To combat this there is a need to develop ways to visualize and imagine transness without requiring direct witness of the trans body. Rather than solely observing transgender …
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