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Journal articles on the topic "Transgender Historical Society"
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Pautunthang, N. "Historical Developments, Challenges, Legal Rights, and Current Status of Transgender Communities in India." RESEARCH REVIEW International Journal of Multidisciplinary 9, no. 4 (April 15, 2024): 32–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.31305/rrijm.2024.v09.n04.005.
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The presence of transgender groups in India holds considerable cultural and historical significance. Despite their longstanding presence in Indian society, comprehensive data on their socio-economic status remains scant, with the 2011 Indian Census marking a notable first step in enumerating the transgender population. This community grapples with multifaceted challenges, including familial rejection, limited educational and employment opportunities, and widespread discrimination. The prevailing social stigma and lack of acceptance often lead to exclusion from mainstream society, perpetuating cycles of poverty, illiteracy, and vulnerability. Addressing the complex challenges faced by transgender communities requires concerted efforts from policymakers, civil society, and the broader community to foster awareness, challenge societal norms, and implement inclusive policies that uphold their rights and dignity. Embracing diversity, promoting inclusivity, and fostering equitable opportunities are essential steps towards creating a society where transgender individuals can live with dignity, respect, and equal opportunities.
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Rotzinger, Kathryn. "Experiences of Transgender People in the Healthcare System: A Complex Analysis." University of Ottawa Journal of Medicine 8, no. 1 (May 7, 2018): 56–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.18192/uojm.v8i1.2390.
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A nursing perspective following McIntyre and McDonald’s framework was used to unpack the complex issue of challenges faced by transgender people in the Canadian healthcare system, considering historical, ethical, legal, social, cultural, political, and economic perspectives. Transgender people have unique healthcare needs which are often misunderstood or unaddressed by healthcare professionals, leading to poorer outcomes and inequities. Issues concerning transgender people are becoming a focus and a higher priority for society. This literature review reveals the complexity of this issue as the roots in historical, ethical, legal, social, cultural, political, and economic contexts are explored. A variety of barriers and facilitators exist to addressing and resolving this issue, including transgender people avoiding healthcare, intolerance, lack of knowledge and understanding, lack of healthcare provider training, media representation, and economic costs. The analysis of this issue can be used to inform resolution strategies to utilize facilitators and overcome barriers, including increasing awareness and knowledge, improving education and healthcare provider competency, and utilizing nurse leaders as advocates, role models, and agents of change. Improving care of transgender people is a nursing leadership priority. By implementing the suggested resolution strategies, the healthcare system can begin to move towards a more inclusive, understanding, and holistic model of care to improve healthcare access and outcomes for transgender people.
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Vicente, Marta V. "Transgender: A Useful Category?" TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 8, no. 4 (November 1, 2021): 426–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/23289252-9311032.
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Abstract This article seeks to start a discussion that may help us understand why the category “transgender,” created to include all trans* experiences, has excluded some. If “transgender” cannot fully include all trans* people, can it still be a useful category to adequately capture and analyze the lived experience of historical actors? It is in tracing back the genealogy of transgender, in the search for a name that could encompass the multiple and sometimes contradictory relationships between one's body and its social recognition, that we may attempt to discover why transgender has eclipsed terms such as transsexual and transvestite. The article first examines the parallels between recent debates in the historiographies of gender and transgender as terms that can express the complex social representation of bodies negotiated by language. Second, it studies how much a genealogy of transgender in the past reveals in fact a multiplicity of terms to express a realignment between body and a self that can be read by society. Ultimately, the author proposes the study of first-person narratives as the best way to comprehend the multiple terms used to express the diverse and sometimes contradictory identities an individual can embody.
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Carswell, Jeremi M., Ximena Lopez, and Stephen M. Rosenthal. "The Evolution of Adolescent Gender-Affirming Care: An Historical Perspective." Hormone Research in Paediatrics 95, no. 6 (2022): 649–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000526721.
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While individuals have demonstrated gender diversity throughout history, the use of medication and/or surgery to bring a person’s physical sex characteristics into alignment with their gender identity is relatively recent, with origins in the first half of the 20th century. Adolescent gender-affirming care, however, did not emerge until the late 20th century and has been built upon pioneering work from the Netherlands, first published in 1998. Since that time, evolving protocols for gender-diverse adolescents have been incorporated into clinical practice guidelines and standards of care published by the Endocrine Society and World Professional Association for Transgender Health, respectively, and have been endorsed by major medical and mental health professional societies around the world. In addition, in recent decades, evidence has continued to emerge supporting the concept that gender identity is not simply a psychosocial construct but likely reflects a complex interplay of biological, environmental, and cultural factors. Notably, however, while there has been increased acceptance of gender diversity in some parts of the world, transgender adolescents and those who provide them with gender-affirming medical care, particularly in the USA, have been caught in the crosshairs of a culture war, with the risk of preventing access to care that published studies have indicated may be lifesaving. Despite such challenges and barriers to care, currently available evidence supports the benefits of an interdisciplinary model of gender-affirming medical care for transgender/gender-diverse adolescents. Further long-term safety and efficacy studies are needed to optimize such care.
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Mishra, Akanksha. "Third Gender Rights: The Battle for Equality." Christ University Law Journal 5, no. 2 (July 1, 2016): 9–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.12728/culj.9.2.
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The identity of an individual is often determined by the moral dictates and judgments of the society. However, individuals who seek to challenge these with their personalities, sexual orientations and inclinations are often shunned, abandoned and treated as the “other”. Abandoned by families and ridiculed by negative stigmas, they are usually left with no other option, than resorting to begging or singing in weddings, to make a living. Even with such vulnerability to harassment and violence, their agony mostly remains unnoticed. This only indicates the extent of helplessness and neglect this community faces. Various rights granted to this community are seldom potent and welfare measures hibernate on paper. Though the Indian Constitution makes mighty promises prohibiting discrimination of all sorts, there exists ambiguity concerning the concept of gender and the effects that such a prohibition can have on third gender rights. With the Supreme Court taking a proactive step in the NALSA judgment, there has been significant attention drawn towards transgender rights, which will be examined in the paper subsequently. Highlighting the historical growth of the transgender people and analyzing their position in jurisdictions across the world, this research paper aims to shed light on the murky world of suffering and discrimination this community has been relegated to in India. Despite some positive developments that have contributed to increased awareness and recognition of their plight, major problems still plague this section of the society. In addition to the social and legal position of the transgender community and the judicial treatment of the same, the paper also seeks to act as an expose when it comes to make-believe cases of being transgender.
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Coppola, Marianna, and Gabriele Oliva. "Gender patterns of transgender people: a historical, cultural and sociological reconstruction through the experience of social and health professionals." Academicus International Scientific Journal 30 (July 2024): 163–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.7336/academicus.2024.30.12.
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This paper aims to illustrate the research path and methodological aspects of the study of sexual normativity with reference to a specific population of the LGBTQ+ universe, namely binary and non-binary transgender people in the Italian context through the analysis and historical reconstructions of the path of gender affirmation, in daily life and in the narrative proposed by the main old media. The decision to orient the focus of the analysis on transnormativity is related to the observation of an important research gap present in the scholarly literature, which has so far analyzed the processes of the construction of sexual normativity in mainstream society - and, as a result, has produced several studies and theorizing on heteronormativity and the male homosexual population (or homonormativity) - while conspicuously leaving out noncisgenderist sexual identities (transgender, genderfluid, agender, etc.). Following up on these premises, specifically, the following research questions were set: what are the reference gender models that guide and direct the identity construction of transgender people? And what are those of binary and non-binary people? how do these models reflect aspects attributable to mainstream sexual normativity (mainly heteronormativity and cisgenderism) furthermore, what differences are evident among these reference models in relation to various socio-demographic and identity aspects (how do they vary according to age, educational qualification, gender identity status, and sexual orientation). In order to try to answer the questions of the research design, a survey was conducted, using a biographical approach, through the administration of semi-structured interviews with privileged witnesses working in the field of gender reaffirmation pathways in the medical, clinical and legal fields, in order to reconstruct the chronological and cultural stages of the construction of transnormativity from the enactment of State Law 164/1982 to the present day. In contrast to this perspective, new, increasingly fluid, complex, and differentiated demands are emerging, which have generated debate on the one hand and tension both with mainstream society and within the LGBTQ+ community on the other. This further fragmentation of cis-heteronormative criteria could, for some, pose a threat to the achievements and social positions acquired through years of struggle, demands and construction of their own sexual normativity.
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Zurn, Perry. "Waste Culture and Isolation: Prisons, Toilets, and Gender Segregation." Hypatia 34, no. 4 (2019): 668–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hypa.12498.
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After reviewing the use of isolation in US prisons and public restrooms to confine transgender people in solitary cells and single‐occupancy bathrooms, I propose an explanatory theory of eliminative space. I argue that prisons and toilets are eliminative spaces: that is, spaces of waste management that use layers of isolation to sanctify social or individual waste, at the outer and inner limits of society. As such, they function according to an eliminative logic. Eliminative logic, as I develop it, involves three distinct but interrelated mechanisms: 1) purification of the social center, through 2) iterative segregation, presuming and enforcing 3) the reduced relationality of marginal persons. By evaluating the historical development and contemporary function of prisons and restrooms, I demonstrate that both seek to protect the gender binary through waves of segregation by sex, race, disability, and gender identity. I further argue that both assume the thin relationality of, in this case, transgender people, who are conceived of as impervious to the effects of isolation and thus always already isolable. I conclude that, if we are to counter the violence of these isolation practices, we not only need to think holistically about eliminative spaces and logic, but also to richly reconceptualize relationality.
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Chen, Xin. "Pressures on Chinas LGBT Community and the Role of the Media in Safeguarding the Rights of This Group." Communications in Humanities Research 32, no. 1 (April 26, 2024): 98–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.54254/2753-7064/32/20240021.
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Due to the different historical developments, there are significant differences between China and the West regarding culture and values. As a group that has always been sensitive, there is also a pronounced difference between how the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) group is treated in Chinese society and Western society. These differences include the aspects of social acceptance of the LGBT community, legal protections, as well as the pressures that they face from the family, workplace, and other levels. This research aims to conduct a comparative analysis of the status and treatment of the LGBT community in Chinese and Western societies, with a particular focus on the experiences of LGBT individuals in China. The study will investigate the challenges and discrimination faced by the LGBT community in China, including legal and social barriers to equality and inclusion. Additionally, the research will examine the ways in which LGBT individuals and activists in China are utilizing new media platforms to advocate for their rights and reduce stigma. Based on the findings, the study will propose recommendations for improving the social and legal protection of LGBT individuals in China, as well as strategies for increasing the visibility and representation of the LGBT community through media outreach and public education.
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Tian, Zhiwei, and Yu Liu. "A Study of the Feminization of Young Men's Dress in the Upper Class in the Late Qing Dynasty and the Early Republic of China." Asian Social Science 17, no. 9 (August 31, 2021): 25. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ass.v17n9p25.
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When the decree to cut pigtails and change clothing was introduced in the late Qing and early Republican periods, there were many clothing changes. The feminization of men's clothing was widely discussed at the time as a distinctive dress code trend. This article looks at the historical documents that documented this event and analyses the specific manifestations of this phenomenon by looking at the groups and regions where the feminization of men's clothing took place. The article analyses the phenomenon of men wearing women's clothing to blur their gender and explore the image of cross-dressing men in the society of the time and its meaning. Through the analysis of historical documents on the diverse, outward expressions of cross-dressing men, the fact that diversity in masculinity existed in that time is illustrated. This leads to further induction of the respective images of masculinity and a discussion of the various reasons behind this phenomenon. The article concludes with an attempt to reveal the motives that produced the feminization of men's dressing, both in terms of external social and internal causes, and to discuss whether the feminization of men's dressing in the late Qing Dynasty involved transgender identity the analysis of masculinity.
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Graves, Karen. "“So, You Think You Have a History?”: Taking a Q from Lesbian and Gay Studies in Writing Education History." History of Education Quarterly 52, no. 4 (November 2012): 465–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-5959.2012.00416.x.
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At first I thought he was a baseball fan from Cleveland. As he came closer I saw the cross on his blue and red cap, and I realized I had seen this guy before. I was staffing a GOHI exhibit at the Columbus gay pride parade. GOHI is the Gay Ohio History Initiative, a group of volunteers who formed a partnership with the Ohio Historical Society in 2006 to “preserve, archive, and curate Ohio's LGBT history and culture.” Interestingly, the “preeminent history preservation organization” in Ohio is serving as a model of collaboration for public educational institutions concerning lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) history. This may strike one as curious given that two out of three Ohio voters supported a constitutional ban on marriage equality in 2004 even though the state legislature had already adopted a similar measure. The state also does not prohibit employment or housing discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. Yet Columbus maintains a national reputation as a “gay-friendly” city, suggesting that the political terrain in Ohio is as mixed as ever. The old saw—“As goes Ohio so goes the nation”—still seems pertinent.
Books on the topic "Transgender Historical Society"
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Gay, Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender Historical Society. Gay and lesbian community, support and spirit: Selected periodicals and newsletters from the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,Transgender Historical Society. Woodbridge, CT: Primary Source Microfilm, 2005.
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(Firm), Primary Source Microfilm, ed. Selected periodicals and newsletters from the holdings of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender History Society, parts 1 thru 4. Woodbridge, CT: Primary Source Microfilm, an imprint of Thomson Gale, 2004.
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Selected periodicals and newsletters from the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society. Woodbridge, CT: Primary Source Microfilm, 2004.
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Michelson, Melissa R., and Brian F. Harrison. LGBTQ Life in America. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400678578.
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This indispensable book debunks common myths and misconceptions about the LGBTQ community while providing accurate information about LGBTQ people, their successes and shared history, and the current challenges they face in American society. This book provides readers with a clear and unbiased understanding of what it means to be LGBTQ in the United States in the 2020s. Beginning with the origins of LGBTQ identity and history, the book addresses the current status of the LGBTQ community; gender expectations and performance in American culture; transgender and non-binary identity; behaviors and outcomes associated with LGBTQ people; and, finally, diversity within the LGBTQ community. Utilizing authoritative sources and lay-friendly definitions and explanations, this work punctures myths, misconceptions, and incorrect assumptions about sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expectations and norms. In addition, it provides an illuminating record of the history of discrimination and mistreatment to which LGBTQ people have historically been subjected in the U.S. At a time when information itself is increasingly fraught in American political discourse, this book provides facts and context for the most important questions facing LGBTQ Americans, past, present, and future.
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Ditmore, Melissa Hope. Prostitution and Sex Work. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216002208.
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A fascinating overview of prostitution and sex work in the United States, from the Colonial era to today, examines the issue as it affects men, women, and transgender individuals of all races and classes. Prostitution and Sex Work is the first book since 1921 to offer a historic overview of this controversial topic—and what our views on it say about American society. Exploring key people, places, and events, the guide includes descriptions of the myriad variations of the sale of sex and of the venues where prostitution occurs, as well as recurring themes such as panics about sexually transmitted diseases and the ever-present issue of violence in the sex trade. After reviewing the history of prostitution and sex work over the past 400 years, the book offers detailed information about the legal context of prostitution in America during the last century. It focuses particularly on the period since prostitution was criminalized during a panic over "white slavery" in the early 20th century, drawing parallels with current "sex trafficking" topics. An appendix of materials produced by sex workers is especially informative for those wishing to truly understand both sides of the issue.
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Newton, David E. LGBT Youth Issues Today. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400678547.
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The increasing numbers of LGBT teenagers who choose to live their lives as "out" youth face unique issues within their schools, families, and communities. This book provides information that will help LGBT youth overcome their challenges and give non-LGBT youth a better understanding of sexual identities different from their own. While all youth are likely to face traumatic or stressful situations in their transition to adulthood, lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered (LGBT) youth face significant and specific challenges in their lives—a result of living in a society that has yet to accept or be comfortable with the idea of same-sex or other "non-heterosexual" attraction, especially among young people. LGBT Youth Issues Today: A Reference Handbook presents historical background on the topic, provides an up-to-date examination of the issues of concern to LGBT youth, and offers in-depth information and resources for further research. In addition to providing frank, accessible information about the problems, controversies, and solutions facing today's LGBT teenagers, the work contains a chapter of essays from informed individuals regarding same-sex relationships among youth, voicing the experiences and opinions of activists, social workers, psychologists, educators, parents of LGBT youth, and LGBT youth themselves. Also included is a chapter profiling about 20 individuals and organizations that have been involved in discussions about gay and lesbian youth, such as Tony Perkins, Kevin Jennings, Robert Parlin, the GLBT National Help Center, It Gets Better, Gay Lesbian Straight Educational Network (GLSEN), Family Pride Coalition, Out Scouts, Family Research Council, and the National Organization for Marriage (NOM).
Book chapters on the topic "Transgender Historical Society"
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Rashid, Amna, and Umar Rashid. "Constitutional and Legal Guarantees for Transgender in Pakistan: Reforms and Failures in Law." In Towards Gender Equality in Law, 79–110. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98072-6_5.
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AbstractTransgender individuals in Pakistan have been excluded from political and economic systems. In 2009, the Supreme Court of Pakistan for the first time recognised the unique gender identity of transgender individuals. This Order initiated reforms for the protection of the rights of transgender individuals and compelled various government departments to devise guidelines for the issuance of National Identification Cards (NICs) to all transgender individuals and created a legal framework for their full and equal participation in society. This chapter will analyse the effectiveness of this reform project in relation to other legal rules and entrenched social norms. It will start with an analysis of the historical discriminatory laws which led to a marginalisation of transgender individuals, and evaluate whether the recent developments in law, particularly the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act 2018, are sufficient to protect the rights of transgender in Pakistan.
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Goodrich, Micah James. "Maimed Limbs and Biosalvation." In Trans Historical, 267–96. Cornell University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501759086.003.0012.
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This chapter focuses on rehabilitation politics in relation to the poem called Piers Plowman. It considers Piers Plowman's discussion of debilitated bodies and maimed limbs to critique bodily integration into a social and salvific community. In terms of Piers Plowman, transgender and disability studies in conversation with medieval legal theory and literature show how bodily mutilation and alteration are both created and repudiated by institutional powers. The chapter notes how misshapen bodies regarded in the poem are bodies that do not conform to the shape of society. Moreover, Piers Plowman challenges the work of salvation as a medieval institution since the health of the soul and social body became integrated.
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Giordano, Simona. "Clinical Guidance on the Management of Gender Diverse Youth." In Children and Gender, 67—C5P94. Oxford University PressOxford, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192895400.003.0005.
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Abstract This chapter provides an overview of the current international guidance and of how it has evolved over time. This has not only historical significance; it also shows that treatment for gender dysphoria in young people is not novel. This chapter focuses on two main international guidelines: the World Professional Association for Transgender Health Standards of Care, and the US Endocrine Society Practice Guideline and on how these have evolved. More recent Australian clinical guidelines will be mentioned where relevant. We will see that there has been an evolution in understanding what it means to help or to benefit someone who is gender diverse. Clinical approaches have goals: these can be explicit or implicit. We will discuss some of the goals that some clinical approaches have or have had, and how these have evolved (or involved) over time.
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Kulick, Don. "Transgender Sex Work in Brazil: Historico-Cultural Perspectives." In Transgender Sex Work and Society, 236–63. Harrington Park Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.17312/harringtonparkpress/2017.11.tsws.015.
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Travers. "Sport, Transgender Athletes, and Nonbinary Experience." In The Oxford Handbook of Sport and Society, 924—C48.P197. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197519011.013.49.
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Abstract Transgender and nonbinary athletes experience significant obstacles to sport participation that are primarily related to prevalent sex-segregated and/or sex-differentiated institutions, spaces, and activities. Sport reflects and reinforces a Eurocentric, hetero-patriarchal binary sex system, and this requires the containment of women and nonbinary athletes who threaten to throw this social, economic, and political configuration into disarray, whether as individuals they are interested in doing so or not. This chapter provides an overview of literature relating to the experience of transgender and nonbinary people in sport, situates transgender participation in the broader context of modern sport as an historically specific formation, and provides an overview of scholarly debates about female eligibility policies that target transgender women and women with naturally higher testosterone levels than the so-called female norm.
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Tesch, Brian. "Best Practices in Shelter Provision." In Transgender Intimate Partner Violence, 202–23. NYU Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479830428.003.0008.
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Transgender individuals experience intimate partner violence (IPV) at rates similar to those of cisgender individuals. Despite this, many present-day emergency IPV shelters are ill-equipped to respond to the needs of transgender survivors, in part because of a historically gendered focus on how society understands IPV. This chapter begins by discussing how feminist IPV theory inspired how IPV shelters respond to abuse, and how this ultimately shaped how they (and society as a whole) viewed IPV. Next, the chapter discusses some of the current policies and practices that many mainstream IPV shelters use that may be cisnormative by focusing on the needs of cisgender survivors over the needs of transgender survivors. Finally, the chapter discusses some practical changes that IPV shelters can implement in order to help better assist transgender survivors of IPV.
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Erickson-Schroth, Laura, and Benjamin Davis. "Gender, Medicine, and Psychology." In Gender. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780190880033.003.0004.
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This chapter focuses on the medical and psychological aspects of gender, beginning with a discussion on gender development. An unspoken assumption in much of the gender development work to date is the alignment of bodily sex with gender identity. Children who do not develop in accordance with societal expectations have historically been pathologized as not having achieved a critical developmental milestone. Only recently has transgender identity begun to be considered a valid developmental trajectory. Historically, transgender children have presented with heightened levels of depression and anxiety, among other signifiers of distress, including poor school performance and poor social integration. However, recent studies have shown that transgender children match their cisgender peer groups when raised in affirmed settings. The chapter then defines gender dysphoria, which is characterized by significant distress or difficulty functioning related to an incongruence between assigned sex and experienced gender identity. It also traces the history of treatment for transgender people, including medical and surgical interventions. Finally, the chapter considers the role gender has played over time in the diagnosis and treatment of mental health concerns.
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Ganguli, Dibyendu. "GLOBALISATION OF RAINBOW ACTIVISM TOWARDS THE HUMAN RIGHTS DIRECTION OF THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY." In Futuristic Trends in Social Sciences Volume 2 Book 2, 125–36. Iterative International Publishers, Selfypage Developers Pvt Ltd, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.58532/v2s2ch13.
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Rainbow activism is a human rights movement of the LGBTQ community against discrimination and socio-sexual inequality. It is a global socio-political and socio-legal movement aimed at achieving equal opportunities, equal rights, equal benefits, human dignity, and the freedom of choice. The rainbow is the symbol of sexual and gender equality and the symbol of unity. Over the last three decades, global activist and advocating networks centred on the geopolitics of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) rights have proliferated. On the one hand, there has been a globalisation of human rights, with human rights becoming a key criterion for measuring nations' "progress." On the other hand, same-sex sexualities as identities have been globalised. Sexual orientation and gender identity are finally getting recognition and depiction in global forums recently. The historical examination of the LGBTQ movement in comparison to the civil rights struggle and local case studies provides new context and significance to the trajectories of misplaced possibilities. In terms of advancing toward greater recognition of LGBTQ rights worldwide, these movements have the potential to clash rather than complement one another. Opposition to cosmopolitan claims to LGBTQ rights is frequently rooted in communitarian claims based on the language of a people's right to self-determination. However, the paper argues primarily through content analysis that, the discourse of equality under the law can and has been successfully used by local LGBTQ rights activists. This has been achieved through several strategies, including the recognition of multiple and intersecting identities; the development of a discourse in which global legal standards become part of the "essence of a people," and the re-creation of an authentic past within the context of a national community. As a result, LGBTQ rights activists can now move seamlessly between local and global discourses. Finally, the paper concludes that LGBTQ rights struggles are most effective when they fight not only for the protection of rights for individuals based on the universal declaration of human rights but also for incorporation at the level of community through socio-political discussion within the larger society.
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Sterling, Rogena. "‘Janet and John’: Intersex Invisibility in the New Zealand Education Curriculum." In Sexual Education Around the World - Past, Present and Future Issues [Working Title]. IntechOpen, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.1001475.
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Even since I grew up and entered the New Zealand schooling system, we only learnt about a social system including 'Janet' and 'John' - female and male. As far as the curriculum went, nothing else existed. Though the education system now includes 'rainbow education' under ‘health’ (sometimes tied into the physical education part of the curriculum), it does not extend beyond that. It continues to enforce intersex as a pathology, an anomaly. Outside of this very small component, intersex does not exist. The Western education system has excluded intersex and transgender existence and belong in society even though historically they were part of society and still exist today, though largely invisible. The chapter will first explore brief history of social existence and belonging. Then it will consider who is represented in the curriculum in New Zealand at present. Lastly, it will consider some proposals of what changes are required to ensure that Intersex are represented in the curriculum as equal status as male or female.
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Key, Aidan. "So Many Trans Kids—What’s Going On?" In Trans Children in Today's Schools, 7–28. Oxford University PressNew York, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190886547.003.0002.
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Abstract Chapter 1 of Trans Children in Today’s Schools gives us an introduction to the increasing presence and visibility of gender-diverse children today, provides historical background for the societal treatment of transgender people, and explores the shift in our understanding of gender identity and development in children. As we respond to this shift toward better supporting trans children in their development, we struggle to fully embrace a gender-expansive approach as it impinges upon restrictive, yet familiar, gender norms. This chapter presents the author’s extensive experience working with parents and educators to improve K–12 practices for gender inclusion, and poses the question which frames the entire book: How do we create a gender-inclusive environment for every child and what are the implications for schools today?