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Charan, Gopal Singh, Raman Kalia, and Akashpreet Kaur. "Navigating gender journeys: Psychiatric perspectives on transgender sexuality." MRIMS Journal of Health Sciences 12, no. 2 (November 23, 2023): 120–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/mjhs.mjhs_116_23.
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Over the past few decades, society’s perception of transgender individuals has significantly transformed, leading to increased recognition and acceptance. However, despite these positive changes, transgender people have historically faced numerous challenges and stigmatization. This article delves into psychiatric perspectives on transgender sexuality and its impact on mental health. It emphasizes the importance of integrating psychiatrists into primary care to enhance engagement in outpatient behavioral health services for transgender and nonbinary adults. Gender identity and sexuality are interconnected aspects of human experience, and understanding transgender sexuality is essential for mental health professionals to provide effective support and care. Gender dysphoria, a psychological condition stemming from incongruence between gender identity and assigned sex, profoundly affects the mental health of transgender individuals, emphasizing the necessity of affirming and comprehensive mental health care. The significance of cultural factors and intersectionality in supporting transgender individuals and mental health professionals play a critical role in identity development by creating safe and supportive environments for exploration and self-acceptance. Affirmative approaches and treatment options, such as hormone replacement therapy and gender confirmation surgery, are discussed, stressing the importance of collaborative care involving medical and mental health professionals. Ultimately, this article underscores mental health professionals’ vital role in supporting transgender individuals’ mental well-being, fostering inclusivity, and contributing to more affirming society.
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Priola, Vincenza, Diego Lasio, Francesco Serri, and Silvia De Simone. "The organisation of sexuality and the sexuality of organisation: A genealogical analysis of sexual ‘inclusive exclusion’ at work." Organization 25, no. 6 (August 1, 2018): 732–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350508418790140.
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This article problematises sexual inclusion in the workplace by theorising the social and historical processes that underpin heteronormativity in organisations. Drawing on a genealogical analysis of sexuality and inclusion in four Italian social firms that support the work and social integration of disadvantaged individuals, the article provides an in-depth analysis of the historical conditions affecting the management of sexualities in organisations. The analysis exposes the fragility and contradictory character of the notion of inclusion by illustrating how efforts to ‘include’ are often grounded on normative principles. It also shows how heteronormativity works, in practice, to moderate different modalities of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer inclusion, recreating hierarchies and binaries within lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer individuals. The article discusses how the power of heteronormativity produces specific meanings of inclusion within which some lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer workers are included and normalised, and others remain excluded because they do not conform to normative conventions and flaunt their ‘diversity’. The necessity of taking a queer perspective on ‘inclusion’ that scrutinises the heteronormative logic is also discussed. The article concludes by shedding light on how, within a heteronormative regime shaped by neoliberal predicaments, ‘inclusive’ organisations might continue to exclude lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer individuals.
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Virtù, Ludovico V. "Displacing the Gender Binary Through Modes of Dis/Organizing: Sex Toys, Sexuality and Trans Politics." Politics and Governance 8, no. 3 (September 18, 2020): 321–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/pag.v8i3.3016.
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Scholars in sexuality and organization studies have highlighted the centrality of sexuality in organizational power and the ways in which sexuality is in/visibilized, controlled, violently exercised, normativized, and/or resisted in organizations. However, there is still little empirical research focusing on social-movement organizations that promote political change in transgender sexual cultures. With this article, I contribute a qualitative case study of a trans and non-binary do-it-yourself (DIY) sex-toy workshop. Drawing on organization, social-movement, and transgender studies, I develop the notion of ‘trans-organizing’ as a specific mode of organizing and ask: How does trans-organizing around sexuality displace the gender binary in the context of a DIY sex-toy workshop? My findings hint at three dis/organizing processes: dis/organizing language, embodiment, and knowledge sharing.
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Giuliani, Gaia. "The Body, Sexuality and Precarity." Feminist Review 87, no. 1 (September 2007): 113–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400364.
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The focus group held in Bologna on 2 October 2005 revolved around the relationships between ‘body’, ‘sexuality’ and ‘precarity’, which are concepts at the heart of the reflections and political agenda of the feminist and Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (GLBTQ) movements in Italy.
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Vaysman, Margarita. "“To Become a Warrior and a Son to My Father”: Aleksandr Aleksandrov’s (Nadezhda Durova) Notes of a Cavalry Maiden (1836) as Transgender Autobiography." Narrative 32, no. 2 (May 2024): 154–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/nar.2024.a926173.
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ABSTRACT: Transgender autobiographies have been a subject of narratology since the 1990s. Most of these studies have focused predominantly on twentieth- and, later, twenty-first-century texts, guided by the increasing availability of primary sources and the temporal limitations of transgender history. And yet, as Jay Prosser argued in his influential 1998 work Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Sexuality , “even without the official discourse of sex change, the plot lines of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century transgendered subjects are remarkably consistent with those of contemporary transsexuals” (133). This article expands the chronology and geography of narrato-logical analysis of this genre through reading Notes of a Cavalry Maiden [Zapiski kavalerist-devitsy] (1836) by Aleksandr Aleksandrov (Nadezhda Durova) (1783–1866), a Russian-Ukrainian hero of the Napoleonic wars, as a transgender autobiography. This reading brings into consideration new forms, affects, and narrative structures as constituent elements of trans narratives and has the potential to expand anglophone trans imaginaries past the confines of their current locations and temporalities.
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Said, Tanti Noor. "Gender Politics and Sexuality: Indonesian Transgender in the Context of Indonesia and Western Europe Society." Jurnal Perempuan 20, no. 4 (November 1, 2015): 321–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.34309/jp.v20i4.20.
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This paper attempts to analyze how Indonesian gay males and transgenders male to female in two different social, cultural and political contexts (in Indonesia and Northern Europe) are actively engaged in the making of their own subjectivity. Their subjectivities are entangled with gender, sexuality, religion, romantic love relationships and kinship. They juggle in negotiating and making sense of norms and values of societies that projected towards them. This paper aims to shed light on gender politics of gay and transgender Indonesians in the context of heterosexual hegemony and migration.
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Riseman, Noah. "Transgender Inclusion and Australia's Failed Sexuality Discrimination Bill." Australian Journal of Politics & History 65, no. 2 (May 9, 2019): 259–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12568.
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Espineira, Karine. "Transgender and transsexual people’s sexuality in the media." Parallax 22, no. 3 (July 2, 2016): 323–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13534645.2016.1201922.
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Lorentia, Helena. "Cheated: The Psychoanalysis on a Transgender Person." K@ta Kita 5, no. 2 (November 16, 2018): 38–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.9744/katakita.5.2.38-44.
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This creative works tells a story about a husband who hides his true identity from his wife. He is actually a transgender person who has a desire to be a woman, but he represses his desire and tries to live as a man. I choose the transgender topic because there are a lot of transgender people around us who repress their true sexuality because of the society norms and beliefs. Therefore, my story wants to explore more on this topic with the help of the theory of defense mechanism by Freud to explain why and how the husband represses his sexuality, and to explain the effects caused by the repression. The story is presented through the drama and psychological thriller genre to suit the style of the creative work which focuses on the psychological state of the main characters and the complexity within them,
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Johnston, Lynda. "Gender and sexuality II." Progress in Human Geography 41, no. 5 (July 20, 2016): 648–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309132516659569.
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This report considers genders and sexualities within and across spaces of activism. Geographers concerned with social belonging, equity, human rights, civic duties, and gendered and sexed identities often engage in activism through participatory research and/or direct action. This report brings together geographical scholarship on feminist and queer (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer) – LGBTIQ – activism to examine the construction of transformative geographical knowledges. Feminist and queer activist geographers can be powerful forces for positive social change and challenge heteronormativity. They may also, however, reinforce normalizations and hierarchies within and beyond activist spaces. I bring together references that position geographers at the centre of activism, genders, sexualities and place.
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Wilchins, Riki. "A New Vagina Didn't Make Her Sad (It Didn't Have To)." TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 7, no. 3 (August 1, 2020): 345–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/23289252-8552964.
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Abstract Andrea Long Chu's New York Times article, “My New Vagina Won't Make Me Happy (And It Shouldn't Have To),” marks a shift in trans discourse, raising issues about the challenges of surgical outcomes and being a post-op transgender woman with a candor that has heretofore been rare publicly. Yet it devotes little attention to the actual experience of being transgender. Similarly, much of gender theory succeeds at cycles of better and more accurate deconstruction, without mobilizing this to explore what it's like to be transgender. This article calls for renewed academic attention to the phenomenology of transgender—on issues like psychology, sexuality, and embodiment.
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JONES, PETER. "TRANSGENDER: TRANS-ITION TO NOWHERE." CURRENT DEBATES IN REFORMED THEOLOGY: PRACTICE 4, no. 2 (October 22, 2018): 27–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.35285/ucc4.2.2018.art2.
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Based on Genesis 1:1, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth” (ESV), the apostle Paul in Romans 1:25 gives an amazingly com- plete definition of the only two ways of existing in the world: “they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.” I call these two ways of existing Oneism and Twoism. In Oneism, if you worship creation, you will believe that the world is self-created, self-explanatory, and all made of the same stuff (matter, spirit, or a mixture). Paganism is the worship of nature. If everything shares the same divine substance, then all distinctions are eliminated and everything is god. In Twoism, if you worship God, you will believe that he is the Creator—an external, intelligent, personal God. There are two kinds of existence—the Creator who is uncreated, and everything else, which is created. He has placed distinctions in his creation, making what I call Twoism a worldview based on the binaries of otherness and difference. From living under the cultural canopy of biblical truth, our world has changed in the last one or two generations. This becomes especially evident in the modern views of sexuality—in particular, transsexuality, where human beings now self-define and reject the creational binary of male/female sexuality.
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Gagliano, Jamie C., and Alexander Liebman. "Trans*agrarian Marxisms?" TSQ 11, no. 2 (May 1, 2024): 385–412. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/23289252-11215561.
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Abstract This article recasts agrarian studies’ concerns with nature, productivity, and subjectivity through the provocations raised by transgender Marxism. Transgender Marxism has interrogated how normative gender, sexuality, and racial dynamics are inseparable from the material and reproductive matrices required for capital. Critical agrarian studies has a long history of carefully tracing out the political economy of agrarian capitalism and resistance to it. Engaging with the unruly materialisms of transgender Marxism would further the work of critical agrarian studies, particularly in regard to the ways gender and sexuality are taken up in the field. The project of transgender Marxism offers a scathing critique of rights-based recognition, hetero- and homonormativity, apoliticized science, and the ways in which the biological family figures at the heart of capitalist reproduction. Such questions have been taken up in small corners of queer and feminist critical agrarian studies, particularly those rooted in the United States, but transgender Marxism offers a new opportunity to bring together the material and historical concerns of the ways agrarian capitalism takes place and creates conditions for unruly forms of resistance. The article demonstrates their possible interconnectivities by exploring three themes: theories of change, the centrality of gender/sex in the agrarian, and unruly, ungrounded materialisms. While primarily a theoretical intervention, the article draws some insights from the authors’ ethnographic work in Paraguay and Colombia to ground the theoretical possibilities in place.
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Holmberg, Mats, Stefan Arver, and Cecilia Dhejne. "Supporting sexuality and improving sexual function in transgender persons." Nature Reviews Urology 16, no. 2 (October 30, 2018): 121–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41585-018-0108-8.
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Royneberg, Anders, and Trude Slettvoll Lien. "Transgender Youth and Sexuality – Experiences From Our Empowerment Groups." Journal of Sexual Medicine 14, no. 5 (May 2017): e271. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsxm.2017.04.314.
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Rosenmann, Amir, and Marilyn P. Safir. "Sex, Sexuality, and Gender Dichotomized: Transgender Homosexuality in Israel." Archives of Sexual Behavior 37, no. 3 (April 23, 2008): 489–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10508-008-9330-4.
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Agustine, Sri. "The Hidden Blackbox: Corrective Rape Against Lesbian, Bisexual (Women) and Male Transgender." Jurnal Perempuan 26, no. 2 (August 31, 2021): 103. http://dx.doi.org/10.34309/jp.v26i2.583.
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<p>This article discusses about the corrective rape against lesbian, bisexual (women), and male transgender that is performed by the perpetrator with aim to correct the LBT’s (lesbian, bisexual, and transgender) sexuality. Such sexuality that are deemed bad, abnormal and cursed, therefore must be corrected. Corrective rape is perceived as a form of punishment, and it is everyone’s responsibility to undertake correction. Corrective rape has rarely been revealed. In order to reveal the facts about corrective rape against LBT in Indonesia, this article writes the stories of four LBTs that would open up our conscience, that any form of corrective rape must be abolished, in line with our hope to abolish sexual violence against women through the legislating of the draft law on the abolition of sexual violence (RUU PKS).</p>
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Jones, Lucy. "Discourses of transnormativity in vloggers’ identity construction." International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2019, no. 256 (February 25, 2019): 85–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2018-2013.
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Abstract This article investigates the construction of two transgender vlogger personas, providing insight into the prevalence of normative discourses which may be drawn on when constructing transgender identities. Many transgender people around the world rely on the internet as a source of information and guidance, with online video diaries (“vlogs”), in which young people record and chart their experiences of transition, playing a particularly important role. In this article, discourse from two popular transgender vloggers is critically analysed. It is found that the vloggers index identities which are broadly in line with what Lal Zimman terms the archetypal “true transsexual”, an ideological model of what it means to be “authentically” transgender. This corresponds with heteronormative, essentialist expectations of binary gender. The vloggers are shown to authenticate their own experiences by stating what is “typical” and positioning themselves as “experts”. Ultimately, it is argued that the version of transgender identity and experience that they put forward reproduces prevalent discourses of normative gender and sexuality.
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Hawley, David A. "Therapeutic work with gender identity issues: a response to John L. Bennett." British Gestalt Journal 20, no. 1 (June 1, 2011): 14–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.53667/igjv3538.
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"Abstract: Gender is a fundamental aspect of our personal identity and yet there is no general agreement as to either its origin or even its definition. Nevertheless, paradoxically, conformity to strictly gendered behavioural norms is rigidly enforced by society. The author suggests that these factors lie at the heart of gender identity therapy and outlines some of the consequences of this situation for transgendered individuals presenting for therapy. He also explores some of the challenges which this presents for the therapist and proposes that a Gestalt approach based on phenomenology is the solution to many of the difficulties. Key words: gender identity, Gestalt therapy, phenomenology, transgender, dysphoria, sexuality."
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Kumar, Pawan, and Raghav Acharya. "IMPACT OF NALSA DECISION ON THE TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY IN INDIA." International Journal of Education, Modern Management, Applied Science & Social Science 05, no. 04(III) (December 31, 2023): 13–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.62823/5.4(iii).6230.
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Gender is a pervasive facet in all aspects of social life. Socially and biologically gender is pre-determined into two categories, Male or Female. Gender is a distinct category that describes particular human characteristics. The most important thing about gender is that its meaning is created by society and people are expected to behave and express themselves in a certain way that are consistent with the socially pre-determined gender role associated with their sex. Transgender means- a category of people who are considered as being neither men nor women, such as transgender and intersex people. Transgender also knows the name of Hijra, Kinar and Transgender etc. Despite recent liberalization and legal progress towards protecting gender and sexuality identification, India’s hijra community continues to live on the margins of society.
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Zhang, Chao. "Gender Identity Navigation: The Challenge and Perspectives of Transgender in Christian Gender." Communications in Humanities Research 18, no. 1 (December 7, 2023): 248–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.54254/2753-7064/18/20231185.
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This article explores the connection between transgender identity and Christian gender, defining sex, gender, and sexuality while analysing the social aspects of gender identity. From this analysis, the article considers contemporary arguments put forth by Christian churches and theologians either in support or opposition to transgender identity based on Christian gender perspectives, including essentialism, traditional gender norms, queer theory, and exegesis of scripture. Whilst there may be a perceived tension between transgender identity and traditional Christian notions of gender, this article aims to highlight the diversity of Christian perspectives on gender. In fact, certain theological viewpoints endorse the inclusion of transgender individuals and challenge established gender norms within the faith. These perspectives encourage discussion and introspection within the religious community, contributing towards a more diverse and inclusive understanding of Christian gender concepts.
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Lien, T., and A. Royneberg. "Working with Empowerment Groups and Transgender Youth." Klinička psihologija 9, no. 1 (June 13, 2016): 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.21465/2016-kp-op-0013.
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Objective: Working at Sex og samfunn (Medical Center of Adolescent Sexuality), we often meet young people struggling with their gender identity. Most of them tell the same story; they have problems getting acceptance from society, family, friends and health professionals. Their stories made us wanting to learn more, and that was the beginning of our empowerment groups for transgender youth. Design and Method: The goal and purpose of the groups, is to bring transgendered youths together to share experience and to support each other. Our role as group-leaders is to make a safe place where the group-members freely can talk about their experiences on being transgender in the Norwegian society. Results: Unfortunately, many of the youths in our groups tell the same story. They have had bad experiences reaching out for help, especially with health professionals. Many felt rejected and mistrusted when they told their stories. They often got the same response; this phase will soon end and it is normal to be confused when you are a teenager. The knowledge was especially low amongst doctors, psychologists and public health nurses, groups expected to have knowledge about gender and gender issues. Conclusions: All these stories lead us to making a lecture with the heading: “How to meet transgender youths?” The participants of the groups gave us suggestions and valuable insight on how to understand them and how to provide good health services.
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Schilt, Kristen, and Elroi Windsor. "The Sexual Habitus of Transgender Men: Negotiating Sexuality Through Gender." Journal of Homosexuality 61, no. 5 (April 9, 2014): 732–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2014.870444.
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Francisco, Nicole A. "Bodies in Confinement: Negotiating Queer, Gender Nonconforming, and Transwomen’s Gender and Sexuality behind Bars." Laws 10, no. 2 (June 17, 2021): 49. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/laws10020049.
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The criminal punishment system plays a critical role in the production of race, gender, and sexuality in the United States. The regulation of marginalized women’s bodies—transwomen, butches, and lesbians—in confinement reproduces cis-heteronormativity. Echoing the paternalistic claims of protection that have inspired “bathroom bills,” gender-segregated prison facilities have notoriously condemned transwomen prisoners to men’s prisons for the “safety” of women’s prisons, constructing cisgender women as “at risk” of sexual assault and transgender women as “risky”, overlooking the reality of transwomen as the most at risk of experiencing sexual violence in prisons. Prisons use legal and medical constructions of gender that pathologize transgender identity in order to legitimize health concerns; for example, the mutilation of the body in an effort to remove unwanted genitalia as evidence to warrant a diagnosis of gender identity disorder, or later gender dysphoria. This construction of transgender identity as a medical condition that warrants treatment forces prisoners to pathologize their gender identity in order to access adequate gender-affirming care. By exploring the writings of queer and trans prisoners, we can glean how heteronormativity structures gender and sexuality behind bars and discover how trans prisoners work to assemble knowledge, support, and resources toward survival.
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Muldoon, Matthew, and Donal McAteer. "Keeping up appearances: Experiences of identifying with gender and sexuality." Psychology of Sexualities Review 10, no. 1 (2019): 5–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.53841/bpssex.2019.10.1.5.
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Homonormativity, the normalising and privileging of some expressions of LGBT identities and ways of living over others, has the potential to have adverse effects on expression of identity within the LGBT community. This qualitative study set out to explore homonormativity, within a Northern Ireland context. Interviews were conducted with nine participants aged between 22 and 65 who took part in individual semi-structured interviews. The resulting data was explored using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) resulting in three superordinate themes: ‘Disconnected and unseen’, ‘Going in social circles’ and ‘Generational differences’. Participant experiences reflected varying degrees of support for homonormativity. Of note was that not all participants reported opinions or experiences which align with those in homonormative theory. Similarly, bisexual and transgender participants acknowledged that a focus on equal marriage was more important to those identifying as lesbian and gay. However, bisexual and transgender participants were open in expressing the important role that marriage equality laws have played for the whole community in increasing visibility – a perspective which homonormativity theory does not appear to acknowledge.
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Davy, Zowie. "Genderqueer(ing): ‘On this side of the world against which it protests’." Sexualities 22, no. 1-2 (January 30, 2018): 80–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460717740255.
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Deconstructionism as a method in transgender studies has been useful to collapse concepts and ideas about (trans) gender and sexuality. In spite of the usefulness of undoing the gender and sexuality canon, by way of concentrating on transgender practices, the resulting deconstructions often leave us with no place to go. This article develops an analysis of transsexual and genderqueer people’s bodily aesthetic assemblages, challenging theorizations that exclusively pit transsexual people as subjugated and genderqueer people as subversive. Drawing on interview data from 23 transsexual and genderqueer people, this article argues that transsexual and genderqueer people, regardless of their desire for particular bodily aesthetic interventions and gender recognition, productively flee, elude, flow, leak and disappear from categorizing legal statutes and healthcare protocols. The article concludes by arguing that deconstructive work becomes divisive and unproductive for theorizing and understanding the bodily aesthetics and diverse connectivities and affectivities of transsexual and genderqueer people, all of whom become territorialized, deterritorialized and reterritorialized through polyvocal bodily aesthetic assemblages.
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Marsofely, Reka LagoraMarsofely Lagora. "PRAKTIKWARIA DALAMMELAKUKAN VOLUNTARY COUNSELING AND TESTING (VCT)." JURNAL MEDIA KESEHATAN 9, no. 2 (November 15, 2018): 139–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.33088/jmk.v9i2.305.
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Transgender is a group of people that has higher risk of sexuality infection diseasecomparing than other groups that have as high of sexuality disease infection (such as whoreand gay) because they have many sexual partners. The reason of doing such business is thatfor money. As a matter of fact, they have low income, temporary worker and low educated.The data shows that there is a decreasing of transsexual visiting to Voluntary Counseling andTesting clinic (VCT). Today, VCT is the most effective way in the case of preventing andserving HIV/AIDS infection especially to the groups that have a high risk of infection liketransgender. The objective of the research is to know the factors that make transgendervisiting to Voluntary Counseling and Testing in Rejang Lebong regency in 2014. Thisresearch uses quantitative research with cross section approach. There were 100 people ofsamples by using random sampling. The result of the study showed that the factors in whichmade transgender visiting Voluntary Counseling and Testing clinic was attitude variable withp 0.000 score. In this case, it’s important to improve transsexual’s knowledge and skill tochange the attitude so it can give a significant value to prevent the sexuality infection diseasesand HIV AIDS in Rejang Lebong regency.
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Powell, Anastasia, Adrian J. Scott, and Nicola Henry. "Digital harassment and abuse: Experiences of sexuality and gender minority adults." European Journal of Criminology 17, no. 2 (July 30, 2018): 199–223. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1477370818788006.
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Digital harassment and abuse refers to a range of harmful, interpersonal behaviours experienced via the internet, as well as via mobile phone and other electronic communication devices. Whereas much existing research has focused on the experiences of children and young people (including foremost ‘cyberbullying’), there have been few international studies on adult experiences of digital harassment and abuse. As such, little is currently known about the extent, nature and impacts of digital harassment and abuse on adult victims. In particular, there exists a significant gap in current research into sexual, sexuality and gender based digital harassment and abuse. This article draws on findings from a larger research project in which we surveyed 2956 Australian adults and 2842 British adults (aged 18 to 54) about their experiences of technology-facilitated sexual violence (TFSV). The data presented here focus on the experiences of sexuality diverse adults ( n = 282) who identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual or heterosexual, as well as gender diverse adults ( n = 90), including women, men and transgender individuals. Results suggest that transgender individuals experience higher rates of digital harassment and abuse overall, and higher rates of sexual, sexuality and gender based harassment and abuse, as compared with heterosexual cisgender individuals. Implications of the findings are discussed with respect to policy, prevention, and future research.
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Vincent, Ben, and Sonja Erikainen. "Gender, love, and sex: Using duoethnography to research gender and sexuality minority experiences of transgender relationships." Sexualities 23, no. 1-2 (November 20, 2018): 28–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460718796457.
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This article uses a duoethnographic approach to explore the intersection of lesbian and queer sexualities and transgender identities in intimate relationships. By comparing experiences of gender and sexual identity negotiation within transgender relationships, the authors document how sexual identity borders are traversed, and how gender is negotiated and interrogated in and through these relationships. We argue that our differential experiences of ‘queer’ as an identity, our relationship challenges and how we express/relate to gender are heavily shaped by feminist politics, and how social interactions are gendered.
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Giami, Alain. "Medicalization of Sexuality and Trans Situations: Evolutions and Transformations." Societies 13, no. 1 (December 22, 2022): 3. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/soc13010003.
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This article explores the evolution of the definition and the process of medicalization of sexuality during the second half of the 20th century. After a review and discussion of the notion of medicalization, the application of this notion to a few examples is discussed, including the emergence of sexuality, the demedicalization of homosexuality, the treatment of “sexual disorders”, the prevention of HIV infection, and the gender-affirmation pathways for transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people. The analysis of these situations—in the light of the notion of medicalization—allows us to better understand the multiple facets of this notion. In particular, we observe processes of medicalization and demedicalization, depathologization, and pharmacologization. The notion of medicalization of sexuality appears here as a useful concept for understanding the conceptualization and treatment of diversities in the field of sexuality and gender.
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Anilkumar, Sukhada, Irene Nirmala Thomas, and Nithya Priyadharshini. "Scope of dermatological practice among transgenders seeking cosmetic advice." International Journal of Advances in Medicine 11, no. 4 (June 25, 2024): 377–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2349-3933.ijam20241632.
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Transgender women are persons who are assigned male at birth, but who identify themselves as women. They aspire to display female characteristics both in appearance and attitude. Transgender women try to exhibit their female sexuality through the extensive usage of cosmetological interventions such as epilation of facial hair, control of acne, whitening treatments and excessive usage of makeup on face as the face serves as the part of body that helps to project their sexual characteristics. The prolonged and inappropriate usage of such interventions can lead to complications for which these group of individuals seek Dermatologic advice. Due to the rampant usage of steroid containing creams by our population in general and transgender community in particular as a means to overcome body dysmorphia, dermatologists have the responsibility to give proper advice regarding the complications following any cosmetological interventions. We report three transgender females who came to the OPD with skin thinning, acne, hypertrichosis and telangiectasia following the usage of topical steroid containing facial whitening creams.
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Nelson, Christi, Karen Fredriksen-Goldsen, Charles Hoy-Ellis, Meghan Romanelli, and Hyun-Jun Kim. "SEXUAL AND GENDER IDENTITY AND THEIR PROPERTIES IN AGING WITH PRIDE: NATIONAL HEALTH, AGING, AND SEXUALITY AND GENDER STUDY." Innovation in Aging 7, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2023): 213–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igad104.0705.
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Abstract Increasing diversity and rapidly evolving sociopolitical context are changing how sexuality and gender identity are experienced, expressed, and measured in contemporary America. Based on longitudinal data from Aging with Pride: National Health, Aging, and Sexuality/Gender Study, we examine sexual and gender identity, differentiation from other related constructs (i.e., desire, behavior, expression, relationships) as well as the associations between properties of sexual and gender identities (e.g., congruence, continua, visibility, centrality, and transformation) and the health and well-being of LGBTQ midlife and older adults (N=2,233), aged 50-102 at baseline. The findings document important differences in current as well as lifetime sexual experiences, desires, and romantic relationships by sexuality and gender identity. Measures incorporating a continuum as opposed to binary response categories better capture the experiences of bisexual, sexually diverse, and transgender older participants as compared to lesbians and gay men. When examining transformation, 7% reported changes to their sexual identity and 3% reported changes to their gender identity over 4 years. Those who changed their identity over time showed a higher level of identity stigma and poorer physical and psychological health-related quality of life. Our findings reveal that heterogeneity and intersectionality are critical to understanding sexual and gender identity. It is important to consider multiple aspects of sexuality and gender (e.g., romantic relationships) that are often overlooked in gerontological and sexuality and gender research. Scholarship on sexual and gender identity development and transformation in later life is needed to better address diversity in the aging population.
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McTavish, James. "Transgender and Intersex Individuals and Religious Life." Ethics & Medics 48, no. 8 (2023): 1–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/em202348814.
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Societal views of the place of transgender and intersex individuals and the right of such individuals to participate in activities and institutions previously made unavailable to them based on sex are changing rapidly. While many institutions are allowing such people to engage in activities previously reserved for the sex opposite from their biological sex, the Catholic church must stand firm in its fidelity to the truth of human sexuality. However, groups within the Church have expressed differing views; namely, the German Synod and its recent text titled, “Dealing with Gender Diversity.” This paper seeks to examine the synod’s conclusions and refutes them using appeals to Orthodox Catholic teaching.
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Carr, Nicola, Tanya Serisier, and Siobhán McAlister. "Sexual deviance in prison: Queering identity and intimacy in prison research." Criminology & Criminal Justice 20, no. 5 (June 30, 2020): 551–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1748895820937401.
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Recent years have seen increased attention in both research and policy towards lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender prisoners as a group with distinct needs. This has been driven by wider political recognition of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights and research suggesting that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender prisoners are particularly ‘vulnerable’ to bullying and abuse within prison settings. Much of this research, and the policy solutions associated with it, we argue, ignores or side-steps queer perspectives, relying instead on liberal conceptions of identity, vulnerability and, ultimately, assimilation. Just as contemporary campaigns around marriage rights see lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities and individuals as fundamentally the same as the majority, rather than posing a challenge to the heteronormativity of marriage as an institution, much contemporary research and policy on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender prisoners sees this group as marked only by potential discrimination. We argue here instead that experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender prisoners can be read ‘queerly’ so as to potentially challenge the rigid gender and heteronormative foundations that underlie systems of incarceration. We draw on a small-scale empirical research project around the experience of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender prisoners to revisit contemporary paradoxes of prisons and sexuality and to problematise understandings of identity, intimacy and deviance in the prison context.
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Miles-Johnson, Toby. "Police recruit perception of transgender officers: inclusion, diversity and transgender people." Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice 6, no. 3 (December 2, 2019): 189–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jcrpp-10-2019-0063.
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Purpose The reality of policing in the twenty-first century is that most officers identify as white, heterosexual and cisgender (or identifying with the sex assigned to them at birth) and outnumber officers from diverse groups. Whilst many diverse officers are employed by police organisations, there is a lack of evidence to suggest transgender people seek employment in policing or (following strategic recruitment drives) are actively recruited by police organisations. This raises questions regarding the factors which constrain or facilitate employment of transgender people into policing and whether strategic recruitment drives targeting transgender people work. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach Following a recruitment drive targeting diverse community members, an online survey was administered to police recruits in one of Australia’s smaller state based police organisations (n=742) to determine if recruits self-identity as transgender or cisgender, and whether or not self-identified cisgender or transgender recruits would be willing to work alongside one another. Findings The results indicated that all the recruits in this study identified as cisgender. Whilst transgender recruits may have participated in the research, none of the recruits identified openly as transgender in the survey. Consequently, there was a significant association between the recruit’s gender and sexuality, and their perceptions of working alongside transgender officers, with almost all recruits stating that they would prefer to work with cisgender officers. Practical implications The findings of this research contribute original knowledge to the extant body of policing literature regarding police recruit perceptions of working alongside transgender officers. Originality/value This type of research has not been conducted in an Australian context before.
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Dugan, Jess T., and Vanessa Fabbre. "To Survive on This Shore." Radical History Review 2021, no. 139 (January 1, 2021): 211–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01636545-8822723.
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Abstract For over five years, photographer Jess T. Dugan and social worker Vanessa Fabbre traveled throughout the United States creating To Survive on This Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults. Seeking subjects whose lived experiences exist at the complex intersections of gender identity, age, race, ethnicity, sexuality, socioeconomic class, and geographic location, they documented the life stories of this important but largely underrepresented group of older adults. The resulting photographs and interviews provide a nuanced view into the struggles and joys of growing older as a transgender person and offer a poignant reflection on what it means to live authentically despite seemingly insurmountable odds.
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Preston, Marilyn. "Not Another Special Guest: Transgender Inclusivity in a Human Sexuality Course." Radical Teacher, no. 92 (January 12, 2012): 47–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/radicalteacher.92.0047.
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Janson, Melissa, and Julia Uyttewaal. "XV. Privilege and transgender in/exclusivity in a female sexuality group." Feminism & Psychology 25, no. 1 (February 2015): 84–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959353514563092.
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Huff, Billy. "Thinking Trans/Sex: Erotic Justice and the Trans-Subject." QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking 10, no. 1 (February 1, 2023): 123–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.14321/qed.10.1.0123.
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Abstract My gender identity is trans-fag bottom boy. I characterize my trans-masculinity as a technologically enabled creation that gives embodied form to the fantasies that structure my desire. I cannot think my gender without recourse to my sexuality. In fact, I conceive of my transness as wholly motivated by the sexual. According to hegemonic trends in Transgender Studies and many political and community discourses, however, I am mistaken at best, and at worst, I am an impossibility. Gender and sexuality are commonly maintained as separate phenomena that emerge from distinct ontological and epistemological foundations. In this article, I trace the historical emergence of the contemporary conceptual frame that holds that gender and sexuality are separate aspects of being. I then argue that the separation of gender and sexuality is not a necessary or sufficient condition for transness. Finally, I discuss the consequences of not considering even the possibility that some trans- people cannot separate their felt sense of gender and sexuality. I conclude by offering thoughts about what might constitute erotic justice for trans- subjects.
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Mangin, Melinda. "Supporting transgender and gender-expansive children in school." Phi Delta Kappan 100, no. 2 (September 24, 2018): 16–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0031721718803564.
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As transgender people have received greater visibility and acceptance, as well as increased legal protections, educators have begun to examine their school policies and practices with an eye toward legal compliance and a desire to be welcoming to all students. Melinda Mangin shares insights from interviews with educators who have sought to improve their policies and practices on the district, school, and classroom level. Providing support requires educators to learn about the differences between sex, gender, and sexuality; to be proactive in creating inclusive policies before issues arise; and to work closely with parents and students to understand their needs.
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King, Michael. "Stigma in psychiatry seen through the lens of sexuality and gender." BJPsych International 16, no. 04 (July 11, 2019): 77–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bji.2019.12.
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The history of psychiatry and homosexuality illuminates how stigma develops in the professions, how it is linked to cultural values and religious attitudes and how it affects patients. Homosexuality was medicalised as a disorder in the late 19th century and this led to treatments to change it. Same-gender contacts between men were decriminalised in many countries in the 1960s and 1970s, but – as recently as the 1980s – 30% of doctors in the USA did not think that gay students should be admitted to medical school and 40% would not allow gay doctors to specialise in paediatrics or psychiatry. Lesbians and gay men were effectively debarred from training in the main psychoanalytical schools in the USA and the UK. Although mainstream psychological treatments to make gay and bisexual people heterosexual fell into disrepute in the 1980s, so-called conversion or reparative treatments took their place and are still practised today. Transgender people have been the target of similar disapproval and attitudes towards them have been even slower to change than those towards lesbians and gay men. This stigma had consequences on the health, well-being and social inclusion of those who were lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT). This history suggests we need to examine where psychiatry and psychology are making similar mistakes today.
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Witten, Tarynn M., and Stephen Whittle. "TransPanthers: The Greying of Transgender and the Law." Deakin Law Review 9, no. 2 (November 1, 2004): 504–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.21153/dlr2004vol9no2art253.
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Aging is a universal normalising process. No gender identity, no body form, no sex/sexuality is necessarily fixed in time and none of these facets of the human spirit are invulnerable to the ongoing processes of aging. Aging unites us in a way that no other process can. It is universal and inevitable. The emergence of a vocal population of transgender individuals of all ages mandates that we address the problems of aging in this population. The combined stigma of being elderly and transgender can serve as a strong traumatising force in the lives of such individu- als. In this article, we focus on the interaction of aging, non-normative body forms and identities, and the law.
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Jones, Tiffany. "Evidence affirming school supports for Australian transgender and gender diverse students." Sexual Health 14, no. 5 (2017): 412. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/sh17001.
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Background The United Nations (UN) and related UN bodies have recognised transgender and gender diverse (TGD) students’ rights at the global level to full equitable access to education, and specifically sexuality education, repeatedly. Methods: This article explores the available support for this equal access in Australia. It discusses TGD student rights in a range of Australian laws and education policies. Results: It shows how the inclusion of TGD students, particularly in sexuality education, is reinforced in the current Australian National Curricula. Finally, it considers research on Australian TGD students’ educational attainment, experiences of transphobic abuse and violence, and experiences in contexts where they do and do not have staff (and other) support. It also shows that contrary to the picture of TGD students as victims leading inherently negative lives often seen in research, this group is nevertheless capable of resilience and positive education activism, which promotes their wellbeing and social outcomes. Conclusion: It argues for a shift from harmful approaches of victimising TGD students or treating them only as victims, towards celebrating the contributions of these students to their schools and societies.
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Hamidah, Rofingatun, Tyas Retno Wulan, and Arizal Mutahir. "Representasi kelompok lesbian, gay, biseksual, dan transgender (LGBT) dalam pemberitaan Detik.com." Yinyang: Jurnal Studi Islam Gender dan Anak 18, no. 1 (June 1, 2023): 59–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.24090/yinyang.v18i1.7196.
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The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) group is a group that is marginalized due to issues of gender and sexuality. The LGBT community is often stigmatized as immoral and deviant, considered the source of HIV/AIDS, contrary to religion, as a disease, and not by state ideology. Society's knowledge of heteronormative gender and sexuality makes the LGBT group abnormal. The media can construct or deconstruct what people believe to be true. This study intends to explain how the representation of LGBT groups in news coverage in the mass media. In particular, the news in the online media Detik.com. Detik.com was chosen because it is one of the pioneers of internet-based mass media and always occupies Indonesia's top ten most popular websites. This research used Norman Fairclough's critical discourse analysis method, focusing on social structure, class, and social relations. Norman Fairclough presents three dimensions of analysis: text analysis, discourse practice, and sociocultural practice. The study results show Detik.com reporting on LGBT issues dominates in putting LGBT groups in a corner. The LGBT group is still represented as "deviant" and prone to discrimination.
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Thomas, Amy, Hannah McCann, and Geraldine Fela. "‘In this house we believe in fairness and kindness’: Post-liberation politics in Australia's same-sex marriage postal survey." Sexualities 23, no. 4 (March 14, 2019): 475–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460719830347.
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In December 2017, Australia legalized same-sex marriage (SSM), following a 13-year ban and a drawn-out postal survey on marriage equality that saw campaigners mobilize for a ‘Yes’ vote on a non-binding poll. Through a discourse analysis of the Yes and No campaigns’ television and online video advertisements, we demonstrate how the Yes campaign was symptomatic of what we call a ‘post-liberation’ approach that saw SSM as the last major hurdle for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer (LGBTIQ) politics. While the No campaign linked SSM to gender fluidity, transgender identity, and sex education programmes, in contrast the Yes campaign limited itself to narratives around love and marriage. In not attending to the link between sex, gender and sexuality, the Yes campaign narrowed the possibilities of the debate, preserving existing White heteronormative expectations of gender and sexuality. We contrast the debate that unfolded during the postal survey to the Australian Gay Liberation movement of the 1970s, the latter of which was able to successfully and radically challenge similarly homophobic campaigns. Rather than relying on ‘palatable’ or mainstream ideas of equality, love and fairness, Gay Liberation in Australia embraced the radical potential of LGBTIQ activism and presented a utopian, optimistic vision of a transformed future. Here we suggest that we can learn from the history of campaigns around sexuality, to understand what was ‘won’ in the SSM debate, and to better develop strategies for change in the future.
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Milward, Benjamin, and Elizabeth Collier. "Sexuality, student mental health nurse and lecturer experience in education and practice." British Journal of Mental Health Nursing 10, no. 4 (November 2, 2021): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/bjmh.2021.0023.
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This article presents a critical reflection on an experience relating to sexuality from two perspectives, a mental health nursing student and a lecturer. It took place during stage 1 of a graduate entry nursing 2-year Master of Science mental health nursing programme at a UK university. Student mental health nurses in higher education who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender can feel less safe than others, which affects performance. Lecturers can make a difference to the educational experience of student nurses who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender and this can have an impact on clinical practice. The emotional impact of ‘coming out’ in the classroom can have far-reaching consequences for their mental health. The response of educational staff can have a huge impact on the ability to learn and the marks achieved. Student–lecturer relationships can have transformative consequences. Student mental health nurses make meaning from their educational experiences in the classroom and clinical practice. If they do not see themselves represented, this can affect engagement and motivation. Safe nursing practice is role modelled from lecturer to student and has implications for service user experience in clinical settings.
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Perenc, Lidia, and Ryszard Pęczkowski. "The current system of sexuality education in Polish secondary schools: University students’ perspectives." Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality 31, no. 1 (April 1, 2022): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/cjhs.2021-0025.
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In secondary schools in Poland, sexuality education was formally introduced in 1993 in the form of Education for Family Life (EFL) classes. The EFL curriculum is largely based on Catholic doctrine. The current study examined the opinions and attitudes of students attending a university in Poland regarding sexuality education in public secondary schools. A sample of 498 first- and second-year university students completed a questionnaire that collected information on demographic characteristics, the student’s sources of information about sexual health, and their opinions and attitudes related to sexuality education. Over 80% of the students used the Internet as a source of sexual health information while far fewer students cited teachers/classroom activities (24.3%). Over three-quarter of females (79.5%) and males (75.9%) agreed that it is important to have sexual health education as part of the secondary school curriculum. Students’ responses to the question on the importance of sexual health education in schools did not differ significantly based on their level of religious commitment. However, few women (12.9%) and men (9.2%) rated the current effectiveness of sexuality education in schools as “high.” For topics that should be covered in the curriculum, the students rated birth control methods, abortion, sexual orientation/lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues, and sexually transmitted diseases the highest. The findings indicate that Polish university students view school-based sexual health education as important but currently ineffective. Policies to reform public school-based sexual health in Poland are needed to ensure that Polish youth have the information and skills to protect and enhance their sexual health.
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Ellison, Joy. "Making Pictures: Disabled Nonbinary Praxis in Leslie Feinberg’s screened-in Photography Series." WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly 51, no. 3-4 (September 2023): 231–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2023.a910083.
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Abstract: This paper expands historical and theoretical engagements with Leslie Feinberg’s life by analyzing the nonbinary and disability politics of hir screened-in photography series. Through a consent-based method called “making” photographs, Feinberg challenged the conventions of photographic representation of disabled and transgender people. The screened-in series provides a nonbinary political/relational model of gender, sexuality, race, and disability.
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Emlet, Charles, Karen Fredriksen Goldsen, Vanessa Fabbre, Hailey Jung, and Hyun Kim. "Historical and Generational Forces and Gender Differences in the Iridescent Life Course of Transgender Older Adults." Innovation in Aging 4, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2020): 735. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2613.
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Abstract Shifting historical, political, and social times have impacted transgender older adults in experiences and development. Examining how gender identities interact with life events within a historical context elucidates differences by generations and gender. Using a transgender subsample (n=205) from the National Health, Aging, and Sexuality/Gender Study (N=2,450), (logistic) weighted regressions with sociodemographic adjustment were performed to examine generational differences and gender interaction in key life experiences in identity, work, kin, bias, community, and health/well-being. Silenced (born 1935-1949, 18%), than Pride (1950-1964, 79%), Generation disclosed identity later, is less visible, more likely retired and veteran, more likely for lifetime opposite-sex marriage and divorce. Significant gender interactions exist in community engagement, kin relationships, and physical health. Despite small sample size, Invisible Generation (1914-1934, 3%) has unique differences. Findings show complexity of generational differences among transgender older adults, understanding of what helps better serve them as they age with their accumulated life experiences.
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Tsang, Eileen Y. H. "“Be the Dream Queen”: Gender Performativity, Femininity, and Transgender Sex Workers in China." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 21 (October 24, 2021): 11168. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182111168.
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An under-researched aspect of transgender sex workers in China pertains to their desires and expressions of femininity. Male-to-Female (MTF) transgender sex workers are a high-risk population prone to depression and stress regarding body image, intimate relationships marked by violence, and social stigma, rendering them vulnerable to hate crimes and discrimination. Ethnographic data from in-depth interviews with 49 MTF transgender sex workers indicate that sex, gender and feminine desire are mutable in the construction of self and subjectivity. This study uses the conceptual framework of gender performativity, that is, gender is performative and distinct from physical bodies and binary classifications. It is not only an individual’s normative gender expressions which are based on the sex assigned at birth, but it also reinforces the normative gender performances of the gender binary. This article argues that the 49 MTF transgender sex workers are embodiments of gendered performances, displaying femininity to ameliorate hate crimes and discrimination as well as reinforce the masculinity and sexuality of their clients and intimate sex partners. Embracing their femininity constitutes a self-help program, enabling them to build self-confidence and develop a positive self-image in the face of overwhelming social disapproval.