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Vollbrecht, Ralf, and Christine Dallmann. "Editorial: Transgender." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2017. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-227170.
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Das Begriffsfeld zu Transgender und verwandten Begriffen ist stark ausdifferenziert. Es soll hier nun nicht der Versuch unternommen werden, einen umfassenden Überblick über die komplexe Transgender-Thematik zu geben. Die Frage ist vielmehr, wie eine Pädagogik der Vielfalt am Beispiel von Transgender auch in Schulen umgesetzt werden kann und Schülerinnen und Schüler für dieses Thema sensibilisiert werden können.
Für eine pädagogische Auseinandersetzung eignen sich insbesondere Spielfilme – und mittlerweile gibt es eine ganze Reihe geeigneter Filme zum Thema Transgender. Der Film „Transamerica“, den Hamisch in ihrem Beitrag analysiert, verdeutlicht vor allem die Identitätsherausforderungen, denen sich die Protagonistin des Films stellen muss. Dies ermöglicht einen pädagogisch-didaktischen Zugang zum Thema, der nicht von normativen Positionen ausgeht, die die Schülerinnen und Schüler mitbringen, sondern zur Reflexion über die eigene Identität anregt.
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Monro, Surya. "Transgender politics." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.729311.
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Vollbrecht, Ralf, and Christine Dallmann. "Editorial: Transgender." Technische Universität Dresden, 2016. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A30425.
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Das Begriffsfeld zu Transgender und verwandten Begriffen ist stark ausdifferenziert. Es soll hier nun nicht der Versuch unternommen werden, einen umfassenden Überblick über die komplexe Transgender-Thematik zu geben. Die Frage ist vielmehr, wie eine Pädagogik der Vielfalt am Beispiel von Transgender auch in Schulen umgesetzt werden kann und Schülerinnen und Schüler für dieses Thema sensibilisiert werden können.
Für eine pädagogische Auseinandersetzung eignen sich insbesondere Spielfilme – und mittlerweile gibt es eine ganze Reihe geeigneter Filme zum Thema Transgender. Der Film „Transamerica“, den Hamisch in ihrem Beitrag analysiert, verdeutlicht vor allem die Identitätsherausforderungen, denen sich die Protagonistin des Films stellen muss. Dies ermöglicht einen pädagogisch-didaktischen Zugang zum Thema, der nicht von normativen Positionen ausgeht, die die Schülerinnen und Schüler mitbringen, sondern zur Reflexion über die eigene Identität anregt.
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Mileham, Amanda Lynn. "THE TRANSGENDER EXPERIENCE." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/393.
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The purpose of this research was to gain a better understanding of transgender people and allow participants to have a voice in describing the experience of those in the transgender community. This study was conducted utilizing qualitative analysis through individual interviews with six participants. One of the major key findings of this study was the prevalence of depression among all participants. Another key finding of this study found safety among peers to be an issue for those transitioning from male to female. From the findings, it is imperative for social work practitioners to understand this marginalized community and be sensitive to the issues they face, such as: higher rates of mortality, suicide, substance abuse, and mental health issues.
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Young, Andrew J. "From "Telling Transgender Stories" to "Transgender People Telling Stories": Transgender Literature and the Lambda Literary Awards, 1997-2017." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/486155.
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Transgender lives and identities have gained considerable popular notoriety in the past decades. As part of this wider visibility, dominant narratives regarding the “transgender experience” have surfaced in both the community itself and the wider public. Perhaps the most prominent of these narratives define transgender people as those living in the “wrong body” for their true gender identity. While a popular and powerful story, the wrong body narrative has been criticized as limited, not representing the experience of all transgender people, and valorized as the only legitimate identifier of transgender status. The dominance of this narrative has been challenged through the proliferation of alternate narratives of transgender identity, largely through transgender people telling their own stories, which has the potential to complicate and expand the social understanding of what it means to be transgender for both trans- and cisgender communities. I focus on transgender literature as a point of entrance into the changing narratives of transgender identity and experience. This work addresses two main questions: What are the stories being told by trans lit? and What are the stories being told about trans literature? What follows is a series of separate, yet linked chapters exploring the contours of transgender literature, largely through the context of the Lambda Literary Awards over the past twenty years. Chapter 2 explores the changing definitions of transgender literature in popular discourse over the last two decades. Drawing on a data set of 51 articles, interviews, book reviews, and blog posts published from 1997-2017, I present a framework for defining and categorizing transgender literature. This framework lays out the different possibilities of what transgender literature might be using the three variables of content, authorship, audience, as well as the likelihood of each iteration being included in the definition of transgender literature as understood in the popular conversation. My findings in this chapter suggest a changing definition of transgender literature from “telling transgender/transition stories” to a focus on “transgender people telling stories.” Chapter 3 moves from conversations defining trans literature to an exploration of how texts within transgender literature have changed over time. Using the finalist and winners in the Lambda Literary Award transgender categories, I constructed a sample of transgender literature covering the past two decades, from 1997-2016. Using digital textual analysis methods, I identify various “demographic” trends in transgender literature since 1997, which mirror the trend identified in chapter 3, a shift from “telling transgender stories” focused largely on identity and transition processes to “transgender people telling stories” which rely much less on transition and identity as central themes. Chapter 4 attempts to contextualize these shifts identified in chapters 2 and 3 by situating trans literature in a broader socio-historical context. I frame transgender literature as an intellectual movement situated in an intellectual opportunity structure that includes the publishing industry, LGBT social activism and organizations, and the Lambda Literary Awards themselves. Lambda Literary functions here as a primary gatekeeper for understanding transgender literature in a broader intellectual community around LGBT cultural production, which transitions us to thinking more critically about the Lambda Literary Awards in chapter 5. Chapter 5 introduces us more fully to the Lambda Literary Awards, the largest LGBT book awards in North America, and positions them as a claim for LGBT cultural citizenship in the United States. Using archival documents from the Lambda Literary Foundation, as well as published statements and articles about the Lambda Literary Awards, I explore three conflicts and controversies within the LGBT community through the localized claims for cultural citizenship made on the Lammys. Finally, I provide a brief conclusion, which recaps the main findings of each chapter, sketches my tentative hopes for the future of transgender literature, and outlines my recommendations for future research in this area.
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Unéus, Danielle, and Emil Christenson. "Transgender in Games : A Comparative Study of Transgender Characters in Games." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för speldesign, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-330774.
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This thesis contains an analysis of transgender characters in games. The method for selecting the characters was based on the importance of the character in the game with the requirement that the game must have sold at least half a million units. The goal was to analyse well-known characters in gaming history to get an overview of how the game industry has represented transgender in games. Out of 102 characters only six of them met the requirements and have been analysed with the use of queer theory. Gender and how the characters break the norms of what is feminine and what is masculine is in focus. In the analysis, the characters are examined through their mannerism, design, personality and dialogue. The analysis is then summarized into identifiable patterns. The result of this thesis is a better understanding of how transgender characters are portrayed in the game industry.
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Kessler, Aaron. "Transgender Experiences in Healthcare." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1588334197961745.
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Byrd, Rebekah J. "Transgender Issues on Campus." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/905.
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ANZANI, ANNALISA. "Transgender Health: A Minority Stress Perspective On The Clinical Work With Transgender Individuals." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/273355.
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Il presente lavoro di tesi ha lo scopo di comprendere come l'ambiente sociale e le interazioni interpersonali influenzino la salute mentale e il benessere degli individui gender-variant, affrontando alcune delle questioni rilevanti nel campo dal punto di vista della psicologia sociale e clinica. I primi tre studi presentati nella tesi adottano la prospettiva della psicologia sociale per studiare le esperienze di discriminazione affrontate dagli individui transgender in contesti di salute mentale. Esamineremo il problema da due diversi punti di vista: quello degli psicoterapeuti e quello dei clienti transgender che si sono avvicinati ai servizi di salute mentale. Il primo studio mira a studiare il ruolo del pregiudizio anti-transgender nella valutazione psicologica dei pazienti transgender (vs. cisgender) in un campione di campione di psicoterapeute esperte. Il secondo studio è volto a indagare un campione di psicoterapeuti sia microaggressivo nei confronti di clienti lesbiche o transgender (rispetto a una cliente eterosessuale cisgender). Il terzo studio assume la prospettiva delle persone transgender che accedono ai contesti di salute mentale. Al fine di fornire una maggiore comprensione delle esperienze delle persone transgender che accedono a un servizio di psicoterapia, lo studio si propone di indagare le loro esperienze positive di microaffermazione dell’identità all'interno di una relazione terapeutica. Gli ultimi due studi saranno focalizzati sulle conseguenze del minority stress per la salute mentale e il benessere degli individui transgender. Il quarto studio è intrinsecamente clinico e si focalizzerà sull'indagine della personalità di uomini e donne transgender medicalizzati, valutando sia i domini di personalità dimensionali proposti dal Modello Alternativo di Disturbi della personalità sia le diagnosi categoriche del Disturbo di personalità DSM-IV . Il quinto studio esaminerà gli effetti delle norme sociali di genere in un diverso dominio psicologico, cioè la sessualità. In particolare, lo studio si concentrerà sull'immaginario e sulla fantasia sessuale, che sono aspetti chiave della sessualità umana in quanto associati all'eccitazione e alla risposta sessuale.The present work is aimed at understanding how social environment and interpersonal interactions influence the mental health and well-being of gender-diverse individuals, approaching some of the relevant issues in the field from the perspective of both social and clinical psychology. The first three studies presented in the thesis adopt the perspective of social psychology to investigate the experiences of discrimination faced by transgender individuals in mental health contexts. We will look at the problem from two different viewpoint: the one of psychotherapists and the one of transgender clients that approached mental health services. The first study aims at investigating the role of anti-transgender bias in the psychological assessment of transgender (vs. cisgender) patients in a sample of female sample of licensed psychotherapists. The second study aims at investigating whether microaggressions are perpetrated by psychotherapists when confronted to lesbian or transgender fictitious clients (vs. cisgender heterosexual). The third study assumes the perspective of transgender people accessing mental health contexts. In order to provide an understanding of transgender peoples’ help-seeking experiences, the study aimed to investigate their positive experiences of identity microaffirmations within a therapeutic relationship. The last two studies will be focused on the consequences of minority stress for the mental health and well-being of transgender individuals. The fourth study is inherently clinical and will be focused on the investigation of personality patterns of medicalized transgender men and women, by evaluating both the dimensional personality domains proposed by the Alternative Model of Personality Disorders and the categorical DSM-IV personality disorder (PD) diagnoses. The fifth study will look at the effects of societal gender norms in a different psychological domain, that is sexuality. In particular, the study will focus on sexual
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Papazian, Natasha A. "Transgender domestic violence: An analysis of the transgender community and service provision in Queensland." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2018. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/118621/1/Natasha_Papazian_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis examines domestic violence in the transgender community in Queensland, Australia. Interviews with eight transgender people and five transgender-friendly service providers investigated: transgender people's experiences of domestic violence; the unique issues faced by transgender people; and challenges and barriers for transgender people accessing support services. Utilising the continuum of violence, this thesis finds that domestic violence in the transgender community is an extension of the structural inequality and violence that transgender people experience in their everyday lives. These experiences inform and influence recognition of and help-seeking for domestic violence.
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Saunders, Inez. "Die beleweniswereld van transgender adolessente." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/80162.
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Thesis (MEdPsych)--Stellenbosch University, 2013.Bibliography
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: A literature search done by the researcher has noted that there is little information available regarding transadolescents’ experience within the South African context. In a society that only acknowledges two genders, transgenderism remains invisible. The transgender minority group tends to be more neglected, misunderstood and stigmatized than their homosexual peers. Transadolescents, who are already in a challenging phase of development, are at risk for negative outcomes such as bullying, scholastic problems, social isolation and depression. The aim of this research is therefore to explore and describe the transadolescents’ subjective experience in their own words. To facilitate this process the research was positioned in the interpretative/constructionist paradigm, in terms of which it is based on the premise that subjective experiences are created during social interaction. Bronfenbrenner’s bio-ecological model was used as theoretical framework to illustrate the reciprocal interactions between the various micro- and macrosystems. The qualitative research approach was used to explicate the essence of the participants’ lived experience. Phenomenology was selected as the most appropriate research design. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with three transadolescents and thematic analysis was used to code and organise the data and to present it in the form of a narrative report. Five themes and associated categories were identified. It was found that the transadolescent experiences identity formation as particularly challenging and that there are individual differences between self-identities and gender expressions. The process of disclosure towards parents is accompanied by considerable anxiety and there are major differences in the disclosure practices that are followed. Parents’ reactions differ and can range from acceptance to eviction. Preference is given to friends who are also seen as being ‘different’ and it can be quite a relief to share their identity with friends regardless of their reactions. Even though South Africa has a policy of inclusive education, the reality is one of discrimination, bullying and isolation. Furthermore, medical services in South Africa are inadequate and transadolescents are exposed to discrimination and unsympathetic professionals. Consequently much must still be done to promote understanding of transadolescents, so that the different contexts in which they move can be better prepared to deliver effective and supportive services.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Tans is daar beperkte inligting beskikbaar omtrent die transadolessent se beleweniswêreld binne die Suid-Afrikaanse konteks. Binne ‘n samelewing wat slegs twee genders erken, speel transgenderisme agter geslote deure af. Die transgender-minderheidsgroep word meer afgeskeep, misverstaan en gestigmatiseer as hul homoseksuele eweknieë. Binne ‘n alreeds uitdagende ontwikkelingsfase, is die transadolessent besonder weerloos vir negatiewe uitkomste soos afknouery, skolastiese probleme, sosiale isolasie en depressie. Die doel van die studie is gevolglik om die transadolessent se subjektiewe belewenis in hul eie woorde te verken en te beskryf. Om hierdie proses te fasiliteer is die studie geposisioneer in die interpretatiewe/ konstruksionistiese paradigma wat voorstel dat subjektiewe ervarings tydens sosiale interaksie geskep word. Bronfenbrenner se bio-ekologiese model is as teoretiese raamwerk gebruik om hierdie wederkerige interaksie tussen die verskillende mikrostelsels en die makrostelsel te illustreer. Die kwalitatiewe navorsingsbenadering is gevolg om ‘n waarheidsgetroue beeld weer te gee van die deelnemers se subjektiewe belewenis en fenomenologie is as mees geskikte navorsingsontwerp gekies. Semi-gestruktureerde onderhoude is met drie transadolessente gevoer en die data is met behulp van die tematiese analise gekodeer, georganiseer en in ‘n narratiewe verslagvorm weergegee. Die data-analise het gelei tot die identifisering van vyf temas en gepaardgaande kategorieë. Daar is bevind dat identiteitsvorming ‘n uitdagende proses vir die transadolessent is en dat individue se self-identiteit en uitlewing van hul identiteit verskil. Die openbaarmakingsproses aan ouers gaan met geweldige angstigheid gepaard en daar is groot individuele verskille in die wyse waarop dit geskied. Ouers reageer verskillend en dit wissel van algehele aanvaarding tot uitsetting. Voorkeur word gegee aan vriende wat ook as ‘anders’ bestempel word en ongeag vriende se reaksie, is dit ‘n verligting om hul identiteit te deel. Ten spyte daarvan dat Suid-Afrika inklusiewe onderwyspraktyke voorstaan, is die realiteit een van diskriminasie, afknouery en isolasie. Voorts is die mediese dienste in Suid-Afrika ontoereikend en transadolessente word blootgestel aan diskriminasie en onsimpatieke professionele persone. Te oordeel hieraan, moet daar baie gedoen word om die transadolessente beter te verstaan sodat die verskillende kontekste waarbinne hulle beweeg, beter voorbereid is om effektiewe en ondersteunende dienste te lewer.
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Couch, Chelsey. "Identity Integration Among Transgender Christians." OpenSIUC, 2021. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1956.
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Transgender populations are at higher risk for negative health and psychological outcomes compared to cisgender populations (Rood et al., 2017). Previous research has explored ways in which Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual people who are religious reconcile their identities (Britton & Greene, 2015), however; there is a scarcity of literature regarding identity-related experiences of transgender Christians. Given that many LGBTQ+ people do not find religious environments accepting due to homophobia and transphobic sentiments (Barnes & Meyer, 2012), the purpose of this study was to shed light on salient experiences of transgender Christians as they have made sense of their identities. Through interpretative phenomenological analysis, I examined various psychosocial processes that occur for transgender Christians regarding experiences with transphobia, rejection, and ways in which they navigated oppressive social or religious environments. Four main themes emerged through the participants’ qualitative accounts of their experiences: (a) Meaning of Identity, (b) Challenges and Barriers, (c) Positive Experiences and Self-Compassion, and (d) Community Responsibility. Research and clinical implications for improving psychological outcomes for this population are discussed.
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Maxwell, Bailey. "Transgender Representation in Mainstream Advertising." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2019. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1505163/.
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This study focuses on the transgender community's presence and portrayal in advertisements that reach a broad, mainstream audience base. Through a mixed-methods use of focus groups and qualitative content analysis, the content, context, and framings of ads between the years 2015 and 2018 are explored to illustrate current portrayals of the trans community and how the industry is approaching this subcultural group. Its findings contribute to advertising research by exploring current trends in trans portrayals in the cultural context they exist. Because trans advertising in both LGBTQ+ publications and to mainstream audience is largely unexplored, this study seeks to begin a conversation among advertising professionals. The main objective is to ultimately improve the number of genuine, positive portrayals of trans people in advertising and hold the industry accountable for the role they play in serving this community.
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Robinson, Michael James. "Transgender Inclusion in the Workplace." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1404370756.
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Norman, Kathleen. "'Socializing transgender' : social care and transgender people in Scotland : a review of statutory and voluntary services and other transgender experiences of social care support." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/20407.
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A paucity of knowledge of social care services to transgender people in Scotland led to this research. Medical and social care services take very different approaches to the needs of migratory transgender people. The research design involved online questionnaires and interviews with statutory service commissioners and providers, and with voluntary organisations and transgender people themselves. A framework of three research questions underpinned the research, firstly looking at the nature of dedicated and generic support services in Scotland, secondly exploring assistance relating to transgender identity and status, and thirdly considering additional support to transgender people within their relationships and their communities. Data analysis was influenced by grounded theory in the development of themes and sub-themes which structured the research findings. The research findings indicate limited planning, guidance, training and policy development to facilitate access to generic services by transgender people. Dedicated service provision was found to be often limited to adults during transition whilst transgender children and young people, and family members including partners and parents, received limited support. A range of alternative sources of support, including transgender support groups, gender specialists, GPs, counsellors/psychiatrists and social care staff, were found to provide varying levels of support to transgender people with gender identity, transition, family support, documentation, transgender linked mental health problems and with long-term physical or other mental ill health issues. Approximately half of transgender respondents indicated that social work advice and support would be valued for each of the above categories, and that additional support would also be valued regarding making plans for the future, conflicts with family, friends, colleagues or neighbours, social isolation, social rejection, and with developing a more confident community presence. The thesis concludes with a proposal for a re-balancing of the historical systematic ‘medicalization’ of transgender, by a process of socializing transgender, through advocacy work seeking greater understanding and acceptance of transgender people and the adoption of a transgender legal status, and through the provision of the wide range of additional social care support to transgender people noted above, particularly during the socialization phase of transition and beyond.
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Hill, Darryl B. "Understanding, knowing, and telling transgender identities." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ30289.pdf.
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Fraine, Shawn M. "Sexual Victimization of the Transgender Population." Thesis, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10750694.
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This study examined sexual victimization, resilience, and revictimization in the transgender community. Participants were recruited nationally through targeted Facebook advertising. This study observed that transgender participants were more likely to experience victimization and revictimization when compared to cisgender participants. It was also observed that transgender participants had more positive attitudes toward help-seeking but scored lower on a resilience scale than cisgender and sexual minorities. Implications will be discussed.
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Schnebelt, Bryan A. "Art Therapy Considerations with Transgender Individuals." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2015. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/154.
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This qualitative research study examines the use of art therapy as a treatment modality with transgender individuals, as well as provides a brief background into transgender identity, in order to recognize considerations for enhanced care of this population. A semi-structured interview approach was applied with art therapists who have utilized art therapy with transgender clients. This study focuses on areas of identity development, aspects of trauma and transphobia and their effects, treatment approaches, and cultural components to working with transgender individuals. Through this research, a recognition of transgender identity as its own cultural entity was found to be important in providing increased awareness and visibility of transgender treatment concerns.
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Click, Ivy A., Abbey K. Mann, Morgan Buda, Anahita Rahimi-Saber, Abby Schultz, K. Maureen Shelton, and Leigh Johnson. "Transgender Health Education for Medical Students." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1111/tct.13074.
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Background Transgender individuals face numerous health disparities and report negative experiences with health care providers related to their gender identity. Significant gaps in medical education regarding transgender health persist despite calls for increased sexual and gender minority content. The purpose of this student‐led study was to assess the effectiveness of a half‐day educational intervention on first‐ and second‐year medical students’ attitudes and knowledge of transgender health. Methods Students and faculty members collaborated to develop an educational session on transgender health. This content was presented to first‐ and second‐year medical students at Integrated Grand Rounds, a pedagogical method in which basic science and clinical faculty members co‐present didactic content interspersed between live patient interviews and student‐led small group discussions. Student participants (n = 138) completed voluntary 9‐item pre‐ and post‐session surveys assessing comfort with and knowledge of transgender medicine. Results Students’ comfort with and perceived knowledge about transgender patients increased significantly between pre‐ and post‐test. Students’ knowledge of transgender medicine standards of care also improved, though not all items reached significance. Discussion A half‐day educational intervention improved many facets of medical students’ attitudes and knowledge about transgender patients. The significant disparities in physical health, mental health and access to care currently experienced by transgender persons in the United States warrants the continued testing and refinement of educational interventions for future and practising providers.
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Waller, Dylan Ellingson. "Therapy and the Nontraditional Transgender Narrative." PDXScholar, 2015. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2336.
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The history of transgender identity is inextricable from the mental health industry. Since the late 1970's transgender people have required permission from mental health professionals to make medical modifications to their sex characteristics. During the time of this research, it was difficult for transgender individuals to receive the hormones or surgeries they desire without first being diagnosed with Gender Identity Disorder (GID).
This study applies labeling theory to the label of GID. Labeling theory poses that if an individual is labeled with a mental illness, they will either reject or accept the label. Acceptance of the mentally ill label will cause the individual to adopt characteristics expected of the label.
The intent of this study is to examine the relationship between mental health therapy and the formation of transgender identities. Utilizing labeling theory, it analyzes whether or not transgender participants of this study accepted or rejected the mental illness label of GID. It was originally posed that if transgender individuals accepted the label of GID, they would experience a shift in their gender identity.
However, the overwhelming majority of the twelve participants interviewed rejected the label of GID. Even though most participants rejected the GID label, many still saw a shift in gender identity while attending therapy. This thesis proposes that there may be a link between a transgender person’s reason for entering therapy and identity shift. Those who felt obligated to go to therapy for the sole reason of gaining permission to change their sex characteristics saw no change in identity. However, those who wanted help in exploring their gender with a therapist saw identity changes while in therapy.
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Wood, Kayla M. "Media Ethics and Violence Against the Transgender Community: An Exploration of Ethically Covering Homicides of Black Transgender Women." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors155622553403116.
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Dhinakaran, Sharon. "Behind the Mask| Unveiling a Transgender Story." Thesis, Regent University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10634803.
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?Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest? (New International Version, Matthew 11:28). In South India, transgenders are treated as untouchables and part of the least in the society. This restriction that the society places on transgenders has built hurt and regret in their lives. The Bible tells us to treat everyone equal and Jesus asks us to love all unconditionally; at times, it is difficult to put that teaching into practice. This topic was originally chosen to investigate this community and find a biblical approach to them, but working with Seesha, a non-profit, the approach took a different direction. The following research and documentary will focus on the acts of Jesus, that is, educating and empowering. This is in hope to bring awareness to the rejection of the transgender community and possible ways to change the perspective of society by choosing to accept them. The aim of this project is to try to lessen the burden of life in transgenders (stigma), by educating the society of their physical anatomy, lifestyle and daily struggle for a better standard of living.
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McNeil, Jay. "An exploration of transgender people's mental health." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2016. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/80826/.
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This thesis explores trans-minority mental health, and in particular the application of the Minority Stress Hypothesis (MSH) as a framework for understanding the high rates of poor mental health, suicidal ideation and suicide attempts, seen in trans populations. It is comprised of four sections. The first section consists of a systematic literature review exploring factors which relate to suicidal ideation and attempts (SIA) in trans people. A systematic search of nine databases resulted in 27 papers. Discrimination and other negative experiences were related to increased SIA, whereas social interactions and access to support were protective, although some limitations to the study are also discussed. The second section is an empirical cross-sectional study to test aspects of the MSH. Specifically it examines the relationship between discrimination, internalised transphobia and negative expectations with the outcomes of depression, anxiety and stress. It also explores whether functional social support moderates these relationships. The study found high rates of poor mental health among the 250 participants, which were indeed related to the three predictor variables. Multiple regression analyses demonstrated that these outcomes were predicted by discrimination and internalised transphobia, but not negative expectations. Social support did not moderate the relationships between predictors and outcomes. The third section comprises of a critical appraisal of the thesis process and studies herein. However, a substantial focus of this concerns issues specific to research with trans populations, and limitations of the current available evidence base. The final section collates the ethical application process and study materials. Overall, the studies reported here highlight the need for psychologists to work at structural and community levels, rather than simply at the individual level, if the mental health of these marginalised and oppressed groups is truly to improve.
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Seidl, Helma. "Transgender : a study of quality of life." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=115650.
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This research presents a new way to improve inclusiveness for the variety of transgender self-identities in clinical settings. The spectrum of transgender identities were clustered into two groups: the fixed -- representing transgender individuals who preferred identification with the gender binary male or female, and the fluid -- representing transgender individuals that favor openness and flexibility on the gender continuum. Furthermore, different scales, the Memorial University of Newfoundland's Scale of Happiness (MUNSH) (Kozma, & Stones, 1980) and Bradley's Well-Being Scale (BWB) (Bradley, 1994), Self-Confidence Scale (Oakley, 1996, 1998) and Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) (Cohen, 1994) were investigated for their reliability with transgender clients. The fixed and fluid transgender groups were then used as the key criterion for investigating differences in quality of life (QOL), self-confidence, stress and counselling satisfaction. Using combined quantitative as well as qualitative methodology, data was analyzed for a sample of 145 transgender people. Mean age was 42.27. Quality of life for the fluid transgender group was <extremely low,> the group difference was not significant Stress was expectedly very high in both groups, but interestingly self-confidence was also high. The mean difference between the fixed (M=17.44) and fluid (M=20.82) transgender groups was statistically significant. One in four transgender individuals identified either as <neutral> or <dissatisfied to very dissatisfied> with their counselling experience. The dissatisfaction was higher in the fluid transgender group. One hundred eleven transgender participants (111) completed seven open-ended questions and 11 participated in a semi-structured, face-to-face interview process, guided by thirteen questions. The stories of the participants demonstrated how a gender specific upbringing affects transgender individuals through: themes of shame, guilt, and anger. While, transgender individuals developed survival techniques such as daydreaming and fantasizing, negative coping methods such as alcohol abuse, drug abuse and self-harm were also common. Family was identified as the dominant factor in reinforcing gender appropriate behaviour. To improve clinical care these findings should be taken into consideration.
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Phibbs, Suzanne. "Transgender identities and narrativity: Performativity, agency corporeality." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Sociology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/4635.
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A study of transgender embodiment provides a unique vantage point from which to examine how people take up, and are constituted by, ideas about sex and gender. Discontinuities between the anatomical bodies and social identities of transgendered people trouble conventional understandings about bodies and selves. At the same time people who use gender reassignment technologies attach considerable authority to normalising discourses about bodies and identities, masculinity and femininity. This thesis explores subjectivity, agency, citizenship and community through analyses of conversations with 'transgendered' people in Australia and New Zealand.
The thesis consists of distinct but interrelated essays that explore the relationship between global technologies and the local achievement of identities. It illustrates how conversations about identity in transgendered social spaces are also discussions about the medicalisation of sex and gender and the social/institutional expectations associated with particular gender identities. Attention to the situated dimensions of social interaction suggests that it is not just discourses, but also corporeality and spaces, that make certain subject positions available to actors. Holding 'public stories' and the particularistic features of personal narratives in play, I argue that both stories and identities emerge from interaction - shifting and changing according to the spaces and times in which they are embedded.
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Zitz, C. "Friendships in the lives of transgender individuals." Thesis, Canterbury Christ Church University, 2011. http://create.canterbury.ac.uk/10327/.
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Section A provides a literature review of transgender people and their friendships. The first part of the literature review explores the historical context of transgenderism and its relation to medical and psychiatric diagnosis. The following part concentrates on biopsychsocial issues of transgender identity formation highlighting the need for support in light of interpersonal losses and societal discrimination. The final part reviews the friendship literature more generally, then specifically in relation to transgender persons. The review concludes by identifying an absence of friendship research with transgender individuals and suggesting directions for future research. Section B describes a study carried out with seven trans men, which investigates discourses they use to construct friendships and negotiate intimacy within friendships. While research focusing on friendships of sexual minority individuals has increased over the last two decades, studies of transgender persons’ friendships have been largely absent. Given that trans individuals are vulnerable to a range of psychological stressors in the context of societal lack of understanding and discrimination, friendships may be particularly important. This study explored the gap in the friendship literature and drew on creative methodologies (drawing of systems maps) that offered empowering strategies to facilitate trans men’s stories of friendships. Foucauldian Discourse Analysis was applied to analyse discourses of friendship and gender identity. Dominant discourses identified included ‘friends as family’, ‘romantic love’, ‘equality and reciprocity’, ‘change in lesbian friendships’ and ‘disowning male privilege’. The results indicate that trans men elevate the status of friends to those of other culturally dominant relationships (e.g. biological family or sexual partner). Furthermore, their friendships, in particular lesbian friendships, can become complex platforms from which to contest privilege and power associated with their (trans) masculinities. Implications for further research and clinical practice are discussed. Section C provides a critical appraisal of the study and offers the researcher’s reflections on research skills developed, what she would do differently if she could do the project again, how the research may impact her clinically and what further research she would like to carry out.
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Taylor, Melanie. "Changing subjects : transgender consciousness and the 1920s." Thesis, University of York, 2000. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10886/.
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Westerfield, Elijah. "Transgender Peoples? Experiences of Religion and Spirituality." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2012. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/26550.
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The purpose of this study was to examine the religious and spiritual experiences of transgender people. The study used an existing data set consisting of interviews from five self-identified Christian transgender participants, of which 1 was female-to-male, and 4 were male-to-female. Feminist phenomenology guided all aspects of this project. The results of the study suggest that participants felt a connection with a higher power, and specifically viewed themselves as made as transgender by God. However, the results of this study also indicated that transgender people feel conflicted about how others perceive them based on their (others') religious beliefs, with participants experiencing both supportive and discriminatory responses toward them.
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Garris, Bill R., and Bethany A. Novotny. "TRANSformation; Affecting Transgender Prejudice in the Classroom." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3151.
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Social discrimination is a common experience with measurable consequences for those affected. The effects include poorer mental health and poverty, issues which are commonly addressed by human service professionals. People who are transgender are particular targets of discrimination and, as such, find themselves in need of human service assistance at levels disproportionate to the larger population. Research from social psychology suggests that intergroup contact reduces prejudice. This quasi-experiment explored the effect a transgender speaker, followed by informal social interaction, had on measures of transgender prejudice in a sample of college students
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Wilder, Shannon M. J. "Resilience from Violence in the Transgender Community." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1498051485277639.
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Wilder, Shannon Marie Johnson. "Resilience from Violence in the Transgender Community." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1530112472869158.
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Widmer, T. K. "Performing Transition: Depictions of the Transgender Experience." VCU Scholars Compass, 2012. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/362.
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Minority groups have long faced a lack of representation in the entertainment industry. Too often when representation does exist it relied on stereotype and convention. This too is often the fate of transgender individuals when they are depicted on the screen and stage. The majority of film and television depictions of transgender individuals are inadequate. When they are depicted at all the portrayals rarely rise above trope, archetypes, and conventions. Most often the identity of the transgender individual is invalidated. Very rarely are transgender people’s identities supported. This thesis explores my own personal connection with the topic, builds a vocabulary with which to discuss the subject, examines existing film and television performances of transgender characters, and finally examines how new portrayals might challenge the existing stereotypes. I hope that this thesis, which explores a topic not often discussed, will open the door for a new theatre that supports and affirms the identities of the transgender population while managing not to sensationalize or exploit their stories for the simple entertainment of a cisgender dominated society.
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Smidova, Eva. "Transgender Parent Differentiation: A Heuristic Phenomenological Study." Diss., NSUWorks, 2019. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_dft_etd/50.
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Transgender individuals go through their intrapersonal differentiation between covert “I” (expressed gender) and overt “I” (assigned gender), often unnoticed by family members before their coming out. Consequently, their coming out rockets anxiety in the family system and the process of differentiation of transgender parents seem to go through its unique path to search for equilibrium. Recent social and clinical studies about transgender parents have paid attention to the experience and challenges of the gender transition process, social pressure, acceptance of transgender individuals in a parenting role, and readiness of families to cope with the transition of a parent (Bischof, Warnaar, Barajas, & Dhaliwal, 2011; Chung, 2016; Di Ceglie, 1998; Freedman, Tasker, & Di Ceglie, 2002; Haines, Ajayi, & Boyd, 2014; Hines, 2006; Theron & Collier, 2013; Veldorale-Griffin, 2014; White & Ettner, 2004, 2007). No research study has attempted to explore the essence of transgender parenting and the related self-differentiation process (Bowen, 1978; Kerr & Bowen, 1988). In this research, I intended to address this gap in knowledge by utilizing a heuristic phenomenological research design to explore the essence of parenting and self-differentiation of transgender parents. I used interviews with ten transgender parents, both females, and males, to embrace the elements of the lived experienced. The first conducted heuristic analysis revealed five emerging themes: Selfish Unselfishness: Becoming Me; Relationship with My Close Family: It is About Respect; Battle of Emotions: Do the Right Thing; Competence, Confidence, and Legacy: This Is How We Do It. Or Not; and Life Satisfaction: Welcome to My World. The second, qualitative data analysis, brought evidence of these qualities of self-differentiation: Balancing Individuality and Togetherness; Balancing Thoughts and Feelings; and Self-differentiation in the Expressed Gender.
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Rossett, Alexandra Tye. "Student affairs professionals' knowledge and perceptions of transgender issues in higher education /." Abstract Full Text (PDF) Survey (PDF), 2009. http://eprints.ccsu.edu/archive/00000574/02/2015FT.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S.) -- Central Connecticut State University, 2009.Thesis advisor: Jane Fried. "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Counseling." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 26-28). Also available via the World Wide Web.
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Fuks, Oleksandr. "Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender immigrant acculturation experience." Thesis, McGill University, 2014. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=123207.
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The goal of the current study was to understand the process of acculturation of LGBT immigrants to Canada. I used the grounded theory approach to obtain an in-depth interpretive understanding of the subjective experience and perceptions related to the acculturation process of LGBT immigrants. The emerged grounded theory revealed that the acculturation experience of LGBT immigrants is formed by two consistent parallel subprocesses: cultural identity development and sexual identity development. Data analysis demonstrated that queerphobia in the culture of origin was a central phenomenon of the grounded theory, and played the most dominant role in the development of cultural and sexual parts of the LGBT immigrants' identity. Furthermore, the culture of LGBT immigrants' country of origin, as well as Canadian culture, strongly influenced their sexual identity development before and after immigration, and vice versa – their sexual identity development influenced the way LGBT immigrants relate to their culture of origin and to the Canadian culture before and after immigration. Moreover, the emerged grounded theory suggested that in the case of LGBT immigrants, the acculturation process often begins long before the beginning of the actual immigration process, as LGBT immigrants often assume a Western orientation as a response to queerphobia in their culture of origin. In addition, this study identified the perceived challenges and advantages that LGBT immigrants experience during the acculturation process, as well as presented variables responsible for the variety of acculturation outcomes. Finally, the study provided clinical implications and recommendations for mental health practitioners regarding the design and implementation of micro and macro level interventions that address multiple challenges LGBT immigrants face in their acculturation process.L'objectif de la présente étude était de comprendre le processus d'acculturation des immigrants LGBT au Canada. J'ai utilisé l'approche de théorisation ancrée pour obtenir une compréhension interpretative en profondeur de l'expérience subjective et des perceptions liées au processus d'acculturation des immigrants LGBT. La theorie ancrée générée a révélé que l'expérience de l'acculturation des immigrants LGBT est formée de deux sous-processus parallèles cohérents: le développement de l'identité culturelle et de développement de l'identité sexuelle. L'analyse des données a montré que la queerphobie dans la culture d'origine est un phénomène central de la théorie ancrée, et a joué un rôle des plus prépondérant dans le développement des parties : culturelle et sexuelle de l'identité des immigrants LGBT. En outre, la culture du pays d'origine des immigrants LGBT, ainsi que la culture canadienne, a fortement influencé le développement de leur identité sexuelle avant et après leur immigration, et vice versa - le développement de leur identité sexuelle a influencé la façon dont les immigrants LGBT se rapportent à leur culture d'origine et à la culture canadienne. D'autre part, la théorie ancrée générée a suggéré que, dans le cas des immigrants LGBT, le processus d'acculturation commence souvent bien avant le début du processus d'immigration en lui même, les immigrants LGBT mettent en avant leur orientation vers l'occident comme opposition à la « queerphobie » dans leur culture d'origine. De surcroît, cette étude a identifié les défis et les avantages perçus que les immigrants LGBT vivent durant le processus d'acculturation, ainsi que les facteurs présentés dans l'étude responsables de la variété des résultats d'acculturation. Enfin, l'étude a fourni des implications et des recommandations cliniques pour les professionnels de la santé mentale concernant la conception et la mise en œuvre des interventions au niveau micro et macro qui répondent à de multiples défis. Défis auquels les immigrants LGBT font face dans leur processus d'acculturation.
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Brown, Suzanne. "Transgender experiences : exploring identity transition and therapists' attitudes." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2017. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/95593/.
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Gender identity is a burgeoning topic as people increasingly present to the National Health Service for assistance with gender incongruence concerns. The fluidity of gender and unique transition experience warrant further exploration given increased visibility of this topic. Also, with growing prevalence rates of people identifying as transgender, it is paramount the attitudinal responses of health care providers are investigated, given their crucial role in forging therapeutic relationships. This thesis informs understanding of transition experiences and current knowledge of mental health practitioners’ attitudes towards the transgender population. Chapter one is a critical systematic review of quantitative and mixed methodology research exploring mental health professionals’ attitudes towards transgender people. Database and manual searches revealed thirteen studies appropriate for inclusion. Mental health professionals report overall positive attitudes; however, demographic variables were found to influence attitudes. The review highlights inadequate scales that conflate sub-populations of transgender people and were often adapted from scales measuring attitudes towards sexual orientation. Areas for future research are discussed. Chapter two is a qualitative research study that explored the lived experience of transition with six Male to Female transgender participants. Using interpretative phenomenological analysis emergent findings relate to transition heterogeneity, intersectional forms of discrimination, and, authentic identity expression post-transition. Clinical and service implications are discussed alongside areas of future research. Chapter three is a reflective account applying relevant theories of intersectionality to the researcher’s self, research process and experiences while on the doctorate. It explores the parallels between the research area and facets influencing identity transition before embarking on professional qualification.
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Rodman, Kate. "Transgender people?s experiences in substance abuse treatment." Thesis, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3743752.
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This narrative study sought to document the substance abuse treatment experiences of transgender people. Individual interviews were conducted with eight participants, and the data were transcribed and analyzed. Participant interviews were discussed. Thirteen themes emerge from the interviews: Making Meaning of Addiction, Considering Discrimination, Additional Services, Provider Relationships, Program Community, Community Involvement, Recovery Approach, Self-Protection, Seeking Sobriety, Family Relationships, Other Self-Care, Feelings of Isolation, and Program Policies. Recommendations for substance abuse treatment programs that emerge from participant experiences and data analysis are put forth.
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Mann, Abbey K., Ivy A. Click, M. Buda, A. Rahimi-Saber, Abby Schultz, and K. Lee. "Healthcare Providers’ Attitudes and Knowledge About Transgender Patients." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6382.
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Wilson, Milo S. "Violence and Mental Health in the Transgender Community." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1385412105.
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Faulkner, Jamie. "Pre-teenage Transgender Children: Their Families and Education." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1435244358.
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Jones, Joshua B. "TransTV: Transgender Visibility and Representation in Serialized Television." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1469625819.
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Couch, Teresa A. "Culturally Sensitive Transgender Education for Health Care Providers." Xavier University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1524653365586249.
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Horlacher, Stefan. "Transgender and Intersex: Theoretical, Practical, and Artistic Perspectives." Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A37639.
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This article serves as an introduction to the phenomena of transgender and intersex, contextualizes these fields of studies, and delineates the major aims of this research anthology, that being: to take both transgender and intersex positions into account and—instead of playing them off against each other—to ask about commonalities and strategic alliances, in terms of knowledge, theory, philosophy, art, and life experience. The aim is to strike a balance between work on literature, film, photography, law, sports, and general theory, bringing together humanistic approaches with social science approaches and integrating lenses for studying gender. Further, this introduction argues that what is needed is a non-hierarchical, multi-perspective approach that endeavors to overcome the limitations of sex and gender research within the disciplines and fields of studies mentioned above by asking how transgender and intersex issues are negotiated and conceptualized from a variety of different points of view, what specific findings arise from there, and to what extent artistic and creative discourses offer their own uniquely relevant forms of knowledge and expression. The last part of this article introduces the reader to the different contributions, emphasizing how they relate to and communicate with each other.
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Hines, Sally. "Transgender identities, intimate relationships and practices of care." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2004. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/250/.
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This thesis is concerned with the social construction and formation of transgender identities, the impact of gender transition upon intimate relationships and the practices of transgender care networks. The research is linked to the ERSC research group Care, Values and the Future of Welfare (CAVA) and the focus of the project is in line with CAVA's enquiry into contemporary shifts in family, partnering and parenting practices, and the implications of these for future policy. The thesis is based on in-depth qualitiative interviews with thirty trans me and women who were purposely selected to reflect the diversity of transgender identity positions and experiences of gender transition. The overall theoretical concern for the thesis relates to transgender as a site through which to theorise gender identities as lying on a continuum of structure and agency; to signify identity as a fluid and contested concept, but one which also 'matters'. The study is developed from a queer sociological perspective, which is influenced by social theories of identity and engages directly with poststructuralist cultural theory. Additionally the study aims to bring a sociological analytic to the growing field of published literature within transgender studies. The work relates to contemporary sociological studies of identity, the body gender, sexuality, and practices of intimacy and care, and contributes to current debates about embodiment, reflexivity, agency and cultural difference. Located on the intersections of social theory, queer theory and transgender studies, the study represents the first UK empirical sociological study of transgender practices of identity, intimacy and care.
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Rose, Katrina Cordray. "Forgotten paths: American transgender legal history, 1955-2009." Diss., University of Iowa, 2018. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6260.
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Transgender law and politics may seem to have been nonexistent prior to the 21st century. This dissertation argues that the timeline of transgender progress should begin much earlier and the measure of success should be recalibrated. As early as 1955, states enacted legislation allowing transsexual persons to change their legal sex status. By the end of the 20th century, over half of America’s states had such statutes. I argue that these should be acknowledged as LGBT civil rights successes as significant as any other.
Most early sexual orientation anti-discrimination laws omitted protections for trans people, based either on a belief that they were not attainable or that trans issues were not even a proper gay rights concern. Often engaging in direct confrontation, trans people in Minnesota demonstrated that that exclusion was not the only possible civil rights path, securing inclusion in local law in 1975 and in state law two decades later, while other states still maintained an exclusionary mindset.
The lesson trans people learned was that if they were not included in such legislation from the outset, the likelihood of being added later was slim. They applied this knowledge to civil rights efforts at the state and federal levels. Gradually, more states did become inclusive, but not until 2007 did a federal proposal include trans-inclusive language. Paradoxically, the circumstances of its failure exacerbated fissures within the LGBT community but also brought most of the community together in favor of inclusion to a degree previously unimaginable.
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Henrickson, Stephanie C. "Improving Care for Transgender Veterans Through Staff Education." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7150.
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The VHA Directive 1341 (2018a): Providing Health Care for Transgender and Intersex Veterans, outlines care for transgender patients. Staff members at the project site lacked knowledge of the directive and available resources, making their care of transgender veterans inefficient. The purpose of the project was to implement staff education about the directive and resources to increase transgender patient visits and access to care. The practice-focused question asked whether the development and implementation of staff education about the national directive and transgender services would affect the number of transgender patient visits in a 2-month period. The Iowa and Community Readiness Models provided structure for the practice change. The Community Readiness Assessment tool was used to assess staff education needs regarding transgender services. The results indicated that staff have knowledge about community experts, no knowledge about federal funding, and inadequate knowledge about support from staff and leaders, qualified professionals, and laws/practices. The staff education about Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) resources tool was created and disseminated via meetings and e-mail. ICD-10 codes for gender identity disorder were evaluated for the number of transgender patient visits, which showed an increase in visits by 0.7 per month. Recommendations include continuing staff education during LGBT events and ICD-10 data reports. The implications of this study for positive social change include the potential to increase transgender patient visits to the site, which could lead to quality, comprehensive care to promote health and prevent disease.
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Sapareto, Elizabeth Alice. "Minority Stress and Mental Health among Transgender Persons." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5654.
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Transgender people, a minority population, are at increased risk for negative health and mental health consequences. Profound societal discrimination and stigmatization lead to systemic institutional barriers and lack of access to health care services. Research with lesbian, gay, and bisexual populations shows a strong association between minority stress and mental health; however, there is a gap in research for the transgender population. This study, based on theories of minority stress, positive psychology, the biopsychosocial model, and the transgender model, was conducted to clarify this relationship for the transgender population. Four research questions were proposed. A final sample of N = 29 transgender participants completed an online survey with 3 measures of minority stress (internalized transphobia, stigmatization, and prejudice events) and 5 measures of mental health (depression, suicide, anxiety, and substance abuse [drug and alcohol]). It was predicted that each minority stressor would have an independent effect upon each mental health variable, and when the effects of the stressors were combined, each would maintain an independent effect on mental health, so that their combined effect would be greater than their individual effects. Regression analyses indicated, as expected, participants with higher perceived stigma scores had higher suicidal ideation scores. Contrary to expectations, participants with higher internalized transphobia scores had lower scores on suicidal ideation. No other significant predictive relationships were found. The results of this study advocate for social change initiatives by presenting information on a poorly understood minority group for the purpose of promoting a positive effect for institutions, professionals, and transgender clients in the context of health care settings.
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Smithee, Lauren Christine. "Emotional Intimacy in Transition: Interpersonal Processes in Transgender-Cisgender Romantic Relationships." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/103909.
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Relationships in which one partner is transgender are disproportionately challenging compared to
other LGBQ+ relationships (Gamarel et al., 2014; Pulice-Farrow et al., 2017). While research
has yet to examine how transgender-cisgender couples experience emotional intimacy, it is
theorized that this process may be critical for relationship health during gender transition. This
study explored how transgender-cisgender couples experience emotional intimacy during their
transition process. Symbolic interactionism was used to examine the questions: (1) How do
perceptions of couple emotional intimacy influence how each partner assigns meaning to their
experiences with transitioning? and (2) How do partners communicate about their emotional
experiences during their transition process? Constructivist grounded theory was used to analyze
individual interviews with 20 transgender and cisgender participants (ten couples) using group-level analysis. The process model that emerged from the data indicated that transgender and cisgender partners experienced emotional tensions internally and within their relationships as
they created meaning from their experiences with transitioning. Tensions created pathways for
partners to emotionally withdraw from or engage in communication about their experiences.
Communication processes ebbed and flowed as partners created meaning for their relationship in
transition. When couples engaged in communication, they created shared meaning about their
experiences and strengthened emotional intimacy. Data revealed that these processes of building
and sustaining emotional intimacy were interactional and iterative. Recommendations for
research and clinical work with these couples are provided, in light of these findings.Doctor of Philosophy
Relationships in which one partner is transgender are particularly challenging compared to other LGBQ+ relationships (Gamarel et al., 2014; Pulice-Farrow et al., 2017). Research has yet to examine how transgender (a person whose gender identity does not align with their assigned sex at birth) and cisgender (a person whose gender identity aligns with their assigned sex at birth) intimate partners experience emotional intimacy. However, emotional intimacy may be critical for relationship health during transition (a person's process of developing a gender expression that matches their gender identity). This study explored how transgender-cisgender couples experience emotional intimacy during their transition process. I explored how each partner emotionally experienced their relationship during transition and how partners communicated about their emotional experiences during their transition process. I analyzed individual interviews with 20 transgender and cisgender participants (ten couples) (Charmaz, 2006). The findings revealed that both transgender and cisgender partners experienced emotional tensions within themselves and within their relationships as they created meaning from their experiences with transitioning. While experiencing tensions, partners chose to either engage or withdraw from communication. Communication ebbed and flowed as partners created meaning for their relationship as they transitioned. Efforts to communicate brought couples closer and strengthened emotional intimacy. Recommendations for research and clinical work with these couples are provided.
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Hamisch, Mariann. "Transgender als Identitätsherausforderung. Eine medienpädagogische Analyse des Filmes „Transamerica“." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2017. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-227187.
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Die Auseinandersetzung mit der Transgenderthematik auf politischer, gesellschaftlicher und kultureller Ebene wird immer wieder auch medial verhandelt. Um Verständnis und Akzeptanz zu fördern und Diskriminierung und Transphobie entgegenzuwirken, gilt es, das Thema auch pädagogisch aufzuarbeiten.
Die Thematik wird aus medizinischer, gesellschaftlicher und rechtlicher Perspektive dargelegt, um anschließend aufzuzeigen, inwiefern sie in der Lebenswelt von Jugendlichen und in der Schule vertreten ist. Dabei wird offensichtlich, dass hinsichtlich pädagogischer Ansätze in der Schule Nachholbedarf besteht. Um Jugendliche für die Identitätsherausforderungen von Transgendern zu sensibilisieren, eignet sich der US-amerikanische Spielfilm „Transamerica“, welcher hier insbesondere im Hinblick auf die Identitätsherausforderungen der Hauptcharaktere medienpädagogisch analysiert wird. In der abschließenden medienpädagogischen Einschätzung wird erörtert, inwiefern der Film auch im Unterricht eingesetzt werden kann.
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Saunders, Sean. "Crossing out: transgender (in)visibility in twentieth-century culture." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/244.
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Spanning the period from the early years of the Cold War to the early twenty-first century, Crossing Out argues that medical theories of gender variance which emerge in the middle of the twentieth century are bound by the Cold-War–era discursive limits within which they were articulated, and that the ideological content of those theories persists into late-century research and treatment protocols. I parallel these analyses with interrogations of literary representations of transgendered subjects. What emerges most powerfully from this analysis of literary works is their tendency to signify in excess of the medical foreclosures, even when they seem consistent with medical discourse. By reading these two discursive systems against each other, the dissertation demonstrates the ability of literary discourse to accommodate multifaceted subject positions which medical discourse is unable to articulate. Literature thus complicates the stories that medical culture tells, revealing complex and multivariate possibilities for transgendered identification absent from traditional medical accounts. In tracing these discursive intersections the dissertation draws on and extends Michel Foucault’s theory of subjugated knowledges and Judith Butler’s writings on the formation of gendered subjects.
Chapter One establishes the Cold War context, and argues that there are significant continuities between 1950s theories of intersexuality and Cold War ideology. Chapter Two extends this analysis to take in theories of transsexualism that emerged in the same years, and analyzes the discursive excesses of a 1950s pulp novel representation of a transsexual. Chapter Three establishes that the ideological content of the medical theories remained virtually unchanged by the 1990s, and argues that multivalent literary representations of transgenderism from the same decade promise the emergence of unanticipated forms of gender identity that exceed medical norms. Chapter Four is concerned with transgendered children, as they are represented in medical writing and in young adult and children’s literature. Interrogating fiction which negotiates between established medical discourse and an emergent transgender discourse, the chapter argues that these works at once invite and subvert a pathologizing understanding of gender-variant children while simultaneously providing data that demands to be read through the lens of an emergent affirmative notion of trans-childhood.