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Weir, Jodi. "Performing gender : transgenderism as critique." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ39066.pdf.
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Sivieri, Angelica <1992>. "Il transgenderism in Cina: un'analisi." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/9261.
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Questa tesi presenta una panoramica culturale, medica e legale del fenomeno transgender nel contesto cinese. Dapprima lo si analizzerà nei contesti nordamericano ed europeo in cui la parola transgender ha avuto origine, per poi trasporre quest’analisi nell’ambito della Cina continentale, dove se ne osserveranno le specificità dovute al diverso contesto culturale.
Pertanto, questa tesi si dividerà in tre capitoli: nel primo, previo un excursus sulla storia della distinzione tra sex e gender, si esaminerà il transgenderism sulla base della classificazione medica nel DSM-5, del suo rapporto con i transgender studies e della relazione di questi ultimi con altre aree di studio, come ad esempio i feminist studies. Nel secondo capitolo invece si prenderanno in considerazione le problematiche transgender in relazione al contesto sociale e alle politiche medico-legali cinesi, dopo aver tracciato un quadro simile anche per il resto della comunità LGBT. Infine, il terzo capitolo si concentrerà sulla rappresentazione culturale cinese di questo fenomeno sociale; verranno esaminati sia fenomeni appartenenti alla cultura tradizionale, come l'eunuchismo e il ruolo del dan nel jingju, sia fenomeni più contemporanei, come il successo di Jin Xing.
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Grenfell, Laura. "Disrupting law's categories, transgenderism, feminism and identity." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/MQ63079.pdf.
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King, Mark Edward. "Transprejudice in Hong Kong Chinese attitudes towards transgenderism and transgender civil rights /." Thesis, Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2008. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B39848802.
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Aramburu, Alegria Christine. "Relational maintenance and schema renegotiation following disclosure of transsexualism an examination of sustaining male-to-female transsexual and natal female couples /." abstract and full text PDF (free order & download UNR users only), 2008. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3316374.
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Lind, Isabelle, and Jennifer Öhlin. "Transgenderism and the Social Services : A qualitative study about transgender people and their experiences of the Social Services in Sweden." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Socialt arbete, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-23688.
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The aim of this study was to investigate how transgender people may experience the services that are offered by the Social Services. To fulfill the aim, the researchers decided to focus on the transgender peoples’ perspectives, and therefore chose to interview them and put them in an expert position. In this study a qualitative approach was used, and the data was gathered through two semi-structured face-to-face interviews. The main result was that the participants experienced that the Social Services sometimes might not have the right knowledge to give them proper information, sufficient support and the help they needed. Therefore, the participants often searched for information on their own, and the trust for the Social Services was unsatisfactory. One conclusion that could be drawn from this study was that the Social Services need to increase and improve their level of knowledge within this subject.
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Jackson, Matthew. "Re-presenting gender fluid identity in a contemporary arts practice." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2011. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/430.
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This dissertation addresses the paucity of representation of gender fluid identity within contemporary imagery. An examination of historical and socio-political structures inherent in modern Western society serves as a foundational position for a broader exploration of differently gendered communities globally. The case is made for contemporary art to be encouraged as a tool for the emancipation of subjugated gender fluid identities. Examples of contemporary gender fluid visual art and artists are presented to illustrate the ability of art to enable agency within the broader gender fluid community. Finally, a commentary on my own artwork is presented and discussed in relation to the research and conclusions advanced within this dissertation.
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Siverino, Bavio Paula. "Bill for a gender identity peruvian law." Derecho & Sociedad, 2017. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/117918.
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The author proposes the text for a gender identity law based on the parameters of conventionality of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and experiences of comparative law on the basis of depathologization trans identities.La autora propone el texto para una ley de identidad de género basado en los parámetros de convencionalidad de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos y las experiencias del derecho comparado sobre la base de la despatologización de las identidades trans.
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Ryan, Joelle Ruby. "Reel Gender: Examining the Politics of Trans Images in Film and Media." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1245709749.
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Lewis, Sarah Kaye. "Gendering the Body: Exploring the Construction of the Sexually Dimorphic Body." PDXScholar, 2011. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/152.
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Gender is a pervasive and regulating social institution that is operationalized in mainstream Western culture as a natural extension of the ontological difference perceived to exist between the binarily sexed bodies of male and female. Feminist theory has widely established, however, that gender is done - i.e., gender is not a naturally occurring phenomenon, but is an ongoing construction engaged and replicated by individual actors and which, while compulsory, is nevertheless optional. Within this canon is a small number of feminist theorists, notably Judith Lorber, Judith Bulter, and Nancy Tuana, who argue that the constructive manifestations of gender performativity (that is, doing of gender) are not limited to the social sphere. They argue the role of gender in the construction of the material body, asserting that doing gender has a constructive role in physical embodiment: what we do influences, and in fact creates, what our bodies are. This study engages feminist theory on the production of the body through a qualitative exploration of the lived experience of gendered bodily change, as described in the first-hand narratives of trans-identified individuals. I predict that the analysis of the narratives in the sample will show that in comparison to cisgender individuals, trans individuals possess a heightened awareness of the performative nature of gender, and that trans individuals consciously engage performativity in order to conform to the normative expectations associated with the desired gender role. I further predict that trans individuals experience sexually dimorphic bodily change to be a direct result of changes to their gender identity. The interview analysis findings provide mixed support for the first hypothesis, demonstrating that while trans individuals in the sample do demonstrate a heightened awareness of the ways in which gender is performed, the respondents’ insights came largely from their experiences in their compulsorily cisgender, pre-transition lives, rather than their current gender embodiments. The concept of performativity and its perceived implication of artificiality clashed with the respondents’ sense of their gendered actions as an expression of an authentic self, and my analysis thus addresses performativity as a necessarily polemic concept located between the subjectivity of the individual narratives and the theoretical position that gender is done. The findings provide a substantial level of support for the second hypothesis that trans individuals understand experienced bodily change to be a direct result of changes in gender identity. This study’s exploration of trans experiences of lived bodily change contributes a narrative perspective to the ongoing discussion in feminist theory which surrounds the role of gender in the production of the material body.
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Mendez, Endia T. "Transgenders in the U.S. military: policies, problems, and prospects." Thesis, Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/41418.
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.This study explores the policies, problems, and prospects related to transgenders serving in the U.S. military. Simply defined, transgender refers to persons whose gender identity, behavior, or expression does not conform to their sex assigned at birth. Yet, as the present study shows, the terminology and associated issues are complicated and defy simple definitions. The U.S. military currently prohibits transgenders from joining or serving openly, as seen in policies and medical standards identified by the study. A number of other nations do not prohibit transgenders from serving in their military. The study focuses on the practices of two such nations, Australia and Canada. Also examined is the trend toward changing medical classifications of transgender, resulting from revised perspectives by the world's most authoritative sources. Notably, these sources have shifted away from classifying gender incongruence as a disorder or placing it in a mental health category. The study concludes that medical reasons for excluding transgenders from the U.S. military are inconsistent with prevailing views. Several areas for further research are recommended.
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Sinikangas, Maarit. "Yan Daudu : A study of transgendering men in Hausaland West Africa." Thesis, Uppsala University, Cultural Anthropology, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-4542.
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Johnson, John Mark. "Beauty and power : identity, cultural transformation and transgendering in the Southern Philippines." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1995. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1317530/.
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This thesis addresses general questions about the relationship between the making of gender, the politics of national and ethnic identities, local - global articulations and the process of cultural transformation amongst Muslim Tausug and Sama communities in Sulu, the Southern Philippines. Specifically, I am concerned with the meaning, and experience, of the bantut, transvestite / transgender, homosexual men in Sulu. There is a long tradition of transvestism and transgendering in island Southeast Asia, where transvestites were considered to be sacred personages, ritual healers and/or, as in Sulu, accomplished singers and dancers who performed at various celebrations and rites of passage: embodiments of, and mediatory figures for, ancestral unity and potency. More recently, however, transvestites have emerged as the creative producers of an image of beauty defined in terms of an imagined global American otherness. This thesis is an attempt to understand and explain this phenomenon. In particular, I explore the relation between the collective endowment of the bantut as the purveyors of beauty, and their symbolic valorisation as impotent men and unreproductive/defiling women: those who are seen to have been overexposed to and transformed by a potent otherness. What is ultimately at stake, I argue, (and what is being asserted through the symbolic circumscription of the bantut) is local persons' autonomy over the process and consequences of cultural and political transformation in the face of the exclusionary violence of state enforced assimilation. However, the thesis is also concerned with the expressed transgenderal projects of the bantut themselves, a project which is variously about status and gender transformation, the elation and pleasure they experience in the production and performance of beauty, and the attempt to overcome the prejudice of the local populace, whilst establishing relationships that are based on mutuality and shared respect. What this thesis demonstrates is that there is nothing ambiguous about ambiguity, sexual or otherwise. Rather, it is the specific product or effect of different historical relations of power and resistance through which various cultural subjects are created and re-create themselves.
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Phillips, Anna. "Sexual behaviour of men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgenders in Southern India." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/5525.
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Background The HIV epidemic in India remains predominantly concentrated in groups where individuals display high risk behaviours, including men who have sex with men (MSM). Widespread behavioural changes are crucial to the control of HIV, but need to be informed by an understanding of the risk factors for infection. However, reliability and validity of self-reported behaviour are difficult to determine. This thesis aims to contribute to the literature comparing innovative data collection modes for self-reported HIV risk behaviour in developing countries. Methods The Avahan programme is a large-scale HIV-prevention project that focuses on the six states in India with the highest HIV prevalence. The programme focuses on core and bridging groups, including MSM. This thesis presents the findings of one aspect of the monitoring and evaluation: behavioural data collected using face-to-face interviews (FTFI) and informal confidential voting interviews (ICVI) among MSM sampled in public place and Hammam cruising sites in Bangalore. Results A review of empirical data collected in developing countries comparing FTFI with new interviewing tools, found private data collection methods to have mixed success in reducing underreporting of risky behaviour. A comparison of ICVI and FTFI in India found that ICVI significantly increased reporting of stigmatised behaviours, but results did not adhere consistently to expectation. A number of self-identified categories of MSM are commonly applied in the intervention context in India, each of which was generally associated with different HIV-risk behaviours. Although there was evidence of role segregation and identity-specific behaviour, the categories were found to be more fluid than has previously been documented. Bisexual behaviour was common, and condom use with female partners was low, which suggests a potential bridge of HIV transmission into the general population. Conclusions The dataset provided a solid description of HIV risk behaviours among MSM cruising in public places in Bangalore, which has immediate implications for designing appropriate targeted HIV prevention programmes that address fluidity in risk behaviour between MSM identities and reach out to behaviourally bisexual men, rather than treating MSM as a homogenous group. Both the systematic review and the comparison of ICVI and FTFI highlighted difficulties in gathering ‘truthful’ self-reported behaviour, as determining the precise reasoning where individual responses departed from the presumed norm was impossible. Qualitative research might contribute to a better understanding of the motivations behind reporting biases amongst MSM.
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Lopes, Tatiana de Castro. "Mentira sexual em M. Butterfly de David Henry Hwang." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2007. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=465.
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O objetivo desta dissertação é questionar a legitimidade de convicções sexuais e de gênero profundamente arraigadas, através da análise de M. Butterfly de David Henry Hwang e Cat on a Hot Tin Roof de Tennessee Williams. Argüindo a respeito do determinismo biológico imposto e do sistema binário restritivo, eu tento testar o valor e o significado de antigos dualismos construídos, tais como mentira e verdade, masculino e feminino. Nesta tarefa, sou auxiliada pela existência de personagens enriquecedores como Brick Pollitt, Maggie, René Gallimard e Song Liling, cujas subjetividades são centrais para minha dissertação. Enquanto os dois primeiros são cruciais para a discussão sobre a mentira, os outros são fundamentais para exemplificar as possibilidades de sexualidades e expressões de gênero transgressorasThe purpose of this thesis is to question the legitimacy of deeply rooted sexual and gender beliefs through the analysis of both David Hwangs M. Butterfly and Tennessee Williamss Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Being inquisitive regarding the imposed biological determinism and the restrictive binary system, I try to test the value and the meaning of ancient constructed dualisms such as mendacity and truth, masculine and feminine. In this ask, I am supported by the existence of enriching characters like Brick Pollitt, Maggie, Rene Gallimard and Song Liling, whose subjectivities are the core of my thesis. While the two first are crucial for the discussion on mendacity, the others are fundamental to exemplify possibilities of transgressive sexualities and gender expressions.
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Fontenla, Janine de Oliveira. "Transgenders ou transexuais ? identidades, sexualidades e gêneros em "The Well of loneliness" e "Stone Butch Blues"." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2009. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=1217.
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Este trabalho tem como propósito analisar as questões de identidade, gênero e sexualidade nos romances The Well of Loneliness, de Radclyffe Hall, e Stone Butch Blues, de Leslie Feinberg. O foco desta análise recai sobre as personagens principais dos romances, Stephen Gordon e Jess Goldberg, que vivem múltiplos conflitos por conta de sua expressão e identidade de gênero não estarem em consonância com seu sexo biológico. A dissertação fundamenta-se nos conceitos teórico-metodológicos da teoria do corpo, na conceituação pós-moderna de identidade e nos conceitos de gênero e sexualidade, assim como seus desdobramentos. Dentre os conceitos considerados relevantes desenvolvidos para essa análise estão os transgenders e transexuais, uma vez que as protagonistas apresentam características congruentes com ambas as categorias. Considerando-se o desenvolvimento das personagens Jess e Stephen, pode-se perceber o caráter múltiplo e processual da identidade pós-moderna, tendo toda a gama de aspectos relacionados a gênero e sexualidade como elementos (trans)formadoresThe aim of this work is to analyze the issues of identity, gender and sexuality in Radclyffe Halls The Well of Loneliness and in Leslie Feinbergs Stone Butch Blues. The focus of this analysis lies in the main characters of the two novels, Stephen Gordon and Jess Goldberg, who live multiple conflicts since their gender identity and gender expression are not in consonance with their biological sex. The theoretical-methodological fundaments of this thesis are based on the concepts of the theory of the body, on the postmodern conceptualization of identity and the concepts of gender and sexuality, as well as their unfolding. Among the relevant concepts developed for this analysis are the transgenders and transsexuals, once the protagonists display features which are congruent with both categories. Concerning the development of the characters Jess and Stephen, one can notice the multiple and processual nature of the post modern identity, which has a whole range of aspects related to gender and sexuality as (trans)forming elements
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Sevilla, Gabriela Garcia. "A experimentação de Laerte : reflexões a partir das pedagogias de gênero e sexualidade." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/106494.
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Reflexões provocativas já foram produzidas na intersecção dos estudos de gênero e sexualidade (na perspectiva pós-estruturalista) com o campo da educação e estudos culturais, que ajudam a mostrar o caráter aprendido dos modos de ser homem e mulher em nossa sociedade. Utilizamos nesta pesquisa a categoria pedagogias de gênero e sexualidade, proposta por Guacira Louro, para analisarmos de que forma diferentes artefatos culturais ensinam e reiteram determinadas normas referentes ao feminino e masculino e como estes mesmos artefatos possibilitam mudanças e possibilidades de subversão das normas. Propomos a análise de entrevistas concedida por Laerte, cartunista que tem ganhado notoriedade e visibilidade midiática por suas experimentações éticas, estéticas e políticas em relação a gênero e sexualidade, discutindo que questionamentos das normas se abrem ou se reproduzem a partir disto por meio da problematização e multiplicação destes conceitos e fragmentação das dicotomias. Tomamos este “caso” como um artefato cultural – Laerte na mídia – e, portanto, como um local privilegiado para lançarmos um olhar a respeito da sociedade brasileira em relação às questões que envolvem gênero, sexualidade e corpo na medida em que isso gera repercussão e muito interesse por parte da imprensa. Também porque se debruça sobre um modo de vida considerado “estranho”, inusitado ou “anormal”. Sendo assim, acreditamos que ao lançarmos nosso olhar para as margens, muito compreendemos sobre o centro e também a respeito da constituição destas fronteiras e dos seus possíveis atravessamentos, ou seja, das possibilidades de transgressão e subversão das normas que constituem o sistema heteronormativo vigente.Provocative reflections have already been produced in the intersection of gender and sexuality studies (according to post-structuralism perspective) with the education and cultural studies field, which help show the learned character of the ways to be a man and a woman in our society. Gender pedagogies purposed by Guacira Louro were used in this research in order to analyze how different cultural artifacts teach and reiterate particular norms referred to the feminine and the masculine and also how these very artifacts make possible changes and possibilities of norms subversion. Interview analyzes conceived by Laerte, cartoonist who has been gaining media notoriety and visibility due to his ethical, esthetical and political experiences related to gender and sexuality, are purposed, discussing which norm questionings open or reproduce themselves from it through problematisation and multiplication of such concepts as well as the dichotomies fragmentations. This “case” is assumed to be a cultural artifact – Laerte on media – and, therefore, as a privileged place to launch a look about the Brazilian society related to the issues which involve gender, sexuality and body in the media in such extension which generates repercussion and a great interest from the press. It is also because it focuses on a way of life considered “strange”, unusual or even “abnormal”. Thus, it is believed that, once launching our look to the margins, much will be understood about the center and also about the constitution of these boarders and its possible crossings, that is to say, of the transgression and subversion possibilities of the norms which constitute the heteronormative active system.
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McLachlan, Christine. "Queering gender : an exploration of the subjective experience of the development of transgender identity." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/2887.
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Gender identity disorder is a disorder that challenges the predominant cultural understanding of gender and sex. A transgender person believes that s/he is of the opposite sex and gender than her/his natal sex. This study aimed to explore and describe transgender people’s experience of the development of their transgender identity, and the critical turning points that they experienced during the development of this transgender identity. Furthermore, the study explored the influence of religion and spirituality on the development of the transgender person’s identity and how their transgender identity in turn influenced their spirituality and spiritual identity. Feminist and queer theories were utilized in this study. A phenomenological approach was used to explore the lived experience of five transgender individuals. The findings suggest that these five transgender people find themselves between the sex categories of male and female and the gender categories of the feminine and the masculine. This finding challenges the Western dichotomous view of gender and sex. It further emerged that religion/spirituality does influence the development of a transgender identity as well as the process of gender reassignment.
Key terms: Transgender, gender identity disorder, sex change, transsexual, G/god/dess, self-identity, phenomenology, queer identity, gender queer,
queer theology, binary discourse, fluid gender, trans man, trans woman.Thesis (M.Soc.Sc.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2010.
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Young, Tatiana Kalaniopua. "Transsituated publics : from Christine Jorgensen to Holly Woodlawn." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-05-3412.
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The single most recognized transgender woman in the 1950s and throughout much of the 1960s, Christine Jorgensen symbolized in many ways the quintessential white, upper-middle-class woman and the medicalized standard by which other transgender women were measured, including poor transgender women and transgender women of color. In the late 1960s and 1970s, however, a new class of transgender women would come to denounce such an image. Holly Woodlawn, a cult icon in the late 1960s and early 1970s, for example, viewed Christine as outdated and out-of-sync with her own gendered desires for expression. Holly gained notoriety for her outrageous role in Andy Warhol's film Trash (1970). In the film, she plays the glamorous and co-dependent role of the counter-culture sex addicted welfare queen. In the film, she denounces traditional transsexual women narratives and engenders instead new forms of gendered expressions unencumbered by sex change anxieties. Christine and Holly are but two historical transgender icons, who, in the 1950s, 60s and 70s suggested new possibilities for gendered expressions. Their public personas historicize the construction of transgender identity, making visible the classed and racialized privileging of sex change surgery and the alternative expressions embodied by poor transgender women and transgender women of color. Although unable to afford sex change surgery, poor transgender women, in particular, transgender women of color, embodied new models of gender identity beyond the gendered constructs of whiteness.text
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Burdge, Barb J. "A Phenomenology of Transgenderism as a Valued Life Experience Among Transgender Adults in the Midwestern United States." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/4026.
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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)This study is a hermeneutic phenomenology of transgenderism as it is valued and appreciated by adults who self-identify along the transgender spectrum. As a population-at-risk due to a social environment reliant on a dualistic notion of gender, transgender people are of particular concern to social workers, who are charged with identifying and building on client strengths. Yet the preponderance of the academic literature has reinforced a negative, problematic, or even pathological view of transgenderism. The literature also has tended to focus narrowly on transsexualism, leaving a gap in our knowledge of other forms of transgenderism. The present study—grounded primarily in the philosophy and methodology of Heideggerian phenomenology, but also drawing on Gadamerian hermeneutics—sought to understand the lived experience of transgenderism as it is appreciated by a range of transgender adults. A purposive sample of fifteen self-identified transgender adults who reported appreciating being transgender was recruited using snowball sampling across three Midwestern states. Each participated in an individual, open-ended interview designed to tap their lived experience with transgenderism as a valued aspect of life. Transcribed interview data were analyzed using Heideggerian hermeneutic phenomenological processes as suggested by various researchers in nursing, social work, and other disciplines. The results of this study suggest that intimate connections (with one’s self, with others, and with a larger purpose) constitute the essence of the lived experience of appreciating one’s transgenderism. These findings help prepare social workers to recognize the strengths of the transgender population and to engage in culturally competent practice. In addition, this research offers new knowledge for improving social work curricular content on transgenderism and for justifying trans-inclusive social policies. The study also contributes to the overall research literature on transgenderism and qualitative methods.
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Stevenson, Marla. "Queering the picture : reading Quirizio da Murano's altarpiece of the Saviour." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/2306.
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The wound that Jesus received from a spear during the Crucifixion appears in a new way in Northern Italian art of the late trecento. My research tracks some key changes to this symbol's meaning during its migration through different religious and gender contexts, in communities of Franciscan and Dominican friars and nuns between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries. I focus especially on a Venetian altarpiece showing Jesus offering his wound to a Poor Clare. My analysis of this altarpiece examines ideas of religious, social and gendered identity in relation to the iconography of Jesus' wound.
Scholars in early-modern gender studies point to existing tensions between visibility and invisibility, possibility and impossibility, which arise in relation to the signifying power of the female body in a male-oriented heterosexist system. As such, the scholarly literature often avoids addressing female homoerotic desire and the possibility of same-sex sexual expression in these kinds of religious images. My work indicates that the emotional and bodily expression of religious women was visible, as are representations of female homoerotic desire, if we can look beyond a binary system of gender and heterosexism.
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Hines, Dana Darnell. "Social patterns and pathways of HIV care among HIV-positive transgender women." 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/7386.
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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)Transgender women have the highest HIV prevalence rates of all gender and sexual minorities, yet are less likely to enter and be retained in HIV care. As a result, they are at high risk for HIV-related morbidity and mortality. This study aimed to describe the illness career of transgender women living with HIV and to describe how interactions with health care providers and important others influenced their illness trajectory. The findings are a theoretical model that includes four stages: Having the world come crashing down, shutting out the world, living in a dark world, and reconstructing the world. Relationships within the social network (family, friends, and romantic partners) and the network of health care providers provided the context of the women's illness careers. Pivotal moments marked movement from one phase to the next. Having the World Crashing Down was the first stage that occurred when the participants were diagnosed with HIV. They felt that their lives as they knew them had been destroyed. They indicated that the "whole world just shattered" the moment they found out they had HIV. Shutting Out the World occurred next. During this stage, many participants experienced withdrawal, denial, social isolation and loneliness. As they struggled with their diagnosis, they often avoided HIV care and avoided contact with important others. During the third stage, Living in a Dark World, participants descended into a dark phase of self-destructive life and health-threatening behaviors following their diagnosis. During the fourth stage, Reconstructing the World, participants began to reestablish themselves in the world and found new ways to reengage with important others and resume meaningful life activities. Findings confirm that the illness careers of HIV-positive transgender women are influenced by the social context of the health care setting and interactions with health care providers and important others.
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Lu, Hsin Hua, and 呂欣樺. "The Family Right of Transgenders." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/36312146032521116898.
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Transgender is the state of one's gender identity or gender expression not matching one's assigned sex while one's sexual physiology structure is normal, and which we call “Gender Dysphoria” or“Gender Incongruence” in medicine. Advancements in medical technology have allowed people to master their own sex, thus Countries around the world have stipulated legislation to protect transgender people's rights. Although there is no law for transgender people in Taiwan now, the government still tries to regulate transgender people's rights by the Executive Order or explain the law. In this article, I will focus on the transgender people's right to family. Hoping to discuss the family law issues that after transgender people complete the sex reassignment surgery, such as marriage, adoption of children, and even they may need the help of artificial reproductive technology to have the next generation in the future. We will see whether the provisions are appropriate through reviewing the law in operation, and try to outline the Constitution and the law which can protect transgender people effectively.
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Coelho, Filipa Pinto. "Surgical Approach of Female-to-Male Transgenders." Master's thesis, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/119946.
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Coelho, Filipa Pinto. "Surgical Approach of Female-to-Male Transgenders." Dissertação, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/119946.
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Lin, Chia-Yuan, and 林佳緣. "A Study of Media Representation of Transgenders and Their Interpretation." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/38073496658764012050.
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The main purpose of this study is to discuss how Taiwanese newspapers report and represent transgender people, and how transgender people read and interpret this news. Firstly, I collected three Taiwanese newspapers from 1994 to 2004, and used critical discourse analysis as suggested by Norman Fairclough in order to expose how the discourse of the news (media reality) shapes people’s experiences and images (social reality). I also addressed the ideology behind the text to analyse critically the syntax of the discourse. Through the in-depth interviewing of transgender people I explored the differences between the discourse of the news and the realities revealed by the interviewees. The study found that sex is constructed according to the discourse of medicine, and that this causes the classification of sex to become a kind of power mechanism. In many cases news cites the rules of sex as a starting point from which to examine the sexual/gender practices of transgender people and attempts in this way to emphasize the social norms of sex/gender. According to the interviewees, the language used by the media ignores the problem of gender stereotypes in society and instead concentrates on those transgender people who rebel or question and reports their stories of sexuality and transgender in the news. The transgender interviewees also did not care about medical research and whatever medical research reported they were unlikely to change their views and chosen gender identity. Finally, these interviewees appear to redefine in their own minds the meaning of sex and gender, they alter their point of view and think of other options and ways in which to express themselves such as rethinking their sex/gender and body image, choosing not to have cosmetic surgery, or to identify her gender as androgynous. In real life, however, the gender practice and performance of transsexuals is limited by the discourse of heterosexuality and this means we fail to respect the rights of transgendered people and deny the very existence of people with a plural gender. As a result of this the media continues to be hostile towards transsexuals and to portray a negative discriminatory picture of them which is highly damaging and restrictive in the outside world. The discourse and cultural significance attached to the perception of gender are based firmly on the physical sex of an individual. Through this definition the meaning of sex and gender maintain a sense of legality and validity and hold patriarchy together.
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Huang, Yan-Lin, and 黃硯琳. "Crossing the Wall of Gender: Life Stories of the Transgenders." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/rsapb6.
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碩士國立臺灣大學
新聞研究所
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With the global wave of legalization of same-sex marriage, the stories of homosexuality are no longer strange to Taiwan society, yet the voice of transgender has not yet been heard. In the past, social awareness of transgender only stayed in such terms as "transsexuals," "transsexual surgery," and "shemale". People did not really understand the life story, family, relationships and living predicament of this minority group. With the development of information technology and more discussions with the gender theory, transgenders in Taiwan have been greatly different from 10 years ago. A new generation is beginning to think about the meaning of transition instead of simply copying and following traditional gender stereotypes. This in-depth article records the change of transgender in Taiwan in the 21st century. Based on interviewing more than 30 people from transgender community, this reporting makes efforts to narrate their life stories from a closer perspective. The stories start with gender explorations which describes experiences of gender anxiety at a young age, perceptions of one''s own body, and ways of their gender identity. Then, this reporting introduces the diverse transition tools and its meanings for transgenders. This in-depth article also cares about transgenders’ relationships and their family, as well as their workplace experiences. Through all aspects, this reporting tries to fully present the life stories of transgenders in Taiwan.
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Costa, Belinda Celeste Marques da. "Sexo comercial e transgenderismo: um estudo exploratório com trabalhadores do sexo travestis e transexuais." Master's thesis, 2014. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/78695.
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Costa, Belinda Celeste Marques da. "Sexo comercial e transgenderismo: um estudo exploratório com trabalhadores do sexo travestis e transexuais." Dissertação, 2014. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/78695.
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Wu, Peijung, and 吳佩蓉. "The Discipline and Punishment of Gender Order:On the Social Dilemma of Transgenders." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/49203482049853246697.
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碩士國立暨南國際大學
公共行政與政策學系
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In a heterosexual-dominated society, the transgender is always the hidden and forbidden issue. The image of transgender remains anomaly and periphery, even reported in media or newspaper. This study begins with the first discrimination law case of transgender, trying to explore the oppression of the societal discipline and the patriarchy system which concern the transgender in office, family, public sphere, private sphere, and every aspect in everyday life. The transgender is the anomie in the patriarchal criterion of “the coincidence between sexuality and gender”, then become the order breaker in the patriarchy society. The first part of this research which is consisted of four parts will focus that how the transgender study and explore their own body images. While the transgender is making the body the gender-expressing tool, they have to deal with the omnipresent Foucaultian discipline. We investigate the response of transgender to the office issue in the second part and the toilet-problem, especially what the male-to-female transgender has to deal with——the androphobia—–in the third part. In the rest of the third part, we discuss what do the transgender have to deal in hospital system, family or any kind place filled with the discipline. The discipline and punishment, and the breaking of family and parenthood have hence become the hardest issue for transgender. In the last part of this research, we inspect the powerful discipline of patriarchy and the predicament of transgender when they’re facing the problem of gender-internalization. According to our research, the diversity of gender could not simply deal with the societal convention. The display of gender must be in accordance with the societal convention. Besides, even the transgender themselves could feel the predicament in the same way as their fellows, their way to face it would be personalized as much as possible. They always ask themselves to be on their own, handling the issue with high EQ and flexible ways. Moreover, the discipline of patriarchy is going to be internalized in transgender. Some of them couldn’t just pass the cleavage between sexuality and gender. They hope to be treated like the heterosexual, and own the right of be private. Although the transgender are willing to shake the dual-sexuality system with the body and the appearance in public; in private, they would like to be more “disciplined” to be subjected to the society in order to be not attacked. This research hopes to point out that the gender discipline confines not only the behavior and the body display, but also the living conditions when the patriarchal society is an alliance with capitalism society. The cleavage between sexuality and gender makes transgender become both gender vulnerable group and economical vulnerable group in office, marriage, and family system in a patriarchal society. Transgender are normally those whose gender inclination couldn’t be included in a heterosexuality society. However, there are indeed serious class conflicts within transgender world. Those transgender in wealthy, powerful, and high social-economical position would face fewer problems than those who are in worse positions. The dual coercion makes the relative vulnerable transgender more vulnerable and own less opportunity to improve their living conditions.
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Ikeda-Vogel, Linda L. "Re-visioning family : A photovoice project with transgenders and their families in Hawai'i." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20890.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2008.This project begins to address this inattention through inquiry of transgenders with regard to family, at the same time contextualizing some of the larger issues facing this population. This is accomplished theoretically through integration of constructs from critical consciousness, structuration theory, feminist standpoint theories, and culturally anchored intervention research. Methodologically, this is achieved through the use of photovoice----a participatory research strategy involving the provision of cameras, not to professionals or specialists, but to members of the community being studied.
This project is an exploration of local transgenders and their relationships to family. This seemed necessary given the misunderstanding, fear, and negative reaction towards transgenders, despite the continued evolution of professional and public views. This situation has resulted in attention to matters of illness and disease----e.g., Gender Identity Disorder and HIV/AIDS----to the exclusion of those of wellness or wellbeing; inadequate and ghettoized services for transgenders and other sexual minorities; and misunderstanding about and neglect of the role and significance of family.
This project, then, relied on photographs, taken by 16 participants. All resided in Honolulu, self-identified as transgender, and were Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander mixed. Their photographs served as springboards for narratives, which were collected during a series of four focus groups. Narratives were transcribed verbatim and coded both theoretically and by way of an emic approach (in vivo). Results revealed biological; adopted or hanai; chosen, drag, or work-related; and blended family forms. Data were conceptualized as belonging to one of two main domains----kinship or collectivity, and melancholia (trauma, grief, and hardship, especially as these related to status loss). Melancholia was further understood as communal, serving to bring people together and provide a common understanding and shared mission (e.g., the sparing of the younger generation)----an understanding that linked the two main domains. An argument was made that attention to transgenders and their families is highly relevant to social work and to the discipline's promotion of social justice, and that social workers would do well to allow for, if not appreciate, transgender expression----on the level of the individual as well as family.
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CHEN, YU-TZU, and 陳于慈. "The Gender Identity and Marriage Issues of the Transgenders in the Aspect of Law." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ay9x42.
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碩士國立雲林科技大學
科技法律研究所
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In the modern society, “gender” is no longer viewed in duality terms. It’s no longer “black or white”, but like a spectrum. Some people’s gender identity is not consistent with their biological sex. In other words, for example, it is like a female soul inside a male body. Medical terms “gender dysphoria” and “gender noncomformity” are used to describe this kind of conditions. However, with the advancement of medical technology, these misplaced souls now have a chance for sex change, giving people the right to decide their own gender. Around the world, there are special regulations for sex reassignment surgery （SRS）. For example, the American Psychiatric Association established the basic conditions for SRS in the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders （DSM）”. In China, there is “Sex Change Operation Technical Management Standard （trial）” to provide improtatn conditions for SRS. In the aspect of gender recognition, there are also different regulations in various countries. For example, in Japan, there is “性同一性障害者の性別の取扱いの特例に関する法律”; in the UK, there is Gender Recognition Act 2004; and in Germany, there is “Gesetzüber die Änderung der Vornamen und die Feststellung der Geschlechtszugehörigkeit in besonderenFällen”, ensuring transgender people’s rights in relation to gender identify and sex change. However, in Japan and Germany, SRS is required for change of gender, while in the UK, one can change his/her gender without SRS. It is obvious that protecting the rights of transgender people has become a main issue around the world. Yet, Taiwan hasn’t been affected by this international trend of legislation. Currently, the laws in Taiwan provide no protection for transgender people, much less protection of marriage freedom, which transgender people care a lot about. With the focus on gender recognition and marriage freedom of transgender people, this study reviewed domestic and foreign articles in relation to transgender people and summarized and analyzed the data and information retrieved. In the aspect of gender recognition, this study suggested that in the future the legislators in Taiwan should specify the required conditions for sex change, gender recognition, and SRS to ensure transgender people’s right of SRS and gender freedom. In the aspect of marriage freedom, according to J. Y. Interpretation #362 and J. Y. Interpretation #748, the right to marry is everyone’s, not just heterosexual people’s. This study suggested that, besides the original marriage system, the government should refer to the “Pacte Civil de Solidarité in France” to establish a partnership system without any gender limitation, to protect people’s right to marry with different obligations and legal protections. Key words：transgender, gender identity, SRS, gender registration, marriage freedom.
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Wu, Tsai-Mo, and 吳采模. "Transgenders’ Right to Gender Determination:Also on the Limit of Nation''s Regulation on Legal Gender." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/e4q5wp.
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Ramphele, Lesego Phenyo Will. "“Doing” gender in South Africa : footprints of tension for transgender persons." Diss., 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/21510.
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Text in EnglishThe ‘doing’ of gender in our society is constructed along the lines of power, knowledge and being. Power structures angle knowledge and understanding of transgender people and transgender lives in a way that relegates them almost to the museum to be observed as a spectacle or exotic objects. The emphatic frames of man and woman, even in South Africa where the Constitution is considered and understood to be liberal and generous, the life of a transgender body is an Other life. One is either male or female; any other form of doing and being gender suffers peripherisation and classification as special, different, strange or any other exteriorising definitions. This dissertation attempts to question the power or the tyranny of categorisations and classifications of man and woman, drawing from various discourses such as the medico-legal discourse classification. It further looks at how gender is being performed by transgender people. Further it aimed at gaining an in-depth understanding of the experiences and challenges of transgender people with regards to doing gender within a gendered society. The findings within the dissertation tells us, that the performativity of gender is not a neutral space, but enacted by various power structures and those who live outside the norms such as the transgender people, they are subjected to precariousness. It this dissertation seeks to contribute to an unmasking of some easy but harmful assumptions about gender and sexuality. Gender and sexuality may not be taken for granted and assumed according to fixed templates but they are fluid, mobile and flexible beyond the limits of convention.
Psychology
M.A. (Psychology (Research Consultation))
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Scandurra, Cristiano. "Minority stress e transgenderismi. Effetti dello stigma vissuto ed interiorizzato e dei fattori protettivi sulla salute mentale di un campione di persone transgender italiane." Tesi di dottorato, 2015. http://www.fedoa.unina.it/10197/1/Scandurra_Cristiano_27.pdf.
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Le persone transgender vivono violenze ed oppressioni continue e sistematiche a causa della propria non conformità di genere rappresentando una popolazione altamente stigmatizzata e a rischio di esperire problematiche di salute mentale. Un modello teorico di grande utilità per comprendere le cause di queste problematiche e gli effetti dello stigma sociale è quello del minority stress (Meyer, 1995; 2003; 2007). Nonostante ciò, fino a pochissimi anni fa, le persone transgender sono state inspiegabilmente lasciate fuori dalle ricerche che si sono occupate di studiare gli effetti di questo particolare stress sulla salute mentale. È solo di recente che si è cominciato ad applicare questo modello alle differenti identità transgender (Bockting et al., 2013; Hendricks & Testa, 2012). In Italia, contrariamente agli USA, studi applicativi di questo modello indirizzati alla popolazione transgender sono ancora molto scarsi.
Il presente lavoro di ricerca, di natura quantitativa, si è proposto di applicare il modello del minority stress ad un campione di persone transgender italiane (N = 149), analizzando gli effetti dello stigma vissuto ed interiorizzato e dei fattori protettivi sulla salute mentale.
I risultati sostengono la validità teorica e clinica dell'utilizzo di questa prospettiva per meglio comprendere gli effetti diretti ed indiretti della violenza sulla salute mentale delle persone transgender. Uno sguardo particolare è stato indirizzato al ruolo della transfobia interiorizzata, lo stressor più soggettivo ed insidioso la cui presenza aumenta di gran lunga la possibilità di sviluppare problematiche di salute mentale. I risultati ottenuti nel presente lavoro di ricerca sono stati, infine, analizzati nel loro risvolto psicologico-clinico, discutendone le implicazioni legate agli interventi di counselling e/o di psicoterapia rivolti alle persone transgender.
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Mahura, L. C. "A managerial investigation into Lesbian, Gays, Bisexual and transgenders needs in the North West Province, Ngaka Modiri Molema / L.C Mahura." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/14444.
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In South Africa, HIV and AIDS as a communicable diseases is difficult to
eradicate. The government sector is advocating for comprehensive
management thereof. Still the challenge is that the health sector tend to focus
on the treatment pillar, pumping a lot of resources into treatment with minimal
productivity. The point is, too much emphasis is put on post-intervention as
opposed to pro-activity. Prevention is one of the under resourced pillars in terms
of funding and capacity, but can bring about positive behavioural change in safe
sex and deter other risk behavioural patterns that transmits HIV within our
communities, thus combating further HIV infections. It is important to continually
find gaps in the prevention techniques and markets when promoting or
communicating HIV risks prevention. The study explores if the mainstream
promotional and communication messages are reaching the Lesbians, Gays,
Bisexual and Transgenders (LGBTs) and are soliciting positive behavioural
change or discrimination. The study is qualitative and explores a probable social
problem concerning the LGBTs in their natural setting. Probability, snowball
sampling was used. Data were collected through structured questionnaires, and
loaded into the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS), a software
for analysis. The measure of correlation used was the Spearman's Rho.Thesis (MBA) North-West University, Mafikeng Campus, 2012
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Miller, Kirsten Lee. "I came out of the shadows: South African transgender wellbeing and liminality." Diss., 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/26617.
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Abstract in English and ZuluThis qualitative study set out to discover the lived experiences of South African transgender individuals within the liminal space of having been confirmed for gender affirming surgery, yet who have not completed their surgery. The aim included seeking out how participants’ wellbeing was affected by being within this liminal space. Six participants were recruited in Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town. Thematic analysis was used to derive themes from the transcripts. Themes included coming out; relationships; wellbeing; misgendering/misnaming; support; public and private medical care; and liminality. Recommendations for future studies are included, and recommendations on interventions and support are discussed.
Lolu cwaningo lohlobo lwekhethelo lenzelwe ukuthola noma ukubheka izinselelo zabantu abafuna ukushintsha ubulili babo baseNingizimu Afrika ababhekana nazo uma basohlelweni lokuyohlinzwa ngoDokotela ukuze bakhone ukushintsha ubulili babo. Inhloso yalolu cwaningo ukubheka ngqo kubantu abayihambile lena ndima ukuthi bahlukumezeka kanjani ngesikhathi basohlelweni lokuthi bashintshe ubulili babo. Abantu abayisithupha abazibandakanye nalolu cwaningo batholakale eGoli, ePitoli kanye naseKapa. Kusetshenziswe ucwaningo olubheka indikimba ukuze kutholwe izihloko ezivele embalweni osuselwe enkulumeni eqoshiweyo. Izihloko ezivelayo yilezi, ubudlelwano; impilo; ukubizwa ngobulili ongasibona/ukubizwa ngegama okungasilona elakho; ukwesekwa; usizo lwezibhedlela zikahulumeni nezibhedlela ezizimele; kanye nokuba sesimeni sokushintsha ubulili. Izincomo zocwaningo oluzayo zifakiwe nazo, kuphindwe kwakhulunywa noma kwabhekwa ukuthi kungangenelelwa kanjani ngosizo.
Psychology
M.A. (Clinical Psychology)