Do Some Men Who Desire Sex Reassignment Have A Mental Disorder? Comment on Meyer-Bahlburg (2010)

“…I am not likening transness and disability to imply that transgender is a mental disorder or that transgender identity can be used as a metaphor to understand mental illnesses such as body dysmorphia or body integrity identity disorder (Ostgathe, Schnell, and Kasten 2014). Transgender identity and gender dysphoria have often been labeled as mental disorders (Lawrence 2011;Meyer-Bahlburg 2010) further adding to this framing of the transgender child as a "problem." Rather, I am using disability studies to understand the ways in which non-normative bodies are pathologized and mourned in relation to imagined cisnormative and able-bodied futures.…”

Section: Trans Disruptionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Grieving the transgender (assumed-cisgender) child: gendered mourning, the harms of cisnormativity, and the possibilities of creating livable trans futures

Miseo¹

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This dissertation unpacks how feelings of loss and grief commonly experienced by parents of transgender and non-binary youth, which I call gendered mourning, give insight into the inner-workings of family gender systems. Diverging from the oversimplification that grieving a transgender child is transphobic, this research examines from where gendered mourning derives and illuminates the ways in which cisnormativity frames ideas of familial past, present, and future--setting parents up for feelings of loss. Observation at a support group for parents of transgender youth and in-depth interviews with attendees of the support group reveal that gendered mourning primarily involves feelings about a child's changing name and body, the trans child existing in a hostile world, and fears of losing a child through suicide. Additionally, this research explores how gendered mourning informs efforts to produce more livable social worlds for transgender youth. Through this, parents learn about gender diversity and simultaneously interrogate how hetero/cisnormativity impact their own lives, identities, and selfexpressions. This research positions cisnormativity, acting as a collective harm to us all, as the producer of loss instead of the transgender child.

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DSM-5: Call for Commentaries on Gender Dysphoria, Sexual Dysfunctions, and Paraphilic Disorders

Zucker

2013

Arch Sex Behav

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Do Some Men Who Desire Sex Reassignment Have A Mental Disorder? Comment on Meyer-Bahlburg (2010)

Cited by 4 publications

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Do Some Men Who Desire Sex Reassignment Have A Mental Disorder? Response to Lawrence (2011)

Do Some Men Who Desire Sex Reassignment Have A Mental Disorder? Response to Lawrence (2011)

Grieving the transgender (assumed-cisgender) child: gendered mourning, the harms of cisnormativity, and the possibilities of creating livable trans futures

DSM-5: Call for Commentaries on Gender Dysphoria, Sexual Dysfunctions, and Paraphilic Disorders

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