Gender euphoria: a grounded theory exploration of experiencing gender affirmation

Austin, Ashley; Papciak, Ryan; Lovins, Lindsay

doi:10.1080/19419899.2022.2049632

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“…This term is used to describe the positive psychological state experienced when one’s gender expression aligns with their gender identity. Described by communities as the comfort, confidence, certainty, satisfaction and joy in response to affirmation (personal and/or by others) of one’s body or one’s gender 29…”

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Gender identity and sexual orientation: a glossary

Ervin

Scovelle

Churchill

et al. 2023

J Epidemiol Community Health

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Gender and sexually diverse populations remain understudied and under-represented in research. This is attributable not only to significant and ongoing data collection limitations, where large population-based studies fail to ask adequate questions around gender and sexuality, but also due to continuously evolving terminology in this space. This glossary takes a preliminary step in rectifying these issues by defining and clarifying the application and understanding of key terms related to gender, gender identity, expression and sexuality. In doing so, this glossary provides a point of reference for understanding key differences in gender and sexually diverse terminology to (1) help guide researchers and practitioners in the use and understanding of terms and (2) facilitate the utility of more respectful, inclusive and consistent language application across the public health arena.

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Section: Glossarymentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender identity and sexual orientation: a glossary

Ervin

Scovelle

Churchill

et al. 2023

J Epidemiol Community Health

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“…Recently, concepts such as ‘gender euphoria’ and ‘gender pleasure’, as opposed to the predominant narrative of gender dysphoria, have received interest also in clinical research on trans health (Austin et al, 2022; Fielding, 2021; Jacobsen and Devor, 2022). What then might we learn about gender and sexuality as discourses of power by examining trans persons not as passive objects of medical knowledge but as actively desiring agents?…”

Section: The Truth About Sex: Trans Desire As De-eroticized or Hypers...mentioning

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Transfeminine letter clubs, community care and the radical politics of the erotic

Honkasalo

2023

European Journal of Women's Studies

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This essay examines trans feminine community-building and care in the context of desire and the erotic as forms of political praxis. The theoretical core of the text builds on Audre Lorde’s broad, poetic use of the erotic as well as José Muñoz’s aesthetic and utopian notion of queer future. I argue that Lorde and Muñoz provide important tools for theorizing the erotic as a politically subversive and utopian form of care in the contemporary political setting of rising anti-genderism, moral conservativism and neo-fascism. The essay begins though a brief, historical examination of the ways in which transgender sexuality, desire and the erotic have come to be a neglected and contested topic in both academic and clinical research, despite what Michel Foucault defines as a ‘discursive explosion’ on the truth about sex and sexuality in modernity. I will then point out historical counter examples of transfeminine, transvestite and cross-dresser community-building in which care is intimately linked to the erotic in Lorde’s sense of the term. Finally, I argue that trans desire and the erotic should be understood as radically political in Muñoz’s sense of utopian imagining of a future yet to be made.

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“…In 2013, the DSM-IV marked a shift from 'gender identity disorder' to 'gender dysphoria' in an attempt to address the stigma of trans subjects in psychiatry. At the same time, progressive social movements and media highlighted the disproportionate risk of violence, mental distress and suicide experienced by trans populations (Austin et al 2021).…”

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From Dorian’s closet to Elektra’s trunk: Visibility, trauma and gender euphoria in Pose

Ferreday¹

2022

Queer Studies in Media &Amp; Popular Culture

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In recent years, queer identities, lives and stories have been integrated into popular culture to an extent that would have been unimaginable until relatively recently. A key part of this attempt to make sense of queerness in the present is the quest for a shared queer past. A trend in recent film and television has been the revisiting and reclaiming of stories that have been erased from mainstream media and from official historical accounts. This links to what might be seen as a wider ‘post-traumatic turn’ in popular culture, in which the traumas of the past are revisited and processed through media in order to understand how they continue to haunt and structure material reality in the present. The link between trauma and representation is particularly important in relation to trans subjects, who have been disproportionately subject to ‘trauma porn’ in mainstream media: in film and tabloid news accounts and through a pathologizing medical gaze. This article focuses on FX’s Pose to consider how contemporary representations of trans people of colour rework and challenge this dominant narrative by invoking images of gender euphoria. By focusing on the figure of drag mother Elektra Abundance, and particularly its reworking of the ‘true crime’ story of real-life drag queen Dorian Corey, I argue that Pose constitutes an important step in attempting to reconcile the need to affirm and reclaim lived experiences of trauma, but to do so in a way that does justice to the creative and intellectual labour of trans, non-binary and gender-non-conforming people of colour. Recycling, reframing and rethinking a broad archive of historic media texts, I argue, poses a challenge both to mainstream notions of visibility and to queer media studies.

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Gender euphoria: a grounded theory exploration of experiencing gender affirmation

Cited by 33 publications

References 35 publications

Gender identity and sexual orientation: a glossary

Gender identity and sexual orientation: a glossary

Transfeminine letter clubs, community care and the radical politics of the erotic

From Dorian’s closet to Elektra’s trunk: Visibility, trauma and gender euphoria in Pose

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