How to Be a Girl: Mainstream Media Portrayals of Transgendered Lives in Japan

Mackie, Vera

doi:10.1080/10357820802298538

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“…Research from around the world find that transgender people are becoming more visible in the media (Capuzza 2015;Mackie 2008;Roen, Blakar, and Nafstad 2011), and reporting on trans issues increased over time also in this paper. However, it is not enough for trans expressions to figure in news media, it is also crucial that these representations go further than simply reproducing stereotypes.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 58%

“…Where trans expressions are a means of necessity, without outspoken link to personal identity, Ryan (2009) argues that the person becomes less exposed to stigmatisation. Also, trans people who appear to be embracing the binary gender norms, adhering to the "good transsexual" narrative are represented more favourably (Skidmore 2011, 205; see also Espineira 2016;Glover 2016;Mackie 2008).…”

Section: Representations Of Trans People In the Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Representations of Trans People in Swedish Newspapers

Åkerlund

2018

Journalism Studies

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This article analyses the discursive representations of trans people in 15,901 mainstream Swedish newspaper articles between 2000 and 2017 using topic modelling and critical discourse analysis. Drawing from critical perspectives on gender it was found that the articles to various degree assisted in maintaining heteronormativity. The discursive strategies employed by the journalists included trivialisation of trans expressions as dress-up and incorporation of them within binary stereotypes. Trans people were also excluded and deemed as deviant in some articles through insensitive gender descriptions and descriptions. Through the voices of experts, trans people were silenced and pathologized and while some representations of trans people were meant to empower, and offered a slightly less rigid view on gender, these articles too reinforced heteronormativity through continuous referral to binary gender.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 58%

Section: Representations Of Trans People In the Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

Representations of Trans People in Swedish Newspapers

Åkerlund

2018

Journalism Studies

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“…This work is therefore situated in the specifc context of transgender people in Japan. In this context, trans preoccupations do not always align with the ones identifed by HCI researchers focusing on Western transgender experiences and needs (see [12,17,24]). For example, in her account of female-to-male (FtM) transgender experiences in Tokyo, Yuen [38] explains that "while some feminist and queer theorists have emphasized the transgressive potential of transgender -that by nature of their gender fuidity trans people can function as vehicles to challenge prevailing gender norms and overcome the limitations of the binaristic gender/sexual systemsubverting or challenging the gender status-quo is not something many FtM trans people in Japan are concerned with".…”

Section: Studying Transgender People In Japanmentioning

confidence: 93%

Exploring a Makeup Support System for Transgender Passing based on Automatic Gender Recognition

Chong

Maudet

Harima³

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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How to handle gender with machine learning is a controversial topic. A growing critical body of research brought attention to the numerous issues transgender communities face with the adoption of current automatic gender recognition (AGR) systems. In contrast, we explore how such technologies could potentially be appropriated to support transgender practices and needs, especially in non-Western contexts like Japan. We designed a virtual makeup probe to assist transgender individuals with passing, that is to be perceived as the gender they identify as. To understand how such an application might support expressing transgender individuals gender identity or not, we interviewed 15 individuals in Tokyo and found that in the right context and under strict conditions, AGR based systems could assist transgender passing.

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“…Moreover, Capuzza (2015) and Billard (2016) contend that news media reiterate the misnaming and misgendering of trans individuals, the hyper-sexualization of their bodies and the misrepresentation of their identities. Concerning this last point, mainstream cultural products represent gender diversity in an assimilative way: the focus is on trans people who situate themselves within the binary (Westbrook, 2010), on the extent to which they pass (Mackie, 2008), and in the evocation of feelings of pity (Kelso, 2015). Trans people's experiences of discrimination are usually depicted as individual struggles, thus negating the structural dimension of cisgenderism and reiterating neoliberal rhetorics of self-actualization (Capuzza, 2015).…”

Section: Cultural Production Online Media and Trans Peoplementioning

confidence: 99%

Online reverse discourses? Claiming a space for trans voices

Primo

Zamperini

Testoni

2019

Feminism & Psychology

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In recent years, online media have offered to trans people helpful resources to create new political, cultural and personal representations of their biographies. However, the role of these media in the construction of their social and personal identities has seldom been addressed. Drawing on the theoretical standpoint of positioning theory and diatextual discourse analysis, this paper discusses the results of a research project about weblogs created by Italian trans women. In particular, the aim of this study was to describe the ways online resources are used to express different definitions and interpretation of transgenderism, transsexuality and gender transitioning. We identified four main positioning strategies: “Transgender”, “Transsexual before being a woman”, “A woman who was born male” and “Just a normal woman”. We conclude with the political implications of the pluralization of narratives about gender non-conformity. Specifically, we will highlight how aspects of neoliberal discourses have been appropriated and rearticulated in the construction of gendered subjectivities.

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How to Be a Girl: Mainstream Media Portrayals of Transgendered Lives in Japan

Cited by 22 publications

References 6 publications

Representations of Trans People in Swedish Newspapers

Representations of Trans People in Swedish Newspapers

Exploring a Makeup Support System for Transgender Passing based on Automatic Gender Recognition

Online reverse discourses? Claiming a space for trans voices

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