Recognizing the Full Spectrum of Gender? Transgender, Intersex and the Futures of Feminist Theology

Cornwall, Susannah

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“…62 Researchers need to understand that the construction of gender identity is not a linear construction between masculinity and femininity and that this binary is changing as the younger trans-identified generations emerge. [63][64][65] The complexity of the trans-population identification makes it hard to construct probability samples that can be said to be representative of the population. 23,66 The current TMLS has 24 respondent options for gender self-perception.…”

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It's Not All Darkness: Robustness, Resilience, and Successful Transgender Aging

Witten

2014

LGBT Health

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We review the recent psychosocial literature on transgender aging. We also report relevant in-press results from the Trans MetLife Survey on Later-Life Preparedness and Perceptions in Transgender-Identified Individuals (TMLS) on end-of-life and later-life trans-aging. To obtain relevant literature, we employed the search engines Google Scholar, Stanford Highwire, and PubMed/Medline. Databases searched included Web of Science, Cinhal, PsyINFO, Gender Studies Database, Sociological Abstracts, and Social Services Abstracts. Keyword searches included "transgender" and "transsexual." Key phrases included "transgender aging," "transsexual aging," and "LGBT aging." Years searched were from January 1, 2011, through April 26, 2013. We found two types of articles: LGBT aging-related (or lumped aging) articles and articles that focused specifically on transgender aging, or trans-aging. We found that the articles spoke of concerns and fears regarding discrimination, potential abuse at the hands of caregivers, inability to live out their lives in their true identities, risk of becoming homeless, loss of independence, and dementia, among other concerns. We note that the elder trans-identified population is significantly ill-prepared for the major legal issues that arise and events that occur in the later-life to end-of-life time periods. Despite these difficulties, a few articles spoke of resilience and successful aging in the population. Some TMLS respondents indicated that they were considering either "detransitioning," that is, changing social presentation to the pretransition gender identity, or suicide (which some referred to as euthanasia) as means of managing the severe problems they expected to encounter later in the aging process. A number of potentially modifiable risk factors exist within this population. Modification strategies include increasing the population awareness of the need for end-of-life legal preparations for members of the trans-identified community as well as those who serve it. There is a continued need to reduce stigma and to include gender identity/gender presentation in nondiscrimination and hate crime statutes. Despite these difficulties, there is a resilience and robustness that can be found in many individuals within the community of transgender older adults. There is a need to investigate this further.

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It's Not All Darkness: Robustness, Resilience, and Successful Transgender Aging

Witten

2014

LGBT Health

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“…While constructionist approaches (including those of queer theory) have been critiqued for sometimes using trans bodies to articulate the "fluidity" of gender, Doan (2016) clarifies how a queer destabilising of gender (transcending the male/female gender binary) as socially constructed can be a powerful way of illuminating how the tyranny of gender unfolds in and through different spaces if trans bodies are not discountedin analysisfrom the environments in which they live, breathe, and excrete fluids (see also Cornwell, 2014;Johnston, 2015;Rosenberg & Oswin, 2015). After detailing our methodology, we explain how three spaces of the campus enable micro-aggressions and misrecognition.…”

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Trans experiences of a university campus in northern England

Mearns

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Hopkins

2019

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The spatial experiences of transgender and gender non-conforming ("trans") people continue to occupy the margins of geography, especially compared to the amount of work centred on lesbian and gay lives. Though research on trans geographies in educational and health settings is expanding, most literatures stem from the USA. This paper shares findings from a study about the experiences of trans people who study and/or work on a specific university campus in northern England. Our findings demonstrate how particular spaces of the campus are generative of interactions which enable micro-aggressions and misrecognition. K E Y W O R D S feminist geographies, higher education, Northern England, qualitative interviews, trans geographies, university campus 1 | INTRODUCTION In this paper, we explore the experiences of transgender staff and students on a university campus in northern England. University campuses are sites of meaningful encounters (Andersson et al., 2012) and those who identify as transgender and/or gender non-conforming are some of the most marginalised students on campus. We contend that it is important to give voice to the experiences of transgender staff and students and we set out to do so in this paper. We offer a brief introduction to debates about transgender geographies before setting out the Foucauldian and queer perspectives framing our research. We then detail findings according to the three spaces in which trans students and staff felt most marginal: bathrooms, residential accommodation, and spaces of learning and conviviality. A final part of the paper summarises how campuses may be made inclusive of trans people. 2 | TRANS GEOGRPHIES OF THE CAMPUS British anti-discrimination laws have only been extended to trans people during the past decade, partly thanks to Press For Change and similar advocacy groups (Mitchell & Howarth, 2009). There remains no Census data on the trans population in England, Wales, and Scotland but estimates suggest there are anything from 65,000 to 300,000 trans people in the UK. A 2014 survey of 4,000 lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans (LGBT) students by the National Union of Students highlighted that only 20.6% felt "completely safe" on campus, while a third had suffered bullying and 56% considered "dropping out" (Acciari, 2014). In June 2019, the Metropolitan Police confirmed a doubling of hate crimes against LGBT people in the past five years in wider society (Marsh et al., 2019). Historically, universities have been seen to provide people with an opportunity to experiment with alternative gender and/or sexual identities away from constraints of "home" and school (Marine & Nicolazzo, 2014). However, Formby (2015) posits that there remain few qualitative studies that detail the specific challenges faced by trans students and staff in the UK. Research on trans lives is usually US-centred (Ullman, 2018) or situated alongside "sexual minorities" (Ellis, 2008).

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Performing Faith

Goh

2020

Gender, Sexualities and Culture in Asia

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Recognizing the Full Spectrum of Gender? Transgender, Intersex and the Futures of Feminist Theology

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It's Not All Darkness: Robustness, Resilience, and Successful Transgender Aging

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