Sexual and Gender Diversity Among Sexual and Gender/Sex Majorities: Insights via Sexual Configurations Theory

Abed, Emma C.; Schudson, Zach C.; Gunther, Olivia D.; Beischel, Will J.; Anders, Sari M. van

doi:10.1007/s10508-018-1340-2

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“…44 Task Forces,n.d.). A significant amount of this research, as well as sexological research, focuses on gender dynamics (Abed, Schudson, Gunther, Beischel, & van Anders 2019;Barker & Langdridge, 2010;Britton et al, 1998;Carpenter, 2010;Conley, Ziegler, & Moors, 2013;Crofford, 2018;Glass & Wright, 1992;Manley, Diamond, & van Anders, 2015;Pain, 2018;Sheff, 2005a;van Anders, 2015), physical or emotional response (Anderson, 2010;Aumer, Bellew, Ito, Hatfield, & Heck 2014;Bringle & Buunk, 2014;Buunk, Angleitner, Oubaid, & Buss, 1996;Buunk & Bakker, 1995;deVisser & McDonald, 2007;Flanders, Dobinson, & Logie, 2015;Hosking, 2014;van Anders, 2015; van Anders & Goldey, 2010; van Anders, Hamilton, & Watson, 2007;van Anders & Watson, 2006), contemporary LGBTQ + experiences (Cardoso, 2014;Hegarty, 2013;Pain, 2018;Richards, 2010;Santos, 2019), or relationship consequences. There is also a small group of authors focusing on legal issues (Aviram, 2005(Aviram, , 2008Aviram & Leachman, 2015;Diamond & Rosky, 2016;Emens, 2004;Goldfarb, 2020).…”

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"Storming then Performing": Historical Non-Monogamy and Metamour Collaboration

Watson

Lubrano

2021

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"Storming then Performing": Historical Non-Monogamy and Metamour Collaboration

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Lubrano

2021

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“…One academic gender identity topic that receives considerable attention is the intersectionality of identity components (Abed et al, 2019). For example, it is well known that the physical disease and mortality risks to poor black trans females with a high school education compared to wealthy white college educated trans women are far greater in terms of HIV infection (Baral et al, 2013).…”

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Reflections on the Clinician’s Role with Individuals Who Self-identify as Transgender

Levine

2021

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The fact that modern patterns of the treatment of trans individuals are not based on controlled or long-term comprehensive follow-up studies has allowed many ethical tensions to persist. These have been intensifying as the numbers of adolescent girls declare themselves to be trans, have gender dysphoria, or are “boys.” This essay aims to assist clinicians in their initial approach to trans patients of any age. Gender identity is only one aspect of an individual’s multifaceted identity. The contributions to the passionate positions in the trans culture debate are discussed along with the controversy over the official, not falsifiable, position that all gender identities are inherently normal. The essay posits that it is relevant and ethical to investigate the forces that may have propelled an individual to create and announce a new identity. Some of these biological, social, and psychological forces are enumerated. Using the adolescent patient as an example, a model for a comprehensive evaluation process and its goals are provided. The essay is framed within a developmental perspective.

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“…The SCT In-Person Study (Abed et al, 2019) In the SCT In-Person study, we conducted extensive inperson qualitative interviews with 26 gender/sex/ual majority individuals to explore how they might make sense of themselves using SCT (Abed et al, 2019;van Anders, 2015). Our interviewers-a young, white, cisgender, sexual minority woman; a young, white, cisgender sexual majority woman; and a young, Asian-American, cisgender, sexual majority man-experienced challenges in some cases where our participants held multiple majority identities that set off power differentials amplified by our research methods.…”

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“…We have experienced some of the challenges of working with gender/sex/ual majority participants in our research on gender/sex/ual diversity (Abed et al, 2019;Beischel et al, 2021a;Schudson et al, 2019). In this article, we describe this, focusing on three separate projects, and the ways this nexus of minority-inclusive research practices meets gender/sex/ual majority participants led to overempowerment.…”

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Overempowered? Diversity-Focused Research with Gender/Sex and Sexual Majorities

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Beischel

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Diversity-focused research can provide important insights about gender/sex and sexual diversity, including in relation to oppression and privilege. To do so, it needs to critically engage with power and include minoritized and majoritized participants. But, the critical methods guiding this are typically aimed at empowering marginalized groups and may “overempower” majority participants. Here, we discuss three diversity-focused research projects about gender/sex and sexual diversity where our use of critical methods overempowered majority participants in ways that reinforced their privilege. We detail how diversity-focused research approaches thus need to be “majority-situating”: attending to and managing the privilege and power that majority participants carry to research. Yet, we also lay out how diversity-focused research still needs to be “minority-inclusive”: validating, welcoming, and empowering to people from marginalized social locations. We discuss these approaches working synergistically; minority-inclusive methods can also be majority-situating, providing majorities with opportunities for growth, learning, and seeing that they—and not just “others”—are socially situated. We conclude by laying out what a diversity-focused research program might look like that includes both majority-situating and minority-inclusive approaches, to work towards a more just and empirical scholarship that does not lead to majorities who are even more overempowered.

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Sexual and Gender Diversity Among Sexual and Gender/Sex Majorities: Insights via Sexual Configurations Theory

Cited by 35 publications

References 45 publications

"Storming then Performing": Historical Non-Monogamy and Metamour Collaboration

"Storming then Performing": Historical Non-Monogamy and Metamour Collaboration

Reflections on the Clinician’s Role with Individuals Who Self-identify as Transgender

Overempowered? Diversity-Focused Research with Gender/Sex and Sexual Majorities

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