Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century

Meadow, Tey

doi:10.1093/sf/soz175

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“…Pamela explained that she spent a lot of time thinking about how to make Candice's life as normal as possible; connecting with trans community was part of that effort. This degree of support for trans children and young adults is still rare, especially in the South, but this has begun to change in recent years (for more information on parental support, see Meadow and Travers ).…”

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“We're the Normal Ones Here”: Community Involvement, Peer Support, and Transgender Mental Health

Johnson

Rogers

2019

Sociological Inquiry

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This article uses ethnographic methods to explore how peer support and community involvement influence the mental health and well-being of transgender (or, trans) people in the southeastern United States. The study builds on existing research that suggests that trans community involvement and peer support among trans people enhance mental health experiences and moderate the effects of stigma and discrimination on health outcomes. Through qualitative analysis of 158 hours of participant observation and 33 indepth interviews with members of a trans community organization in the U.S. Southeast, this paper identifies three key processes through which peer support and community involvement enhance the mental health and well-being of trans people: (1) the normalization of trans identities and experiences; (2) the creation of a social support network; and (3) the empowerment of trans people.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“We're the Normal Ones Here”: Community Involvement, Peer Support, and Transgender Mental Health

Johnson

Rogers

2019

Sociological Inquiry

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“…For trans populations in particular, sociologists have explored similar questions regarding trans inclusion in a multitude of institutions and organizational settings (see, e.g. Connell, 2010;David, 2015;Meadow, 2018;Pfeffer, 2017;Schilt, 2006), and women's spaces in particular, such as sports, shelters, sororities, prisons, bathrooms and locker rooms, dorms, and communal lands/collectives (see e.g. Boyd, 2006;Gamson, 1997;Griffin, 2012;Westbrook & Schilt, 2014).…”

Section: Gendered Organizations Transing Organizationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transgender student experiences in single‐sexcolleges

Nanney

2020

Sociology Compass

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This article reviews popular and scholarly literature on transgender students' experiences who are enrolled in single‐sex colleges. Because such colleges rely on bounded conceptions of sex/gender to determine who can and cannot be eligible for admission, the enrollment and matriculation of transgender students pose a challenge to the central organizing logic of the single‐sex environment. As such, I first draw upon theorizations of gendered and queer organizations to highlight the utility of sociology in analyzing the transing of organizations through transgender inclusion. Using this framework, I then address trans student experiences at the time of admission and during matriculation at single‐sex colleges. These perspectives frame transgender inclusion as a new organizational form but one that is rooted in the social construction of transnormativity rather than institutional transformation.

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“…This poses an especially difficult challenge for scholars studying CF and patients' experiences of embodiment because many people often do not achieve a fully actualized gender identity until well into their adult years (Fausto-Sterling 2012). Even as some children gain more options for exploring transgender identities at younger ages of late, the vast majority of people come to an understanding, as well as resources for making sense, of their gender identities as part of early and later adulthood (Meadow 2018). Despite an increasingly developed awareness of how and when people come into nonbinary gender identities as they age, both generally and within the specific context of chronic illness, formal scholarship on nonbinary experience with CF and its relationship to embodiment remains largely nonexistent.…”

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The Salt without the Girl: Negotiating Embodied Identity as an Agender Person with Cystic Fibrosis

Nowakowski¹

2019

Social Sciences

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In this manuscript, I build and expand on prior work by myself (Nowakowski, 2016) and others exploring the dynamics of embodiment among people with chronic health conditions. Specifically, I critically investigate the intersecting social and medical elements of responses to bodies perceived as too thin and otherwise lacking in physical ability, using my own experiences of living and aging with cystic fibrosis (CF) as a case example. In these explorations, I center gendered identity and its intersection with disabling physical illness. I do so by using my own lived experiences as autoethnographic anchor points to guide critical review of key concepts from the nexus of these two content areas. I focus throughout on exploring how others’ reactions to a frail-looking body often constitute a form of forced gendering via the narratives people attempt to construct for why a person’s body appears that way. The title of the manuscript supports this framework by referencing three cornerstones of patient experience in the CF community: the general trend of patients having salty skin due to the pathology of the disease, a prior embodiment project called Salty Girls (Pettigrew, 2012) that engages this idea, and the more abstract concept of “saltiness” in describing the grit marginalized people display in responding to microaggressions.

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Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century

Cited by 48 publications

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“We're the Normal Ones Here”: Community Involvement, Peer Support, and Transgender Mental Health

“We're the Normal Ones Here”: Community Involvement, Peer Support, and Transgender Mental Health

Transgender student experiences in single‐sexcolleges

The Salt without the Girl: Negotiating Embodied Identity as an Agender Person with Cystic Fibrosis

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