Transgenderists: Products of Non-Normative Intersections of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Tewksbury, Richard; Gagné, Patricia

doi:10.1177/106082659600500202

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“…Other times, transwomen are construed as men enacting fetishist desires (“Gay vs. trans,” 2007; Jeffreys, 1997). And yet another source of conflict can be found within the transgender community when drag queens, cross-dressers, and transsexuals devalue each other’s motives for enacting femininity (Tewksbury & Gagne, 1996). Given these social and interpersonal stressors, social support and community may be particularly important.…”

Section: Educational Heath and Interpersonal Supportsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Being Transgender

Levitt

Ippolito²

2013

Psychology of Women Quarterly

105

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In this interview-based study, we investigated the common social experiences and minority stressors related to being transgender. It is one of two articles that resulted from a grounded theory analysis of interviews with 17 participants who claimed a variety of transgender identities (e.g., cross-dresser, transman, transwoman, butch lesbian) and were from different regions in the United States. The interview was centered on how participants’ identities influenced their lives across different interpersonal contexts. Participants described developing a more complex understanding of gender because of the effect of their transgender status on others and the need to modify their gender presentation at times to secure their safety. In the workplace, their gender could overshadow their competence and, in the age of social media, was always at risk of becoming public. Seeking social support could be dangerous, and the process of transitioning was found to make safe spaces especially elusive. Also, open communication about sex and gender was found to be particularly important within successful intimate relationships. Our findings emphasized the tensions between a need to be respected and valued for oneself and one’s abilities with a need to mitigate the very real dangers of being visible or out as transgender in different contexts. Our research can be used to enhance health professionals’ understandings of transgender people’s life experiences, to identify salient minority stressors for further research exploration, and to advance advocacy.

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Section: Educational Heath and Interpersonal Supportsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Being Transgender

Levitt

Ippolito²

2013

Psychology of Women Quarterly

105

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“…When participants, for instance, redefined their history, others supported their reinterpretation in order to make it fit into a transsexual model -often to the detriment of other nontranssexual identities and experiences. Tewksbury (1998, 1999 -see also Gagné et al 1997, andGagné 1996), are sociologists writing under an influence of symbolic interactionism, critical theory, contemporary feminist theory, and queer theory. They focused much of their work on the definition of a gendered self that most closely matches one of the two genders for over 60 transgender people they interviewed.…”

Section: Writing About Transgender and Transsexual Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Gagné and Tewksbury (1998, 1999– see also Gagné et al. 1997, and Tewksbury and Gagné 1996), are sociologists writing under an influence of symbolic interactionism, critical theory, contemporary feminist theory, and queer theory. They focused much of their work on the definition of a gendered self that most closely matches one of the two genders for over 60 transgender people they interviewed.…”

Section: Sociology's Influencementioning

confidence: 99%

Transgender and Transsexual Studies: Sociology's Influence and Future Steps

Vidal‐Ortiz

2008

Sociology Compass

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This article provides a general sense of transgender studies in sociology. It does so by looking at the definitions and relationship between the terms transgender and transsexual, the history of transsexual studies, sociology's place in this development, and the active production (by trans people) of transsexual and transgender studies. This review primarily focuses on US sociological writing, including ethnomethodology, labeling, feminist, and symbolic interactionist frameworks, while incorporating critical theory, queer theory, and other interdisciplinary influences. The article explores various movements in the recent history of this scholarship: for instance, while transsexual studies were mostly developed with a male‐to‐female transsexual perspective, recent scholarship place female‐to‐male transsexual and transgender identity centrally. I present current trends and future steps of sociological inquiry in the area of transgender studies as a way of closing the discussion of sociology's potential contributions in the near future.

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“…Not all transsexuals choose to complete all possible surgeries or hormone treatments. Sometimes spelled ''transexual'' (Emerson & Rosenfeld, 1996;Lesser, 1999;Tewksbury & Gagne, 1996).…”

Section: Sexual Minoritymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This term originally referred to individuals who lived in another gender but did not desire surgery, meaning ''crossing gender'' rather than ''crossing sex.'' Increasingly, the term has been adopted by many to refer to everyone who transgresses social norms of sex and gender (Emerson & Rosenfeld, 1996;Lesser, 1999;Tewksbury & Gagne, 1996).…”

Section: Transgendermentioning

confidence: 99%

Incorporating Issues of Sexual Orientation in the Classroom: Challenges and Solutions

Fletcher

Russell

2001

Family Relations

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Family studies faculty have an opportunity and a responsibility to address issues related to the development and family lives of sexual minority individuals in graduate and undergraduate courses. This article identifies and discusses 6 challenges involving the incorporation of sexual orientation issues into the classroom: lack of student exposure to accurate information about sexual orientation, selecting a lecture topic, attitudes of intolerance among students, avoiding generalizations, making the topic of sexual orientation relevant to the lives of students, and instructor comfort level concerning the topic of sexual orientation.

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Transgenderists: Products of Non-Normative Intersections of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Cited by 17 publications

References 41 publications

Being Transgender

Being Transgender

Transgender and Transsexual Studies: Sociology's Influence and Future Steps

Incorporating Issues of Sexual Orientation in the Classroom: Challenges and Solutions

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