What's the Difference? Bringing Particularity to Queer Studies of Transgender

Hines, Sally

doi:10.1080/09589230500486918

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“…Some focus on differences between sexual groups and critique those that lump sexualities while others seek to destabilize difference and critique those who would reify it. A sexual diversity lens may be a way to sidestep this boundary policingand focus instead on question-specific particularities or generalities while valuing both (for some relevant discussion, see Hines, 2006).…”

Section: Sexual Diversity Studies and Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond Sexual Orientation: Integrating Gender/Sex and Diverse Sexualities via Sexual Configurations Theory

2015

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Sexual orientation typically describes people's sexual attractions or desires based on their sex relative to that of a target. Despite its utility, it has been critiqued in part because it fails to account for non-biological gender-related factors, partnered sexualities unrelated to gender or sex, or potential divergences between love and lust. In this article, I propose Sexual Configurations Theory (SCT) as a testable, empirically grounded framework for understanding diverse partnered sexualities, separate from solitary sexualities. I focus on and provide models of two parameters of partnered sexuality--gender/sex and partner number. SCT also delineates individual gender/sex. I discuss a sexual diversity lens as a way to study the particularities and generalities of diverse sexualities without privileging either. I also discuss how sexual identities, orientations, and statuses that are typically seen as misaligned or aligned are more meaningfully conceptualized as branched or co-incident. I map out some existing identities using SCT and detail its applied implications for health and counseling work. I highlight its importance for sexuality in terms of measurement and social neuroendocrinology, and the ways it may be useful for self-knowledge and feminist and queer empowerment and alliance building. I also make a case that SCT changes existing understandings and conceptualizations of sexuality in constructive and generative ways informed by both biology and culture, and that it is a potential starting point for sexual diversity studies and research.

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Section: Sexual Diversity Studies and Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond Sexual Orientation: Integrating Gender/Sex and Diverse Sexualities via Sexual Configurations Theory

2015

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“…11 -SAYI NO. 4 18 Devor 1997;Ekins ve King 2006;Hines 2006Hines , 2007aHines , 2007bLee, 2001;Namaste, 2000;Noble, 2006;Prosser, 1998;Stryker, 2006;West, 2004;Whittle, Turner ve Al-Alami 2007. 19 Öztürk, 2011.…”

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Sexual Orientation Concealment of LGBTT Individuals In Turkey As A Candidate State Of The European Union (EU) And The Role Of Urban Planning

Güney¹

2016

Megaron

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Mercan EFE GÜNEY, İrem AYHAN SELÇUKŞehir planlama Türkiye'de, "öteki" olarak nitelendirilen grupların tümünü içermediğinden, planlama herkes için yapılamamaktadır. Bu metin, ötekilerden biri olarak LGBTT bireylerin (Lezbiyen, Gey, Biseksüel, Transseksüel, Travesti) Türkiye'de görünür olabilmelerinin yolunu açabilmek için gizlenme, baskı görme, baskıları aşmada yaşadıkları kentin etkisi ve şiddet konularına açıklık getirerek şehir planlama mesleğinin bu konularda neler yapması gerektiği/yapabileceği konusunu tartışmaya açmaktadır. Metinde, homofobik bir ülke olan Türkiye'de LGBTT bireylerle ilgili sosyal ve ekonomik değişkenler verilecek ve kent planlama çalışmalarına katkı sunacak mekânsal değişkenler ayrış-tırılmaya çalışılacaktır. Temmuz-Eylül 2012 tarihleri arasında Ankara'da Kaos-GL Derneği aracılığıyla 68; İzmir'de Siyah Pembe Üçgen İnisi-yatifi aracılığıyla yapılan 155 anketin değerlendirilmesi bu çalışmanın yöntemini oluşturmaktadır. Planlama kapsamında LGBTT bireylerin kendisi gibi olabilmeleri için yapılacak öneriler, bu çalışmanın literatüre katkısını oluşturacaktır. Urban planning doesn't cover the groups labeled as "other". This article explains urban effects and violence experienced by theLGBTTs (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual, and Transgender)

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“…This has led to the more contemporary framing of 'transgender' as a politicalised subversion of (hetero)sexual and gender discourses and associated rigidities (see Hines &Sanger, 2010, andStryker &Whittle, 2006, for more detailed overviews). There is, however, much contestation over the politicisation of 'trans' as a vanguard of postmodern change.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There is, however, much contestation over the politicisation of 'trans' as a vanguard of postmodern change. For example, strong criticism has been made of the essentialisation of transgender in queer theorisations of 'difference', neglect of the varied lived experiences of (non-White, non-middle class) trans people, and disregard of the ordinariness and diversity of transitioning (Hines, 2006;Namaste, 2000Namaste, , 2011Prosser, 1999;Richards, Barker, Lenihan & Iantaffi, 2014;Serano, 2013a)1.…”

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Authenticity, validation and sexualisation on Grindr: an analysis of trans women’s accounts

Lloyd

Finn

2017

Psychology & Sexuality

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Uncorrected proofThe socio-historic sexualisation of transgender identities is reported to have disaffirming consequences for the broad trans community, and for trans women in particular. Given trans people's increasing use of socio-sexual 'hook up' apps, this paper looks at trans women's talk of self/other identifications in relation to their regular use of Grindr. Eight semi-structured indepth interviews were conducted with London-based women who identified as trans* in some way. A Foucauldian-informed discourse analysis highlights intersecting frames of trans authenticity, validation and sexualisation. Within these frames trans women can be variously positioned in gendered and sexualised ways. Specifically, a discourse of trans authenticity is seen to involve the marking out of an identificatory truth that is situated in culturally acceptable and hence de-sexualised womanhood, while a competing discourse of trans validation involves an ambiguity and eroticism that can serve to reimagine this truth. Trans subjectivities can thus consist of a desire for authentic (gendered and non-sexualised) selfhood, on the one hand, and self-affirming ambiguity and sexualisation on the other. That trans women can construct ambivalent relationships with trans sexualisation discourse highlights the limitation of anti-sexualisation advocacy and implications for supporting trans sexualities are considered.

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What's the Difference? Bringing Particularity to Queer Studies of Transgender

Cited by 88 publications

References 12 publications

Beyond Sexual Orientation: Integrating Gender/Sex and Diverse Sexualities via Sexual Configurations Theory

Beyond Sexual Orientation: Integrating Gender/Sex and Diverse Sexualities via Sexual Configurations Theory

Sexual Orientation Concealment of LGBTT Individuals In Turkey As A Candidate State Of The European Union (EU) And The Role Of Urban Planning

Authenticity, validation and sexualisation on Grindr: an analysis of trans women’s accounts

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