Workplace Aggression: Toward Social Justice and Advocacy in Counseling for Transgender Individuals

Sangganjanavanich, Varunee Faii; Cavazos, Javier

doi:10.1080/15538605.2010.524844

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“…This paper complements the main foci of health literature on trans people which assumes that they are clients, and the workplace literature which mainly addresses gender transition and related policies—important as they are to trans people's worklives (e.g., [10, 12, 17, 36]). The findings also extend the dearth of trans-focused literature in the counselling and vocational literature (e.g., [11, 33, 35–39]).…”

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confidence: 78%

“…Decisions to transition in the workplace are informed by many factors that include underemployment, available support systems, and weighing the costs of job-loss or unpredictable discrimination that mark many environments for trans people [8, 9, 11]. Certainly income level and access to education are also relevant to trans individuals' capacity to enter the professions.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Gender, Work, and Health for Trans Health Providers: A Focus on Transmen

MacDonnell

Grigorovich

2012

ISRN Nursing

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Well-documented health research points to trans people's vulnerability to health inequities that are linked to deeply embedded structural and social determinants of health. Gender and work, as social determinants of health for trans people, both shape and are shaped by multiple factors such as support networks, social environments, income and social status, shelter, and personal health practices. There is a gap in the nursing literature in regards to research on work and health for diverse trans people and a virtual silence on the particular issues of trans-identified health providers. This qualitative study used comparative life history methodology and purposeful sampling to examine links among work, career, and health for transmen who are health providers. Semistructured interviews were completed with four Canadian transmen involved in health care professional and/or practice contexts with diverse professions, age, work, and transitioning experiences. Critical gender analysis showed that unique and gender-related critical events and influences shape continuities and discontinuities in their careerlives. This strength-based approach foregrounds how resilience and growth emerged through participants' articulation with everyday gender dynamics. These findings have implications for nursing research, education, and practice that include an understanding of how trans providers “do transgender work” and supporting them in that process.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 78%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender, Work, and Health for Trans Health Providers: A Focus on Transmen

MacDonnell

Grigorovich

2012

ISRN Nursing

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“…Gender transitioning individuals face multiple levels of oppression and prejudice. It is essential that career development practitioners acknowledge the existence of transphobia and transprejudice by initiating a conversation regarding the impact of social stigmatization and marginalization on the client's well‐being (Dispenza, Watson, Chung, & Brack, ; Sangganjanavanich & Cavazos, ). In addition, career development practitioners should identify and address intersecting identity variables that influence the individual's unique experience, within and outside the workplace (O'Neil et al, ).…”

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Facilitating Career Development Concerns of Gender Transitioning Individuals: Professional Standards and Competencies

Sangganjanavanich

Headley

2013

The Career Development Quart

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Gender transition is a complex process that entails various psychosocial challenges, including career development, to transitioning individuals. Career development practitioners are required to be knowledgeable of the current professional standards and competencies of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health () and the American Counseling Association () to help gender transitioning individuals address career development concerns. In this article, the authors review these newly proposed professional standards for and competencies in working with gender transitioning individuals and highlight unique career development concerns of this population. Practical implications for career development practitioners are discussed.

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“…For queer theorists, work organizations are important contexts where gender, work and organizing intersect, and where queer bodies and lived experiences are concealed, revealed, read, reacted upon and accepted (Thanem, 2011). Despite making major strides in recent years, people who identify as queer continue to face discrimination and stigmatization across public and private spheres (Budge et al, 2010;Sangganjanavanich and Cavazos, 2010;Sear and Mallory, 2011). These experiences are especially acute in work, organization and employment contexts, in which people who identify as queer often find themselves belonging to a gendered and sexualized minority typically not associated with professionalism (e.g., Rumens and Kerfoot, 2009).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Situated Transgressiveness: Exploring One Transwoman's Lived Experiences across Three Situated Contexts

Muhr¹,

Sullivan²,

Rich³

2015

Gender Work & Organization

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This study investigates the lived experience of one transwoman, Claire, a public advocate and a manager with client services responsibilities. We examine Claire's story in order to discuss how situated contexts, such as different roles, locales and interactions, shape the way she experiences and perceives her trans body and gender identity. In particular, our analysis centres on how Claire's lived experience of personal and professional life shift across three different situated contexts, each enabling and constraining opportunities for political transgression. Our findings contribute to existing conversations within queer theory, transgender and organization studies by highlighting how situated contexts mediate the political potential of queer bodies at work. By developing the concept ‘situated transgressiveness’, this article challenges notions of transgender as a stable, ideal disruptive category and advances a more contextually sensitive approach to understanding the contingency of transgender lives and politics. Such insights are important in facilitating more nuanced understandings of the situatedness of transgression and transgender bodies within work and professional settings.

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Workplace Aggression: Toward Social Justice and Advocacy in Counseling for Transgender Individuals

Cited by 22 publications

References 14 publications

Gender, Work, and Health for Trans Health Providers: A Focus on Transmen

Gender, Work, and Health for Trans Health Providers: A Focus on Transmen

Facilitating Career Development Concerns of Gender Transitioning Individuals: Professional Standards and Competencies

Situated Transgressiveness: Exploring One Transwoman's Lived Experiences across Three Situated Contexts

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