Between 1924 and 1932 room was made in the German gay and lesbian publication house Radszuweit Verlag for gender expansive topics not having to do with sexuality. Specifically, these new sections and periodicals addressed the experiences of transvestites, the first collective id…
"39" Result
Sort By:
The transgender community is often targeted by hate crimes at greater levels than anyone else under the LGBTQAI+ umbrella but the true scope of the epidemic is far from understood due to dramatically low rates of reported hate crimes. The current study seeks to understand the re…
Self-coherence as the hub of all needs is a novel proposition made by Carol Dweck (2017), and not yet further explored. While supporting self-coherence with a comprehensive review of its presence within behavioral sciences, Dweck does not dive deeper into it, and offers an invit…
This documentary short film is about a now 30-year-old transgender man telling his story of growing up queer in a small Arkansas town, from being outed as a lesbian in high school, to ultimately being accepted as a trans man by members of his military and biological families. Be…
About 30% of Indonesian male to female transgenders (Waria) are estimated to be HIV-positive. Unprotected anal sex was the major route of HIV transmission among waria in Indonesia. As indicated by previous studies, multilevel factors were found to be significantly associated wit…
Transgender populations face substantial barriers to healthcare access, exacerbated by a lack of inclusive research. The health needs of those who are gender nonbinary or genderqueer, identifying outside the binary of man and woman, are especially poorly understood. Using a prim…
Identifying as a Jewish transgender woman can come with a plethora of stigma and challenges. Compounded by the ongoing existence of microaggressions and violence, a 2009 survey found individuals who identify as transgender are 40 times more likely to have attempted suicide than …
This thesis explores the construction and use of the hijra figure in fictional literature. It argues that hijras are utilised as both symbols of deviance and central points around which wider anti-sociality circulates. In order to contextualise these characters and offer a deepe…
Sperling Enterprises conducted a survey for Money Magazine in January, 2004 which in part examined one hundred large, medium and small metropolitan areas in the United States to determine which metropolitan areas were the most and least stressful places to reside. The Harrisburg…
Between 1998 and 1999, San Francisco activists, politicians, and service providers proposed and then opened an emergency, temporary winter shelter for homeless LGBTQQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Questioning) youth called "Castro Shelter" in the heart of the …
The influence of traditional Islamic values on Turkish policy making has resulted in further marginalization, stigmatization, and socially disparate outcomes for those who do not fit the dominant hetero-normative gender norms and sexual identities. A macro level analysis of the …
In 2009, the Pakistani Supreme Court began granting rights to gender ambiguous people who are locally known as khwaja siras. The Court organized this population into taxonomic groups and ordered the government to 'mainstream' them. These actions were based on certain cultural as…
In 2011 the National Academy of Medicine identified research gaps related to transgender populations and suggested a research agenda that included, among other goals, investigating health outcomes related to transition related care. The overarching goal of this dissertation ther…
The transgender community in India, commonly known as hijras, consists of people who were born as males but address themselves as females. They have been considered as the third gender in India for millennia and have had specific religious and sociocultural values and roles, but…
Transgender is the term used for and by individuals whose gender identity does not align with their assigned anatomy at birth. Transgender visibility has been steadily increasing, and with that increase has also been the recognition of transphobia-based marginalization, victimiz…
Although understanding and accommodating client preferences is important for effective healthcare, few speech-language pathology studies have examined these preferences. This investigation explores gender diverse individuals’ preferences for gender-affirming voice modification (…
Despite advancements in research on sexual morphology as well as increasing interdisciplinary theory on gender, medicine continues to perpetuate anti-transgender stigma in health care. Research on this topic has typically lacked perspectives from health professionals, who operat…
Within this written thesis and in conjunction with a physical practice I will explore the complex nature of identity as a universal concept throughout humanity. Examining how it develops and changes through time as a fluid thing. From my perspective, as a gender and sexually que…
The U.S. Department of Defense’s June 2016 directive-type memorandum 16-005 permitting transgender service members to serve openly in the U.S. military disqualifies transgender personnel with a history of gender dysphoria from serving in the military unless a licensed medical do…