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Title
Not trans enough: how perceptions of others, normativity, and horizontal transphobia create false transgender authenticity
Description
The requirements for a gender dysphoria diagnosis, and therefore access to medical interventions such as surgeries or hormones, reinforce a male/female binary and do not allow room for variability in how a transgender person identifies. Transgender individuals who wish to access medical interventions must reflect these regulatory requirements in order to receive a diagnosis of gender dysphoria. So what is the experience of transgender individuals who do not reflect this narrative? How do they develop identity, form community, and make decisions regarding their transition? Using feminist methodology and grounded theory methods, I conducted a research study with ten transgender-identified individuals from Phoenix, Arizona in order to address these questions. In interviews with these participants, I found that perceptions of others, normativity, and horizontal transphobia all affected how participants identity and decision-making. Further, I also found that these themes contributed to creating transgender authenticity, or the false sense that there is only one way to be truly transgender.
Date Created
2017
Contributors
- Hudson, Wallace J (Author)
- Leong, Karen J. (Thesis advisor)
- Bailey, Marlon M. (Committee member)
- Vega, Sujey (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
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Resource Type
Extent
v, 94 pages : illustrations (some color)
Language
eng
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
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Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.44156
Statement of Responsibility
by Wallace J. Hudson
Description Source
Viewed on September 19, 2017
Level of coding
full
Note
thesis
Partial requirement for: M.A., Arizona State University, 2017
bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 79-83)
Field of study: Gender studies
System Created
- 2017-06-01 01:52:37
System Modified
- 2021-08-26 09:47:01
- 3 years 2 months ago
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