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TSQ (2020) 7 (4): 585–597.
Published: 01 November 2020
... to transphobia, migrant TGW face multiple forms of discrimination because of intersection with other experiences of stigma related to migration and working as sex workers in the host society. This study explores the experiences of TGW seeking care in an HIV and STI clinic in Paris, to evaluate medical adherence...
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TSQ (2018) 5 (2): 228–244.
Published: 01 May 2018
... . They may seek surgery to reduce gender dysphoria or to enhance gender euphoria. Professional literature and medical protocols such as the World Professional Association for Transgender Health's (WPATH) Standards of Care , version 7 ( SOC -7), have been developed to reflect the needs of people who want...
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TSQ (2022) 9 (2): 172–183.
Published: 01 May 2022
... within the genealogy of the medical management of transgender and intersex people. The study also examines how medical authority consolidates itself through the “trans-intersex nexus”—a mechanism in which trans and intersex people are placed in a relationship of simultaneous separation and reinforcement...
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TSQ (2015) 2 (1): 123–135.
Published: 01 February 2015
...Anna M. KŁonkowska Abstract The article examines the criteria for determining which individuals become legible as transgender in Poland and how expert medical and legal discourses normalize the gender identity, sexuality, and gender performativity of this group. Only those transgender people who...
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TSQ (2018) 5 (4): 606–620.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Julian Gill-Peterson Abstract How has a reliance on the medical archive distorted the intelligibility of trans of color life in the past? This essay interrogates the limit points of black trans and trans of color life in the early twentieth century. Examining a case at the Johns Hopkins Hospital...
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TSQ (2015) 2 (1): 136–147.
Published: 01 February 2015
... of gender and gender identity presents a unique set of challenges for medical settings. One central challenge is the conflict between, on one hand, the need to know and use patients' preferred names, gender identities, and pronouns to establish trust and safety and, on the other hand, institutional...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (3): 508–516.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Sahar Sadjadi Abstract A recent spate of legislation such as South Dakota's HB 1057, known as the Vulnerable Child Protection Act, seeks to criminalize medical treatment for gender transition in minors under sixteen. This essay argues that these laws do not safeguard children's health but are part...
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TSQ (2021) 8 (4): 462–480.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Beans Velocci Abstract In the 1950s and early 1960s, Harry Benjamin and his colleague Elmer Belt corresponded at length about which transsexuals they would and would not approve for genital surgery. Benjamin defined transsexuality primarily through a desire for medical transition, but merely being...
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TSQ (2023) 10 (2): 153–159.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of African athletes deemed intersex by sporting and medical authorities, the author demonstrates how current approaches to undermining sex segregation in sports still risk excluding certain athletes—intersex, nonbinary, and non-medically transitioning athletes. Ultimately, the author argues that if the goal...
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TSQ (2014) 1 (3): 368–386.
Published: 01 August 2014
...Seth Palmer Abstract At the turn of the twentieth century, a series of troublesome encounters unfolded between several French colonial medical doctors and gender-variant, male-bodied persons ( sarimbavy in Malagasy). Medico-ethnographic texts were published in academic journals in the French...
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TSQ (2016) 3 (3-4): 357–375.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Alvaro Jarrín Abstract This article employs Bruno Latour's notion of “translation” to examine the ways by which anglophone discourses of transsexuality are deployed in the Brazilian context. The author argues that transsexuality is utilized by the medical class in ways that refuse to medicalize...
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TSQ (2018) 5 (2): 174–189.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Cressida J. Heyes; J. R. Latham Abstract This article examines the various possibilities for making an analogy or disanalogy between cosmetic and trans surgeries, focusing on the suggestion that trans surgeries are medically necessary while cosmetic surgeries are not—a position that has a great...
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TSQ (2018) 5 (2): 207–227.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Riki Lane Abstract Many trans and gender-diverse (TGD) people seek surgeries to align their bodies with their gender identity. This contested field has historically been dominated by mental health professionals, whom TGD people have often seen as “gatekeepers.” Gaining access to medical treatments...
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TSQ (2024) 11 (3): 458–480.
Published: 01 August 2024
... for trans medical care to be in the name of facilitating, rather than stopping, desire. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 Lacanian psychoanalysis surgery embodiment identity In her excoriating letter “Dear Cis Analysts: A Call for Reparations,” McKenzie...
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TSQ (2024) 11 (2): 318–347.
Published: 01 May 2024
... demystified by acknowledging the eradication of Indigenous cross-gender practices, racially imbricated plasticity, and the fusion of state and medical power that determines and shapes gender. Even so, some mystification remains. Gender is a reified social relation whose origins are an attempt to install...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (4): 561–572.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Christopher Joseph Lee Abstract The advancement of medical treatments of HIV has given rise to the term undetectability , which has become synonymous with HIV survival and the promise of an otherwise normal life. This article explores the concept of undetectability as it relates to a theory...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (1): 56–76.
Published: 01 February 2020
... on fetishism and disavowal reveal some of the unconscious roles at play in the repeated medicalization of trans people and the restricting of transition-related resources. Through the donning of a fetish object, disavowal acts to ignore an upsetting reality while the traumatic truth remains intact. An analysis...
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TSQ (2022) 9 (1): 28–43.
Published: 01 February 2022
...Chris Barcelos Abstract Trans-for-trans crowdfunding is a common strategy to raise money both for gender-affirming medical care and for survival expenses related to living in a transphobic world. Although crowdfunding is infrequently successful in funding our survival needs, there have been few...
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TSQ (2022) 9 (2): 160–171.
Published: 01 May 2022
... that can be seen by any individual but a spacing between bodies that is apparent only to the gaze. The essay suggests additionally that intersex studies can collaborate with trans* studies to interrogate medicalization and consider sexual difference as multidimensional rather than binary. References...
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TSQ (2022) 9 (2): 211–221.
Published: 01 May 2022
.... The essay considers how this link consists in opening new epistemological horizons of body that compel us to account for how there exists a knowledge that is not reducible to an objective. To help develop these points, this essay focuses on medical and legal demands to make gender normal. It proceeds...
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