... the process of transition, in which I have identified three phases: self-recognition, passing, and rebirth. These analyses show that transition does not happen at once or suddenly, it rather takes a long time and may continue after sex-change surgery, which is only one part of it. Copyright © 2019 by Duke...

.... If transgender as an identity category emerged from the violent process of separating homosexuality and transsexuality to constitute gayness as normative, Mizrahi emerged from pitting the Jew and the Arab against each other to constitute the “new Jew,” a coherent member of a normative (whitened) nation. Yet...

... to transsexual diagnostic expertise, it was not obvious who should qualify for medical transition, which opened up the possibility for terrible mistakes, which in turn required expert regulation of the process. Assumptions about masculinity and femininity certainly played a role in this process, especially...

... measured by literally adding up the number of people who have successfully managed to navigate the heavily policed processes for gender transition. The only available data refer to court records concerning the number of people who have applied for legal gender recognition. According to this metric, from...

... transitioning processes. It is argued that archiving one's transition works through a kind of performative documentation, partly documenting and partly instantiating the transformation by tracking and tracing the bodily changes. Testosterone figures as the transformative technology, while the upper body becomes...

... at this process parallel to the narrative of how they understood the process of gender transition. This investigation reveals how aspects of their shared aesthetic can be traced to common struggles, shared literary mentors, and other factors such as how these poets have had to invent their own readership contexts...

... out as trans. Because of it, his friends thought it was important that he switch his therapist from a “normal” one like me to one who understood both what it meant to be trans and what it meant to pursue the process of transitioning, and at first Sam agreed with them. It turned out that the trans...

... predilections in order to author and affirm their bodies and selves, in the process generating far-flung communities of support. Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Videography Asuka Kan . 2013 . “ Just Another Transition Video—One-Yr HRT [MTF] .” www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvELuYd1KIA...

... of these classifications as a light-skinned African American who expressed a trans gender and desired medical transition. S/he was read as a variety of genders and races and observed others' attempts to discern her/his “true” identity. From this perspective, Murray scrutinized this quotidian yet fundamental process...

... frame the process of transitioning as a scene of loss? Again, the Transparent scene helpfully alludes to the fact that opting for the semantics of loss in scenes of transitioning is a political decision, even if it supposedly serves to define an interiorized process. This leads to the question of who...

... in various fields; and some map the productive tensions between trans studies and other interdisciplines. Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Trans 1 people have long been defined as pathological. To this day, gender transition processes are classified as mental disorders in diagnostic...

... of white gay men.” Unlike the initial, official iterations of the It Gets Better campaign, these vlogs are geared specifically toward trans folks who are contemplating or in the midst of transition, offering palliative reassurances that once one moves through the process of medical gatekeeping...

... mechanism that is transitive and transphenomenological. Although not using the example of trans* identifications, Abraham and Torok ( 1994 ) describe a process whereby an Other has been incorporated into the self as a phantasy (unconscious fantasy). Through incorporation there is a “ demetaphorization...

... fields; and some map the productive tensions between trans studies and other interdisciplines. Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 In the late twentieth century, transition became the vernacular term of choice in anglophone North America for describing the process or experience...

... not to give further explanations to the daily question “What do you mean, trans?!” and I just answer back, “I've transitioned, I've transitioned,” I imply the usual assumed meaning of “transition from male to female through bodily modification” despite the fact I think it is a continuous process of self...

... ) discusses his personal transition into manhood and the legal, medical, and policy requirements of his biomedical transition process. Morty Diamond's 2004 anthology collects narratives that express nuanced perspectives of gender and juxtapose FtM narratives “alongside the stories of those who also started...

... and psychologist who treats preoperative transsexuals in the process of transitioning, he provides an intimate view into the psychic reality of these people and offers a philosophy of sexuation based on sustaining internal conflict. Rather than pathologizing or normalizing transsexuality, Gozlan situates...

... specifically for persons in the state of childhood is their reversibility. Hormone suppression therapy puts the pubertal process “on hold” while cross-sex hormones begin a partial process of transition that can be halted up to a point without permanent cross-sex effects. In other words, the phenomenon...

... in the work of Wilfred Bion. It then turns to implications for thinking gender, and transgender phenomenon more specifically, concluding with an interview with Joy Ladin, in which gender transition is proposed to facilitate a more “truthful” relation to reality. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press...

...; but the health care and social violence I'd endured in the process of my ceaseless transition, including during my pregnancies, and my body's inability to gestate and birth in the way I had hoped, likewise culminated in an overwhelming rage—a kind of rageful grief I hadn't yet known. Having been told for years...