... fields; and some map the productive tensions between trans studies and other interdisciplines. Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 That transphobia exists is uncontroversial. Almost any trans person can attest to the existence of it based on personal experiences or the experiences of...

... is to investigate the meaning and function of transphobia in Jeffreys's text through employing the psychoanalytic method of a symptomatic reading. This psychoanalytic reading enables the authors to pose the following questions: What motivates the fear of transwomen that permeates this radical lesbian...

...Sara Ahmed Abstract This article offers a critique of the claim made by trans-exclusionary radical feminists that transphobia is being misused as a way of silencing or censoring critical feminist speech. The article suggests that transphobia works as a rebuttal system, one that, in demanding trans...

... a set of proliferating dialectics expressed as the rage that comes into being through living the violent effects of transphobia and trans-misogyny and through the practice of transformational love as a struggle for existence. The texts under consideration here work both to spoil feelings of...

...Yana Kirey-Sitnikova Abstract Trans* issues became visible in Russian feminist communities only in 2013. In Russia, transfeminism was not a reaction against the explicit exclusion of trans* people from feminist spaces; on the contrary, transphobia in feminism arose after an attempt to introduce...

..., and enable people to engage and imagine alternatives. A self-fashioned quing MC actively recording since 2006, Sookee's work confronts a number of issues, including sexism, heteronormativity, homo/transphobias, and neofascist/anti-immigrant paroxysms plaguing Germany today. This article provides a...

... history of homophobia and transphobia. Associating to the stall as an emotionally charged space linked to innermost primal phantasies and anxieties may shed light on the ways in which some dilemmas seem to be stalled on a particular object and may allow the exploration of the phantasies that underscore...

...Marco Posadas Abstract The following statement engages with the question, how can psychoanalytic discourse be relevant to transgender studies when it lacks trans representation? A Latinx psychoanalyst discusses his journey with transphobia and institutional psychoanalysis. Copyright © 2017 by...

..., LGBT, gay, or gay and lesbian framework. The fact that the collection is part of an undergraduate and graduate research and teaching center positions it to critically engage with elements of trans positivity, trans tokenization, trans marginalization, and outright transphobia or cis-sexism that appear...

... analysts working with transgender patients. The author concludes that a relational psychoanalytic approach, with a focus on mentalization, can be a compassionate and transformative one for working with many trans patients. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 transgender transphobia...

... because we wished to create our own transfeminism, one that could encompass the reality of the travestis —a category that does not exist in the United States—as we were aware of how the socioeconomic and racial issues that affect travestis intersect with the transphobia that also affects them...

..., discrimination, and even violence are viewed as justifiable in order to protect and preserve this very system that benefits those in power who created it. Use of the term cisgenderism is slowly increasing in the literature (see, e.g., Ansara and Hegarty 2012 ). Historically, the term transphobia has...

... within officialist LGBT spaces, and advanced the view that trans people were mentally healthy. The proliferation of identities under the trans umbrella, however, provoked a political shift. By embracing a politics of self-naming, and by denouncing transphobia particularly as it is institutionalized...

.... The persistence of limited but recurring outbursts of feminist transphobia, however, cannot be explained away simply as a displacement of a more generalized generational antipathy between the second and third waves of feminism. Nor is it useful to dismiss these outbursts as minor atavistic eruptions...

... make excuses for or apologize excessively for misgendering, drawing more attention to and drawing out the uncomfortable interaction ( Nordmarken 2012 ); conversely, they may deny that they have communicated something cis-sexist or transphobic or they may deny that cis-sexism and transphobia exist...

... femmephobia over male effeminacy, which he understands primarily as a gay male gender role. Yet, as expressed quite literally by one of the “douchebags of Grindr” who is “scared about getting old and having to date a young Asian ladyboy” (2), it is actually a form of transphobia that fears the slippage...

... women ( Haneef 2011 : 101). Female-to-male transgenderism is mentioned only in the hadith (sayings and acts ascribed to the prophet Mohammad), which contains several examples of transphobia, such as: “Narrated by Abu Hurairah: The Apostle of Allah cursed the man who dressed like a woman and the woman...

... observation of structural interrelations between dynamics of psychiatrization, discrimination, and transphobia and on an acknowledgment of the negative effects that a psychiatric classification has on the citizenship rights of trans people. The contemporary model of trans health care is criticized for...

... phrased, how are the deaths of marginalized trans persons, especially trans women, they ask, made productive? Lamble, a legal scholar, addresses this in the politicized mourning undertaken on Trans Day of Remembrance (TDOR). Lamble points out that much TDOR rhetoric concentrates on transphobia and...

... while the officer screened it so that they were not able to plant anything in it. As we witnessed the profiling of this person, our group started shouting, “De noite, de dia, contra o racismo, o machismo e a transphobia!” (At day, at night, against racism, machismo, and transphobia!). This scene is...