'From time to time we listen to some curious views on psychoanalysis as an old fashioned and useless discipline, more important from an historical perspective than as a tool for understanding human ...life in its normal and pathological dimensions, as well as an effective therapeutic instrument. This book on transsexualism and transvestism shows exactly how psychoanalysis can reflect, discuss, dialogue and formulate useful insights on one of the most challenging situations that nowadays confront all members of the mental health community. The author assembled this group of distinguished analytic thinkers, all of them with deep experience in the field of human sexuality, and asked them to contribute both to the attempt of understanding these relatively new forms of expression of human sexuality and what kind of interrelations psychoanalysis can offer. My own experience in the supervision of analytic psychotherapy with these patients shows me how simultaneously difficult and fascinating is the journey of each analyst or therapist who attempts to treat those patients.
La patologización de la transexualidad y las retóricas del «cuerpo equivocado» que se asocian a ella, en el marco de un sistema sexo/género dicotómico y jerárquico, condicionan fuertemente la manera ...en la que las personas trans (transexuales, transgénero) se piensan a sí mismas y orientan sus prácticas corporales y sus sexualidades. Sin embargo, pese a que las restricciones normativas del modelo quirúrgico de transexualidad siguen marcando las vidas de muchas personas jóvenes, cuando nos aproximamos a sus narrativas sexoafectivas emergen formas novedosas y emancipadoras de habitar la sexualidad, la corporalidad y el deseo. Vivencias que ponen en cuestión la inevitabilidad de la disforia; que impugnan los patrones hegemónicos de construcción de la (hetero)sexualidad y del género (especialmente de la masculinidad); y que niegan la presunción de indeseabilidad que se atribuye con frecuencia a los cuerpos trans. Los discursos que se analizan en este artículo provienen de entrevistas mantenidas con personas jóvenes autoidentificadas como trans en el marco de una investigación etnográfica realizada en el Estado español.
In recent years, puberty suppression by means of gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogs has become accepted in clinical management of adolescents who have gender dysphoria (GD). The current study is ...the first longer-term longitudinal evaluation of the effectiveness of this approach.
A total of 55 young transgender adults (22 transwomen and 33 transmen) who had received puberty suppression during adolescence were assessed 3 times: before the start of puberty suppression (mean age, 13.6 years), when cross-sex hormones were introduced (mean age, 16.7 years), and at least 1 year after gender reassignment surgery (mean age, 20.7 years). Psychological functioning (GD, body image, global functioning, depression, anxiety, emotional and behavioral problems) and objective (social and educational/professional functioning) and subjective (quality of life, satisfaction with life and happiness) well-being were investigated.
After gender reassignment, in young adulthood, the GD was alleviated and psychological functioning had steadily improved. Well-being was similar to or better than same-age young adults from the general population. Improvements in psychological functioning were positively correlated with postsurgical subjective well-being.
A clinical protocol of a multidisciplinary team with mental health professionals, physicians, and surgeons, including puberty suppression, followed by cross-sex hormones and gender reassignment surgery, provides gender dysphoric youth who seek gender reassignment from early puberty on, the opportunity to develop into well-functioning young adults.
Chicago Whispers de la Croix, St Sukie; D'Emilio, John
2012, 20120101
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Chicago Whispers illuminates a colorful and vibrant record of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people who lived and loved in Chicago from the city’s beginnings in the 1670s as a ...fur-trading post to the end of the 1960s. Journalist St. Sukie de la Croix, drawing on years of archival research and personal interviews, reclaims Chicago’s LGBT past that had been forgotten, suppressed, or overlooked.     Included here are Jane Addams, the pioneer of American social work; blues legend Ma Rainey, who recorded “Sissy Blues” in Chicago in 1926; commercial artist J. C. Leyendecker, who used his lover as the model for “The Arrow Collar Man” advertisements; and celebrated playwright Lorraine Hansberry, author of A Raisin in the Sun . Here, too, are accounts of vice dens during the Civil War and classy gentlemen’s clubs; the wild and gaudy First Ward Ball that was held annually from 1896 to 1908; gender-crossing performers in cabarets and at carnival sideshows; rights activists like Henry Gerber in the 1920s; authors of lesbian pulp novels and publishers of “physique magazines”; and evidence of thousands of nameless queer Chicagoans who worked as artists and musicians, in the factories, offices, and shops, at theaters and in hotels. Chicago Whispers offers a diverse collection of alternately hip and heart-wrenching accounts that crackle with vitality.
Abstract : This article investigates, in Stanley Kenani’s “Love on Trial” (2011) and “In the Best Interests of the Child” (2011 ) ”, Monica Arac De Nyeko’s “Jambula Tree” ( 2013) and Beatrice ...Lamwaka’s “Chief of the Home” (2013), homosexuality, lesbianism and trangenderism as forms of deviations in sexuality and gender to evaluate how africans react to these phenomena to project perspectives of the constructionist feminist literary ideology in Africa. My essay maintains that, the high rate of homophobic sentiments accounts for the many impediments faced by the constructionist feminist idology in Africa and implies that Africa is not a place for LGBTI’s ideologies to prosper for long. If constructionist feminists endowe individuals with freedom to deviate from the roles attached to their sex and gender, the strong attachement of most africans to the “compulsory heterosexuality” and traditional gender seriously put into question the LGBTI’s ideology in Africa. Without pretending to proclaim the failure of the constructionist feminism in Africa, my essay rather lays emphasis on cultural empediments to the emerging gender democracy that contradicts the previously established traditional gender roles to imply that the constructionist feminist ideology is simply unwelcome in Africa. Through the lenses of the constructionist feminism and the reader-oriented theory, the study discovers that gender and sexuality are nowadays not static. Next, there is an emerging gender democracy that departs from the imposed gender dictatorship. Most definitely, it results from the study that the future of the constructionist feminist’s ideology is compromised by african cultural dictates that bring about homophobic sentiments. Textual analysis is the methodology used to achieve the expected results of this article.
This article explores "determining gender," the umbrella term for social practices of placing others in gender categories. We draw on three case studies showcasing moments of conflict over who counts ...as a man and who counts as a woman: public debates over the expansion of transgender employment rights, policies determining eligibility of transgender people for competitive sports, and proposals to remove the genital surgery requirement for a change of sex marker on birth certificates. We show that criteria for determining gender differ across social spaces. Gender-integrated spaces are more likely to use identitybased criteria, while gender-segregated spaces, like the sexual spaces we have previously examined (Schilt and Westbrook 2009), are more likely to use biology-based criteria. In addition, because of beliefs that women are inherently vulnerable and men are dangerous, "men's" and "women's" spaces are not policed equally—making access to women's spaces central to debates over transgender rights.
This article brings together two case studies that examine how nontransgender people, "gender normals," interact with transgender people to highlight the connections between doing gender and ...heteronormativity. By contrasting public and private interactions that range from nonsexual to sexualized to sexual, the authors show how gender and sexuality are inextricably tied together. The authors demonstrate that the criteria for membership in a gender category are significantly different in social versus (hetero)sexual circumstances. While gender is presumed to reflect biological sex in all social interactions, the importance of doing gender in a way that represents the shape of one's genitals is heightened in sexual and sexualized situations. Responses to perceived failures to fulfill gender criteria in sexual and sexualized relationships are themselves gendered; men and women select different targets for and utilize gendered tactics to accomplish the policing of supposedly natural gender boundaries and to repair breaches to heteronormativity.
In this essay, I defend an account of trans oppression and resistance that departs from the prevailing transgender model. While I show why both the “trapped in the wrong body” model and the ...transgender model are problematic, I also illuminate how the former can be seen as a resistant narrative. The new account has two key ideas. First, I draw from María Lugones’s work to defend a model of multiple meanings, arguing that the traditional accounts assume dominant meanings while foreclosing resistant ones. Second, I draw from the recent literature on the transphobic representation of trans people as deceivers to argue that reality enforcement is an important consequence of dominant ways of doing gender. The traditional wrong-body narrative can be seen as resisting reality enforcement.
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