The Sick Trans Person
Negotiations, Healthcare, and the Tension of Demedicalization
1st Edition
Published on 17. September 2024
160 pages
978-1-4473-7113-7 (ISBN)
Description
Healthcare for transgender people is in crisis. Many of the problems stem from bureaucracies within the health system, limiting conceptualizations of sex and gender, and the requirement for a diagnosis of 'gender dysphoria'.
This book presents a unique argument for full demedicalization of transness as a crucial step towards removing existing barriers to good healthcare. Resisting the current norm of separating sex and gender, it also argues for an understanding of them as necessarily interlinked and co-constructed.
By elevating trans voices and experiences, this book offers a new perspective on transness, medicalization and research methodologies to help trans people, practitioners and policy makers better understand the barriers faced by trans people when seeking healthcare.
This book presents a unique argument for full demedicalization of transness as a crucial step towards removing existing barriers to good healthcare. Resisting the current norm of separating sex and gender, it also argues for an understanding of them as necessarily interlinked and co-constructed.
By elevating trans voices and experiences, this book offers a new perspective on transness, medicalization and research methodologies to help trans people, practitioners and policy makers better understand the barriers faced by trans people when seeking healthcare.
Reviews / Votes
"A timely book that documents barriers and challenges in trans healthcare and contemporary community practices in response." Michael Toze, University of Lincoln "This eminently readable book could not possibly be more timely. Against a backdrop of escalating hate, ignorance and pseudoscience, Callahan makes an important case for trans-led approaches to research and demedicalisation."Ruth Pearce, University of Glasgow
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bristol University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Not illustrated
ISBN-13
978-1-4473-7113-7 (9781447371137)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.51952/9781447371137
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Person
Evelyn Callahan is Research Fellow at University College London. Their research interests include trans healthcare, healthcare in resource limited settings and applied qualitative research methods.
Content
Introduction
1. Trans Methodology
2. Models of Sex and Gender
3. Re-understanding Sex and Gender
4. Medicalization
5. Bureaucracy, Time and Space
6. Pedagogy and TransLiteracy
Conclusion
1. Trans Methodology
2. Models of Sex and Gender
3. Re-understanding Sex and Gender
4. Medicalization
5. Bureaucracy, Time and Space
6. Pedagogy and TransLiteracy
Conclusion
