All 66 entries tagged Trans

LGBT+ History Month talks

I'll be discussing my research at two public events this month.

Thursday 16th February
Condition or Movement? A Century of Trans Identities
University of Warwick

6:30pm, OC0.02, Oculus Building.

I will be giving a talk about the role of medical discourse and social movements in the emergence of 'trans' identities during the 20th and 21st Centuries.

>>>Facebook event page.

Tuesday 21st February
Trans experiences of health care panel
Pembroke College, University of Cambridge

6pm, Nihon Room.

I will be taking part in an LGBT+ History Month panel on the British health care system as , alongside Morgan Potts, Amy Clark, Ray Filar and Tschan Andrews. Our respective talks will be followed by a Q&A session.

>>>Facebook event page.

: 02 Feb 2017 15:48 |  Tags: Queer Research Trans |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

November events

So, I've been a bit quiet on this blog since June. I have been very busy, however - finishing my PhD! I'm very pleased to say that I passed my viva last week.

As a celebration of sorts, I'll be doing a lot of travelling in November to talk about my research. Here are the upcoming events where you can see me speak:

Saturday 12th November
GLADD Annual Conference 2016
University of Westminster

Title: An Adversarial Assessment? Addressing Mistrust Amongst Trans Patients

I will be talking about mistrust in healthcare settings, looking particularly at the context of assessment appointments are Gender Identity Clinics. This event is aimed at LGBT doctors, dentists, and health researchers.

>>> Registration and more information can be found here.

Thursday 24th November
The Practice of Public Sociology
Manchester Digital Laboratory

I will be taking part in a roundtable discussion on the practice of public sociology, with Maddie Breeze, Ipek Demir and Lambros Fatsis. This event is aimed at 'Early Career" Researchers.

>>> Registration and more information can be found here.

26th-27th November
Action For Trans Health Annual Conference
Norfolk Park Heritage Centre, Sheffield

Title: Becoming an 'Expert': The changing landscape of trans health

I will be talking about the role of 'expert' knowledge within trans healthcare and activism over the past decade. This event is being run by and for trans people, but is open to all.

>>> Registration and more information can be found here.

: 28 Oct 2016 15:09 |  Tags: Conference PhD Public Research Sociology Trans |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

WPATH 2016 poster: "A time of anticipation"

Here's the poster I presented at this year's WPATH Symposium:

You can also download a PDF version here.

The magnet is a metaphor for anticipation, which is both a product of and shapes feelings, emotions and experiences of time. This process is mediated by both trans community discourses and medical systems.

It's very important to note that the majority of research participants had good things to say about the health professionals who helped with their transition. However, there is also a high prevelance of transphobia and cisgenderism within medical systems and clinical pathways. Anxiety and mistrust of practitioners within the trans patient population is endemic, and this is compounded by long waiting times.

My wider research looks critically at how discourses of trans health are differently understood within and between community/support spaces, activist groups and the professional sphere; however, the purpose of this particular poster was communicate some of the difficult experiences that current patients have with waiting. It sparked some productive conversations and I hope that further work will follow from this.

Sources:

Transitional Demands (Jess Bradley and Francis Myerscough)

Experiences of people from , and working with, transgender communities within the NHS - summary of findings, 2013/14 (NHS England)

Current Waiting Times & Patient Population for Gender Identity Services in the UK (UK Trans Info)

: 22 Jun 2016 19:39 |  Tags: Research Trans |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Inclusion: Identity and Belonging as an LGBTUA+ Person

I'll be talking about my research at this event next week, hosted by the University of Warwick Staff LGBT+ Network.

INCLUSION

A series of talks exploring LGBTUA+ identity and inclusion in the workplace, family, and society

OPEN TO EVERYONE

Join us for a series of talks, discussion and post-talk refreshments

TALKS FROM
Professor David Smith - University of York
Dr Fiona MacCallum - Department of Psychology, University of Warwick
Ruth Pearce - Department of Sociology, University of Warwick

FOLLOWED BY AN INTERACTIVE PANEL SESSION WITH THE SPEAKERS AND GUEST
John Gore - Film Programmer, Warwick Arts Centre

Monday 23 May, 17:30PM–19:30PM,

R0.03 RAMPHAL BUILDING

BOOK YOUR FREE PLACE HERE

: 17 May 2016 07:40 |  Tags: PhD Research Talk Trans |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Video: (Mis)understanding Trans Health

Filmed at re:publica TEN.

: 12 May 2016 07:55 |  Tags: PhD Research Trans Video |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

"(Mis)understanding transgender health" – talk at re:publica TEN

I'm delighted to have been invited to talk about my research at the re:publica conference on the Internet and Society, which takes place in Berlin from 2-4 May.

I'm currently in the final stages of writing up my thesis, so this is a very exciting time to be talking about my findings. At re:publica, I'll be focusing upon findings related to the 'discursive clashes' that occur when doctors and patients have very different ideas about what it means to be trans.

: 07 Apr 2016 11:00 |  Tags: Research Trans |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Gender recognition: where next?

I recently co-wrote a report for UK Trans Info with CN Lester.

The report summarises the findings of a survey undertaken during November and December 2015 in collaboration with the Non-Binary Inclusion Project. The survey, entitled ‘Replace the GRC – but how?’ was created in response to calls for reform of the Gender Recognition Act 2004, in the wake of a Transgender Equality Inquiry conducted by the UK Parliament’s Women and Equalities Committee.

>>>Read the report at UK Trans Info.

: 09 Jan 2016 00:01 |  Tags: Research Trans |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

CFP: Sexualities Special Issue ‘Trans Genealogies'

Guest editors: L Moon, R Pearce and DL Steinberg

Forthcoming 2016

Deadline for submission of papers: November 30 2015

We would like to invite submissions for a forthcoming Special Issue of Sexualities on the topic of ‘Trans-Genealogies: Gender, Sexuality and the Emergence of Trans'. Below please find email contact information for the Guest Editors, a synopsis of the Special Issue and advice for authors. The Guest Editors will be very happy to discuss your ideas for papers in advance of submission.

Contact:
D.L.Steinberg@warwick.ac.uk
L.Moon@warwick.ac.uk
R.Pearce@warwick.ac.uk

Please submit your papers by November 30 2015 for consideration for the Special Issue

Special Issue Synopsis

This special issue of Sexualities focuses on the emergence of Trans as a growing vernacular of identity, intersubjectivity and feeling on the intersecting terrains of gender and sexuality. The issue draws its impetus from the recent ESRC seminar series: ‘The Emergence of Trans: Retheorising Gender and Sexuality’ (2012-14).

Authors are encouraged to address at least one of the following three questions:

• How does the emergence of Trans challenge, develop or extend understandings of gender and sexuality, reconfigure everyday lives or herald new normativites?
  
• How do Trans lives and discourses articulate with issues of rights, citizenship and (complex and intersectional modes of) discrimination, health and welfare, education and popular commonsense?
  
• What challenges do Trans identities present for clinical and therapeutic practice, for gender and sexuality theory and for everyday articulations of identity and intersubjective and communal connection?

Thematic Focus / Advice for Authors

The Special Issue will pursue and be organised around four key thematic axes:

1. Trans Genealogies: shifting paradigms and practice in clinical and therapeutic contexts
Emergent themes include: narratives of ‘authenticity’ that guide clinical protocols, psychotherapeutic approaches and patient self-identifications; ‘pathways of care’ surrounding interventions and management of Trans bodies; professional discourses (educational, diagnostic) and clinical and practice protocols vis a vis patient or client experience; and ‘alternative’ therapeutic discourses and the Trans self-help context.

2. Trans in everday culture: social networks, social movements, everyday lives and everyday repertoires
The focus here concerns the emergence of Trans social networks, social movements and citizenship struggles, including the impact of digital technology and web based resources on gender and sexuality activism and new identifications. Key themes include: communal, popular and ‘everyday’ repertoires of body, identity, feeling and experience; the impact of digital technology and social networking, and Transformations in everyday vernaculars of gender and sexuality, everyday lives and ‘on the ground’ experiences.

3. Trans in Popular representation
A third thematic focus concerns the spectacular, social semiotic, aesthetic and visual repertoires of Trans. Trans has emerged as a cross-media phenomenon involving traditional and new media from film and television to web-based media to photography to performance art, giving rise to emergent popular and commonsense dimensions of Trans.

4. Trans Epistemologies: retheorising gender and sexuality
The fourth thematic focus concerns the epistemic, intersubjective and affective implications of Trans culture, discourse and practice. Key questions in this context include a) to what degree and in what terms does the emergence of Trans challenge conceptual norms across different cultural sites from professional to popular to everyday practice;and b) what challenges do the epistemic underpinnings of Trans herald for sexuality and gender studies? Does Trans, for example, represent a ‘postcloset’ epistemology? Does it represent an emergent meta-narrative and, in its wake, a Transformed ‘post Kinsey’ understanding of gender, sexuality, bodies and experience?

: 14 Sep 2015 14:17 |  Tags: Research Trans |  Comments (2) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Academic week – Sexual Cultures Conference and Trans* Health Workshop

I've already posted about the Sexual Cultures Conference - this is now just a few days away! I'm greatly looking forward to sitting on one of the conference's keynote panels on the first day with Jay Stewart (Gendered Intelligence), Jade Fernandez (Stonewall) and Kat Gupta.

The overarching theme of the conference (and, by extension, the panel) is "academic meets activism". I'm planning to talk about my move into academia from activism and my involvement in events such as the Emergence of Trans seminar series and Spotlight on: Genderqueer that attempted to speak to both academia and activism. I'll be aiming to highlight some of the limitations and drawbacks of such events as well as their strengths, and think about how future organisers might be able to build upon these lessons.

The whole programme for Sexual Cultures is fascinating, and I'll certainly be dropping by as many sessions as possible. However, I'll also be popping out for a few hours on Thursday to attend a Trans* Health Workshop at King's College London. At this event, I'm planning to speak about some of the early findings from my PhD research, including reflections on the emergence and evolution of 'trans' narratives and their intersection with medical discourse.

: 05 Apr 2015 11:15 |  Tags: PhD Research Trans |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

No, I will not help Sundog make a documentary on trans regret

Recently I received an unsolicited email in my work account from an employee of Sundog Pictures. An excerpt follows:

I’m currently working on an idea alongside Channel 4 following transgender individuals who have come to regret their sex changes and are keen to undergo further treatment / operations to reverse the change. The doc will be insightful and sensitive and will look at the way in which transgender individuals are treated in society and whether the process before someone is permitted an operation is robust enough.

I’m currently looking for real life cases to include in my pitch document and was wondering whether you might be able to recommend people I could speak to, or places I could contact to find individuals who are currently thinking about a reverse sex change. Any help would be really appreciated.

Given the email account used, I feel that I can safely assume that I was contacted because of my academic work, which looks at discourses of trans healthcare provision. Sundog seem to hope that I will (without compensation) draw upon my community contacts and research findings to recommend participants for their television programme.

I couldn’t think of anything more inappropriate.

There’s a lot to be said about research ethics and a duty of care towards participants, but plenty has been written about that elsewhere (the BSA Statement of Ethical Practice offers a decent broad overview). So in this post I focus on the huge problems that come with the proposed topic of the documentary: that of trans “regret”.

>>>Read more at Trans Activist Takes On World.

: 15 Nov 2014 12:26 |  Tags: Trans |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem