Re-Interpreting Gender and Sexuality: Parents of Gender-Nonconforming Children

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 1391-1411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth P. Rahilly
Keyword(s):  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Gender Nonconforming

Governing Thirdness

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Azfar Nisar
Keyword(s):  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Heterogeneous Group ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
The West ◽  
Gender Nonconforming ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Broad View ◽  
Third Gender

Khawaja Sira of Pakistan are a heterogeneous group of marginalized gender nonconforming individuals who defy traditional notions of gender and sexuality. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Lahore, Pakistan, Governing Thirdness provides important insights about the identity, marginalization and governance of the Khawaja Sira as they try to live an unliveable life. Taking a broad view of governance, this book includes a comprehensive analysis of governance of the Khawaja Sira across legal, social and administrative institutions. It also argues that labels like third gender and transgender fails to account for the gender fluid lives and multiple types of individuals who identify as Khawaja Sira, yet these categories, largely imported from the west, are used without much thought to govern this heterogeneous group.

Gender and Sexuality in Taiwan Schools

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lien Fan Shen
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equity ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Education Reforms ◽  
Legislative Process ◽  
Martial Law ◽  
Disciplinary Power ◽  
Gender Nonconforming ◽  
Education Act ◽  
And Gender

Issues of sexuality and gender equity in schools are often entangled with education reforms in Taiwan. Since 1949, when martial law was enacted by the Chinese Nationalist Party, schools had exercised disciplinary power over and exhibited forms of gendered oppression on students’ gender and sexuality. Since martial law was lifted in 1987, Taiwan has undergone several educational reforms. Taiwan’s education system was criticized for its focus on standardization, memorization, and lack of creativity, thus reformers pushed a more holistic approach, and gender equity education was included through the implementation of the Gender Equity Education Act in 2004. In general, gender equity education reforms were catalyzed by a series of social events, including two honor students’ suicide; students’ protesting a hair ban (how it is referred to in Taiwan) and gender-specific uniforms; a gender-nonconforming boy’s accidental death on campus; and anti-LGBTQ cases in a 2018 referendum to eliminate gender equity education in schools. These events exemplified the complexity of discursive practices that encompass struggles of gender and sexual minority individuals in schools, negotiations between the legislative process and public opinion, and media attention on and representation of adolescent gender and sexuality in Taiwan. Taiwan’s movements and progression of gender equity education may be seen as a magnifier through which issues of gender and sexuality are revealed not only in schools but also in society at large.

scholarly journals Bodies in Confinement: Negotiating Queer, Gender Nonconforming, and Transwomen’s Gender and Sexuality behind Bars

Laws ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Nicole A. Francisco
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Medical Condition ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
The Body ◽  
Gender Nonconforming ◽  
Transgender Identity ◽  
Knowledge Support

The criminal punishment system plays a critical role in the production of race, gender, and sexuality in the United States. The regulation of marginalized women’s bodies—transwomen, butches, and lesbians—in confinement reproduces cis-heteronormativity. Echoing the paternalistic claims of protection that have inspired “bathroom bills,” gender-segregated prison facilities have notoriously condemned transwomen prisoners to men’s prisons for the “safety” of women’s prisons, constructing cisgender women as “at risk” of sexual assault and transgender women as “risky”, overlooking the reality of transwomen as the most at risk of experience sexual violence in prisons. Prisons use legal and medical constructions of gender that pathologize transgender identity in order to legitimize health concerns; for example, the mutilation of the body in an effort to remove unwanted genitalia as evidence to warrant a diagnosis of gender identity disorder, or later gender dysphoria. This construction of transgender identity as a medical condition that warrants treatment forces prisoners to pathologize their gender identity in order to access adequate gender-affirming care. By exploring the writings of queer and trans prisoners, we can glean how heteronormativity structures gender and sexuality behind bars and discover how trans prisoners work to assemble knowledge, support, and resources toward survival.

“Those Are Typical Tell-Tale Signs of a Lesbian”: LGBQ Young Peoples’ Perceptions of Parental Messaging Surrounding Gender Non-Conforming Behavior

2021 ◽  
pp. 0192513X2110223
Author(s):  
Michelle L. Estes ◽  
Zachary T. Carlisle ◽  
Rachel M. Schmitz
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Gender Nonconforming ◽  
Gender Behavior ◽  
Queer Youth ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Parental Perspectives ◽  
Familial Context

Socialization surrounding gender and sexuality is prominent within the familial context. Gender and sexuality are frequently linked with the assumption that gender-expansive behavior leads to nonheterosexuality. Research has largely focused on parental perspectives, leaving queer youth experiences largely invisible. Utilizing semistructured interviews with 10 queer young adults, this project contributes to the existing discussions regarding gender and sexuality socialization while growing up. First, participants described parents’ seemingly natural ability to correctly categorize youth’s sexual orientation, which is often linked to gender nonconforming behavior. Participants reinforced essentialized ideas of gender and sexuality through their discussion of engagement in expansive gender behavior. Furthermore, women discussed more freedom to engage in diverse gender behavior, while being expected to conform to traditional gender roles. Through elevating youth’s viewpoints on gender and sexuality family dynamics, these findings can assist service providers and parents in supporting queer youth across their gender and sexual development.

Male Homosexuality and Gender-Nonconforming Expression

2020 ◽  
pp. 132-159
Author(s):  
Kim T. Gallon
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Gender Nonconformity ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Black Press ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
Gender Nonconforming ◽  
Negative Images ◽  
Female Impersonators ◽  
And Gender

Chapter 5 details how Black Press news coverage produced a black public sexual sphere that allowed readers to debate homosexuality and gender-noncomforming expression’s position in early-twentieth-century black communities. As the Black Press worked to transform negative images of blackness, they held homosexual life and gender-nonconformity up as a spectacle that could not seamlessly fit into notions of African American respectability. Nonetheless, regular coverage in the Black Press proved that editors believed that readers enjoyed reading articles and viewing images about female impersonators and gay men. In presenting readers’ responses to this coverage, chapter 5 draws attention to instances of contest and negotiation between diverse African American readers as they struggled to understand the intersections between race, gender, and sexuality.

“So Much for Protect and Serve”: Queer Male Survivors’ Perceptions of Negative Police Experiences

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 228-250
Author(s):  
Doug Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Racial Identity ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Police Response ◽  
Gender Nonconforming ◽  
Male Survivors ◽  
Men Of Color ◽  
Sexually Assaulted ◽  
Gender Presentation ◽  
Depth Interviews

The author employs a critical queer criminology approach to examine the negative reporting experiences of queer men who have been sexually assaulted. Based on qualitative, in-depth interviews, findings reveal that queer men of color’s perceptions differed based on gender expression with those participants who did not describe themselves as feminine or gender-nonconforming expressing surprise that police officers had disparaged their sexuality. Moreover, White participants differed based on age, as younger White queer men expected the police to provide support, whereas their older counterparts were not surprised by the negative police response. These findings have implications for theorizing the intersections of gender and sexuality with race and age, given that results indicate younger White queer men may now increasingly perceive the police as providing protection. In contrast, gender-nonconforming queer men of color described continual profiling experiences based on their gender presentation and their racial identity.

scholarly journals The Gendered and Heterosexist Evolution of the Teacher Exemplar in the United States: Equity Implications for LGBTQ and Gender Nonconforming Teachers

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Kahn ◽  
Paul C. Gorski
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Public School Teachers ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Gender Nonconforming ◽  
Legal Context ◽  
Sexual Orientations ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Gender

<p>Challenges confront lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, and transgender public school teachers or those who are perceived as such or who desire to be open about their sexual orientations or gender identities or expression. Teachers who do not conform to gender and sexual orientation norms currently are and historically have been the subject of persecution, urban myths, and general hysteria—part of bigger efforts to normalize heterosexuality and cisgender-ness through the development of a distinctive “exemplar” related to who teachers should be. We examine the related historical  and legal context of gender and sexuality in schools and then offer suggestions regarding how to redress the lingering impacts of gender- and heteronormativity.</p>

How/Can Psychology Support Low-Income LGBTGNC Liberation?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Billies
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Ethnically Diverse ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Gender Nonconforming ◽  
Building Community ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Right ◽  
Psychology Of Liberation

Findings from a participatory action research project conducted by the Welfare Warriors Research Collaborative (WWRC) are used to explore the questions of whether and what kind of psychology can support racially and ethnically diverse, low-income lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and gender nonconforming (LGBTGNC) liberation. Such issues cannot be understood through lenses of gender and sexuality alone and mainstream psychology—as well as the larger LGBT movement—has tended to ignore the formative ways oppressions are made to work together. Intersectionality and homonationalism are necessary concepts in a psychology of low-income, racially and ethnically diverse LGBTGNC liberation as well as an understanding of “resistance” that broadens to include building community among individuals as well as solidarity and coalition with sister social movements. Freedom of movement and the right to housing are explored as human rights relevant for a low-income LGBTGNC psychology of liberation.

Navigating and resisting the compulsory military service in Iran: embodied experiences of non-heterosexual Iranian men

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Naeimi ◽  
Jón Ingvar Kjaran
Keyword(s):  
Military Service ◽  
Iraq War ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Heterosexual Men ◽  
Gender Nonconforming ◽  
Compulsory Military Service ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Iranian Context

Abstract In the homosocial space of the all male military service, (hetero)masculinity and gender normativity are promoted and bravery and warrior mentality are highly valued. On this basis, policing gender and sexuality is a relevant issue, aiming to reward heteronormativity and hyper masculinity and marginalize non heterosexuality and gender nonconforming performances. In the Iranian context, since the Iran Iraq war (1980–1988), military service has produced a feature of militarized (hetero)masculinities through the cult of martyrdom. It enforces soldiers to stand up against the enemy, be willing to seek martyrdom and sacrifice themselves in order to protect the Islamic Iranian homeland. It is a symbol of entering adulthood and during that time young men are expected to embody the official ideology which revolves around heteronormativity and strict gender norms. In this context, the focus of this paper is the embodied experiences of those young conscripts who do not embody the (hetero)masculine ideal, because they are either non heterosexual or do not fit into the strict regime of gender. Drawing on ethnographic data, and policy documents, this paper shows how the idea of the (hetero)masculine ideal has been translated into practice through the dispositif of the sarbazi and how some young Iranian non heterosexual men try to resist conscription while others try to find ways to carve out a liminal heterotopic space during their military service.

scholarly journals Doctoral Symposium Submission

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
K R Roberto
Keyword(s):  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Controlled Vocabularies ◽  
Gender Nonconforming ◽  
Drag Queen ◽  
Access Points ◽  
Vernacular Language ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
Male Sex

<p>How successful are controlled vocabularies at describing transgender topics? This work explores the use of hierarchical taxonomic structures to describe people's often-fluid gender and sexuality identities, particularly the lack of accurate and appropriate language in most commonly used subject thesauri, and how the lack of this accurate and appropriate language can affect potential users. Specifically, I am referring to individuals who identify as gender-nonconforming. This term, as defined by the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, refers to “people who do not follow other people's ideas or stereotypes about how they should look or act based on the female or male sex they were assigned at birth.” The phrase is frequently used as an umbrella term that encompasses a wide variety of gender identities, including transsexual, drag queen, genderqueer, and butch.</p><p>Many standard vocabularies, including the Library of Congress Subject Headings, have a long and thorny history with regards to prescriptive access points about marginalized groups and sexualities. This work offers a historical overview of the ways in which authorized vocabularies have differed from vernacular language commonly used by community members and LGBTQ scholars to describe their own lives, and explores well- and lesser-known subject vocabularies such as LCSH, MeSH, IHLIA's Homosaurus, and tags assigned by LGBTQ people when describing their personal collections.</p><p> </p>

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