Building a Parent Movement

Trans Kids ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 94-141
Author(s):  
Tey Meadow
Keyword(s):  
Impression Management ◽  
Social Acceptance ◽  
Transgender People ◽  
Transgender Children ◽  
Family Advocacy ◽  
Work Done ◽  
Research Period

This chapter introduces the two organizations responsible for the bulk of family advocacy work done during my research period. Begun by parents of transgender children, these organizations employed vastly different rhetorics in their education efforts and cultivated distinct presentations of self. Despite these often conflicting efforts at impression management, they aligned in certain key ways to create a movement distinct from earlier attempts by adult transgender people to secure social acceptance. Today’s parent movement is fundamentally a cisgender movement, and it suggests that today’s transgender children will look vastly different than those who came before them.

scholarly journals Commentary: The Transgender Child: A Lesson in Acceptance

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-40
Author(s):  
Wren Kauffman
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Minority ◽  
Critical Importance ◽  
Transgender People ◽  
Minority Studies ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
Transgender Children ◽  
The World ◽  
Gender Neutral ◽  
The University

In this interview, 12-year-old Wren Kauffman shares his earliest memories of "not feel[ing] right" in his body and how he conveyed this powerful sentiment to his parents. Wren and his mother Wendy discuss the transgender journey their family has gone on, which initially started by contacting the Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services at the University of Alberta. Wren recounts how he told friends and classmates that he was transgender, talks about the support and openness he has received from teachers, friends, and schools, and of the critical importance of acceptance. Issues such as bullying, gender-neutral spaces, and diversity are also discussed. In addition, Wendy emphasizes the key role education plays in the inclusion of transgender children: "If we can start from a place of education, and explain that there is a really wide kind of variety of different ways that people can be born, that’s going to help society and people in general understand that transgender people are in the world."

scholarly journals Gender Identity and the Issues of Acceptance in Pakistani Community

2020 ◽  
Vol V (I) ◽  
pp. 24-34
Author(s):  
Muhammad Umair Ali
Keyword(s):  
Sampling Method ◽  
Social Acceptance ◽  
Community Support ◽  
Religious Perspective ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
Third Gender ◽  
Identity Paper ◽  
Work Done

Research paper defines the problems, issues and challenges faced by the third gender. Paper also examines the role of social structure towards them and hypothetical constraints builds by the society. Acceptance for third identity is not permitted by social and religious structure, in paper scholar review the literature, different programs which were already done, research theses, books and work done by scholars in the shapes of Articles. For the collection of data Purposive sampling method adopted. Paper focuses on the social acceptance and religious perspective for the construction of third identity. Paper mentions the life of third gender and its limited constraints. It was found that they lead a very difficult life in which family and community support is truly missing.

scholarly journals Dramaturgical Accounts of Transgender Individuals: Impression Management in the Presentation of Self to Specialist Gender Services

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrin Lehmann ◽  
Michael Rosato ◽  
Hugh McKenna ◽  
Gerard Leavey
Keyword(s):  
Impression Management ◽  
Gender Dysphoria ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Presentation Of Self ◽  
Mental Health Needs ◽  
Transgender People ◽  
Adolescents And Adults ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Unmet Mental Health ◽  
Partial Success

AbstractDemand for gender dysphoria (GD) treatment has increased markedly over the past decade. Access to gender-affirming treatments is challenging for most people. For dysphoric individuals, much is at stake. Little is known about the specific needs, challenges, and coping strategies of this hard-to-reach group. We examined the experiences of treatment-seeking adolescents and adults using in-depth unstructured interviews with 26 people attending specialist gender services and 14 transgender people not referred to services. Patients with gender dysphoria distrust clinical services and describe considerable anxiety in sustaining their impression management strategies to obtain treatment. An authentic presentation is regarded by some participants, especially non-binary individuals, as inauthentic and emotionally difficult to maintain. Impression management strategies have partial success in accessing services. The presentation of “idealized” selves may result in unmet mental health needs of patients, and the receipt of interventions incongruent with their authentic selves.

Queernormativity: Norms, values, and practices in social justice fandom

Sexualities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (7) ◽  
pp. 1135-1154
Author(s):  
Dan Michael Fielding
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Transgender People ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Queer People ◽  
Gays And Lesbians ◽  
Work Done

What, if anything, is the queer project? Queer theorists have detailed the ways that gays and lesbians, and transgender people, de-radicalize a potentially queer upsetting of heteronormative systems. Homonormativity and transnormativity have been used to describe the ways that marginalized sexualities and genders are rendered heteronormative. These concepts are important, yet incomplete to capture the experiences of queer people for two reasons. First, they equate ‘normativity’ always with ‘ heteronormativity,’ surrendering the ability to define ‘the normal’ to heteronormative constructions. Second, they render invisible the work done by queer people to redefine the normative in ways that dismantle heteronormativity and affirm queer identities. Through interviews (n = 39), my study works to rectify these twin issues by illuminating the ways queer social actors actively work to redefine what it means to be normative, resulting in queernormativity.

scholarly journals Transgender Children’s Right to Non-discrimination in Schools: The Case of Changing-room Facilities

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-242
Author(s):  
Anniken Sørlie
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Transgender People ◽  
Children’S Perspectives ◽  
Safety Risk ◽  
Gender Binary ◽  
Transgender Children ◽  
The Right

Transgender people’s access to gender-binary facilities has recently become hotly debated. Those opposed argue that giving transgender people access to facilities corresponding to their gender identity creates a safety risk and discomforts others. This article addresses this controversy from the transgender children’s perspectives as reported by their parents. The findings on the arrangement of transgender children’s access to changing rooms in Norwegian schools show to what extent ways of accommodating transgender children’s use of changing and shower facilities at Norwegian schools accord with the right to non-discrimination. It is argued that the gender-binary organisation of facilities and the lack of private curtains in schools create inequality and exclude transgender children.

Attached Advocacy and the Rights of the Trans Child

2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 579-595 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberley Ens Manning
Keyword(s):  
Political Practice ◽  
Parent Advocacy ◽  
Transgender People ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
The Past ◽  
Transgender Children ◽  
In Trans ◽  
Parent Advocate

AbstractOver the past five years transgender children and their parents have emerged as visible actors in public discussions about the rights of transgender people in Canada. In this article, I track the work of emotions in parent advocacy, showing how the enactment of filial (family) ties sheds new light on the gendered relationship between intimacy and political practice. I argue that an affective shift in parenting has opened up space for some cisgender parents to emerge as political actors in trans advocacy work. The affective politics of parent advocacy nonetheless operates through dominant frames of gendered, classed and racialized normativity, limiting both who can become a parent advocate and potentially narrowing the focus of the struggle.

Transgender Students in Elementary Schools: How Supportive Principals Lead

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melinda M. Mangin
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Elementary Principals ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Educational Leaders ◽  
The United States ◽  
Preparation Programs ◽  
Transgender People ◽  
Transgender Children ◽  
Transgender Students ◽  
Child Centered

Purpose: Increased awareness and acceptance of transgender people in the United States is reflected in our nation’s schools. Unfortunately, educational leaders do not typically receive training related to transgender youth and educators express fear about working with transgender students. The purpose of this study is to examine the experiences of school leaders whom parents characterize as supporting their transgender children. Method: Qualitative interviews were conducted with supportive principals from 20 elementary schools across six states. Findings: The findings indicate that supportive principals (a) employed a child-centered approach to decision making, (b) leveraged learning and knowledge to create a positive elementary school experience for transgender children, and (c) characterized their experience as professionally and personally beneficial. Implications: These findings indicate that, in the context of a supportive principal, both the school community and the transgender student can have positive experiences. At the same time, the findings demonstrate that disrupting binary gender norms and shifting the larger school culture to be more gender inclusive is a formidable task. Results from this study may be helpful to elementary principals who hope to create accepting school environments for transgender students or for preparation programs that want to develop supportive principals.

The impact of organizational culture and social desirability on Australian CEO leadership

2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 342-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iain L. Densten ◽  
James C. Sarros
Keyword(s):  
Impression Management ◽  
Transactional Leadership ◽  
Social Desirability ◽  
Social Acceptance ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Ceo Leadership ◽  
Transformational And Transactional Leadership ◽  
The Impact

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine empirically the effect of cultural and social acceptance on CEO leadership.Design/methodology/approachSeveral instruments were used to capture key concepts (i.e. Organisational Culture Profile, Marlowe‐Crowne Social Desirability Scale, Transformational Leadership Inventory, and Leader Reward and Punishment Questionnaire), which were examined using confirmatory factor analysis. Data were collected from 635 Australian CEOs.FindingsThe results of hierarchical multi‐regression analysis clarified the importance of self‐deception and impression management as influential context factors, and how both operate at the pinnacle of organisations. The study also identifies that transformational and transactional leadership behaviours were uniquely influenced by specific cultural dimensions, and suggests that CEOs use combinations of these behaviours to respond to four cultural dimensions (i.e. emphasis on rewards, performance orientation, innovation, and stability) in order to produce competitive advantages.Research limitations/implicationsThe study highlights how CEOs are still vulnerable to conforming to the social norms of their organisation and also how CEOs use a repertoire of leadership behaviours, in response to the importance of different cultural dimensions.Originality/valueThe paper contributes to the leadership literature by directly addressing how context impacts on CEO leadership in three specific areas: social acceptance needs, demographics and culture. Further, the study investigates CEO transformational and transactional leadership behaviours rather than global constructs, and directly addresses the common method variance issue.

scholarly journals Predicting Sense of Coherence and Sense of Identity among Transgender People – Role of Perceived Social Stigma and Social Support

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 156
Author(s):  
Gopica Anand ◽  
Swati Agarwal
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Sense Of Coherence ◽  
Social Acceptance ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Social Stigma ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Stepwise Multiple Regression ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Transgender People ◽  
Sense Of Identity

<div><p><em>Sense of coherence is a global orientation expressing a person's pervasive and enduring feeling of confidence. The term "identity" refers to the capacity for </em><em>self-reflection</em><em> </em><em>and the </em><em>awareness of self</em><em>. Stigma refers to a mark or sign of some sort that is seen as disqualifying individuals from the full social acceptance of the society. Perceived social support refers to an individual’s belief that social support is available, is generally considered positive or negative and provides what is considered needed by that individual. The present study is a quantitative study which adopts a correlational design in which perceived social support &amp; transgender identity stigma are the predictor variables, and sense of coherence and sense of identity among transgender people, are the criterion variables. Purposive and snowball sampling techniques were used to include 120 transgender people aged between 18 – 50 years from in and around the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad. Analysis of results through stepwise multiple regression analyses showed that social support is a predictor of sense of coherence and its  dimensions – manageability and comprehensibility; and sense of identity. Perceived stigma was a significant predictor of comprehensibility while enacted stigma, predicted sense of coherence and comprehensibility. The application value of the study findings are high when it comes to formulating policies to improve the status of transgender community, taking into consideration their plight and the dearth of psychological research with this marginalised group.</em></p></div>

scholarly journals Social Acceptance and Section 377: A Case Study of Transgender People in Jammu City

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-156
Author(s):  
Parul Priya ◽  
Anurag Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Acceptance ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Transgender People ◽  
Supreme Court Of India ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Economic Exclusion ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Indian Penal Code

AbstractThe Supreme Court of India recently decriminalized section 377 of the Indian Penal Code to outlaw the unfair violence and discrimination against transgender people. The paper argues that despite the legal acceptance of Section 377, the discrimination and social exclusion of transgender people continue in the Indian public sphere. The method of Interpretative Phenomenological Approach has been used to analyze the interviews of five transgender people from Jammu city. The findings suggest patterns and relationships within the data which are useful for understanding various ways in which transgender people negotiate and contemplate their lives outside the known social network they resort to. By analyzing the interpretations of selected transgender people, the study reveals that they bear the brunt of social and economic exclusion due to their gender identity on day-to-day basis.

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