scholarly journals Transgender Entrepreneurs

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3S2) ◽  
pp. 193-195
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Career Path ◽  
Economic Empowerment ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender

A transgender is a person whose gender does not match with the gender assigned to that person at birth and includes trans-man or trans-woman, person with intersex variations, and gender- queer. A trans gender’s career path is not simple and straight, they have to make extra efforts to be accepted in the world of 'commoners'. They are subjected to multi-faceted humiliations solely based on their gender identity. Recently empowerment of transgender has been mushrooming in every sphere either be constitutional, parliamentary, political, civil, legal, economic, social or technological facet. This article is based on the collection of Review of Literature with latest notable case studies on the socio-economic empowerment of transgenders. This paper throws light on the positive developments of the transgender to change their societal outlook. The reviews presented reflect a optimistic growth for trans-community in society and is a path breaking efforts to subside their taboo by projecting that transgenders are showing powerful curiosity in entrepreneurial venture.

scholarly journals Queering participatory planning

2021 ◽  
pp. 095624782110193
Author(s):  
Vanesa Castán Broto
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Participatory Planning ◽  
Radical Democracy ◽  
Politics Of Identity ◽  
The World ◽  
Participatory Processes ◽  
And Gender

All over the world, people suffer violence and discrimination because of their sexual orientation and gender identity. Queer theory has linked the politics of identity and sexuality with radical democracy experiments to decolonize development. Queering participatory planning can improve the wellbeing of vulnerable sectors of the population, while also enhancing their political representation and participation. However, to date, there has been limited engagement with the politics of sexuality and identity in participatory planning. This paper identifies three barriers that prevent the integration of queer concerns. First, queer issues are approached as isolated and distinct, separated from general matters for discussion in participatory processes. Second, heteronormative assumptions have shaped two fields that inform participatory planning practices: development studies and urban planning. Third, concrete, practical problems (from safety concerns to developing shared vocabularies) make it difficult to raise questions of identity and sexuality in public discussions. An engagement with queer thought has potential to renew participatory planning.

Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in International Institutions

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Joel Voss
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
International Institutions ◽  
International Institution ◽  
Incremental Change ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Rights Issues

The human rights of LGBTI persons are being contested across the world—both within states and across regions. Despite decades of incremental change, in many states, LGBTI activists are beginning to rapidly advance their normative agendas, particularly in the context of protection against violence and discrimination. However, consistent backlash and opposition to LGBTI advocacy remains. Notwithstanding decades of silence on LGBTI rights, international institutions are also beginning to rapidly include sexual orientation and gender identity in their work as well. Institutions that consist primarily of independent experts and that focus on narrower human rights issues have been especially active in including sexual orientation and gender identity in their work, either formally or informally. At the same time, largely political institutions have generally lagged behind their counterparts. Scholarship on both sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) advocacy and contestation have also lagged behind political and legal developments at international institutions. Although a few works exist, particularly on the UN Human Rights Council, there are numerous other institutions that have been understudied. Further, research on the implementation of international SOGI policies has also been largely absent. SOGI advocacy and contestation continues across nearly every major international institution. Research agendas, either qualitative or quantitative are sorely needed to help better predict and explain the advancement or retreat of SOGI in international institutions and within domestic contexts.

Interpreting Fight Club

2012 ◽  
pp. 67-99
Author(s):  
Mark Ramey
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Media Effects ◽  
Theoretical Interpretation ◽  
Theory Theory ◽  
Moral Panics ◽  
Auteur Theory ◽  
Fight Club ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Film Text

This chapter presents a theoretical interpretation of Fight Club (1999). The interpretation of a film text invariably relies on the application of theory. Theory acts as a set of spectacles: looking at the world through its lenses sharpens focus, magnifies detail, and clarifies understanding. Studying Fight Club has already referenced a number of possible theoretical positions, such as postmodernism and feminism. The chapter explores these and other interpretive positions in depth. These include auteur theory; moral panics and media effects theory; political theory; psychoanalytic theory; gender identity and gender relations; postmodernism; and Nietzsche and nihilism. Gender remains the most critically appraised aspect of Fight Club. The film clearly can be read as an exploration of male identity in crisis. Meanwhile, some feminist critics find the film misogynistic and others see it as a homoerotic text.

Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Schooling

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Lgbt Students ◽  
The World ◽  
Vantage Points

Studies of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth show them to be at risk for some of the greatest difficulties experienced by adolescents: many of those problems have been traced directly to negative experiences in schooling. After more than a decade of research focused on the experiences of LGBT students in schools, a new generation of studies has begun to identify characteristics of schools that are associated with inclusion and safety for LGBT students, including practices and policies that are associated with positive school climate and student well-being. This book brings together contributions from a diverse group of researchers, policy analysts, and education practitioners from around the world to synthesize the implications for practice and policy of contemporary research on sexual orientation, gender identity, and schooling. It draws from multiple disciplinary perspectives and field vantage points and represents perspectives from around the world and from diverse sociocultural contexts. Included are syntheses of key areas of research relevant to SOGI issues in schooling, reviews and examples of new models and approaches for educational practice from around the world, case studies of innovative analyses or reflections on approaches to transformational policy and practice, specific examples of the application of research to change practice and policy, and case studies of efforts that take place at the nexus of research, practice, and policy. The fundamental goal of the book is to advance SOGI social justice through strengthening the relationship between research, practice, and policy to support LGBT students and schools.

scholarly journals Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Discrimination

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holning Lau
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Standard Sequence ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender

AbstractLaws concerning sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) have undergone a sea change. Still, legal protections against SOGI discrimination vary widely around the world. As jurisdictions wrestle with whether and how to protect people against SOGI discrimination, several conceptual questions emerge. This Brill volume reviews and discusses legal developments and scholarly commentary concerning these questions. Specifically, this volume examines the following five questions: (1) Is SOGI discrimination encompassed by existing laws prohibiting discrimination based on sex? (2) Should sexual orientation and gender identity be considered protected categories in and of themselves? (3) Is there a standard sequence of steps for developing legal protections against SOGI discrimination? (4) What are the drawbacks of developing SOGI discrimination protections? (5) To what extent should religious objections justify exemptions from SOGI discrimination bans?

scholarly journals Video Gaming and Gender Dysphoria: Some Case Study Evidence

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Griffiths ◽  
Jon Arcelus ◽  
Walter Pierre Bouman
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Gender Dysphoria ◽  
Video Gaming ◽  
Anecdotal Evidence ◽  
Safe Environment ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Swapping

Video gaming has become an established area of research over the last two decades.  Relatively little research has been carried out in the area of in-game gender swapping.  Clinically, there is anecdotal evidence that people with Gender Dysphoria use video gaming for the purpose of experimenting with and experiencing their gender identity in a safe environment. This paper discusses the various positive and negative functions video gaming may have for people with Gender Dysphoria through a number of case studies.  Recommendations for further research are suggested. 

Analysis of the effects of legal sex markers in detention: Single-sex detention facilities, conversion therapy, and violations of human rights

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cianán Russell
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Conversion Therapy ◽  
Treatment Practice ◽  
Gender Expression ◽  
Single Sex ◽  
Gender Diverse ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Detention Facilities

<p>Conversion therapies have been classified as inhuman treatment or torture on several instances, including by the UN Special rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, and are explicitly prohibited by several professional bodies around the world such as the World Medical Association and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. They have been defined as “any treatment, practice or sustained effort that aims to change, repress and, or eliminate a person’s sexual orientation, gender identity and, or gender expression” (Malta, 2016).</p><p>However, based on its functional definition, the concept of “conversion therapy” can be successfully used as a broader analytical framework to describe carceral practices that regulate gender identity and expression and, in particular, those implemented by sex-segregated detention facilities.</p><p>This paper argues that, coupled with often restrictive and sometimes impossible means for accessing legal gender recognition to change one’s identity documents, single-sex detention acts as a form of conversion therapy for trans and gender diverse people at least in two ways by coercing detainees into adopting gender expression modes that do not align with their gender identity. In that sense, it can be said that sex-segregated detention acts to change the gender identity or expression of gender diverse detainees and, therefore, can amount to inhuman treatment or torture.</p>

scholarly journals Editorial

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-18
Author(s):  
Yasmin Rehman ◽  
Gita Sahgal ◽  
Rashmi Varma ◽  
Nira Yuval-Davis
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Illustrative Case ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Late Capitalism ◽  
Religious Fundamentalist ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender

The theme of this special issue of Feminist Dissent focuses on the ways in which religious fundamentalist movements have become hegemonic in many secular states around the world. This purported paradox of fundamentalist politics gaining power in secular states is all the more challenging to analyse in the context of both the consolidation and re-articulation of neoliberalism as an ideology and framework for organising economy and society in the era of late capitalism and its successive crises. Specifically, we are interested in exploring the ways in which these transformations within state, society and the economy have affected women’s positions and gender relations. The illustrative case studies we examine in this issue are India, Israel and Turkey.

Effects of Gender, Parental Role, and Time on Infant- and Adult-Directed Read and Spontaneous Speech

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (11) ◽  
pp. 4001-4014
Author(s):  
Melanie Weirich ◽  
Adrian Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Parental Involvement ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Spontaneous Speech ◽  
First Year ◽  
Space Size ◽  
Vowel Space ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
Phonetic Features ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Description Task

Purpose The study sets out to investigate inter- and intraspeaker variation in German infant-directed speech (IDS) and considers the potential impact that the factors gender, parental involvement, and speech material (read vs. spontaneous speech) may have. In addition, we analyze data from 3 time points prior to and after the birth of the child to examine potential changes in the features of IDS and, particularly also, of adult-directed speech (ADS). Here, the gender identity of a speaker is considered as an additional factor. Method IDS and ADS data from 34 participants (15 mothers, 19 fathers) is gathered by means of a reading and a picture description task. For IDS, 2 recordings were made when the baby was approximately 6 and 9 months old, respectively. For ADS, an additional recording was made before the baby was born. Phonetic analyses comprise mean fundamental frequency (f0), variation in f0, the 1st 2 formants measured in /i: ɛ a u:/, and the vowel space size. Moreover, social and behavioral data were gathered regarding parental involvement and gender identity. Results German IDS is characterized by an increase in mean f0, a larger variation in f0, vowel- and formant-specific differences, and a larger acoustic vowel space. No effect of gender or parental involvement was found. Also, the phonetic features of IDS were found in both spontaneous and read speech. Regarding ADS, changes in vowel space size in some of the fathers and in mean f0 in mothers were found. Conclusion Phonetic features of German IDS are robust with respect to the factors gender, parental involvement, speech material (read vs. spontaneous speech), and time. Some phonetic features of ADS changed within the child's first year depending on gender and parental involvement/gender identity. Thus, further research on IDS needs to address also potential changes in ADS.

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