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AbstractThis section includes eighty-six short original essays commissioned for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Written by emerging academics, community-based writers, and senior scholars, each essay in this special issue, "Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies," revolves around a particular keyword or concept. Some contributions focus on a concept central to transgender studies; others describe a term of art from another discipline or interdisciplinary area and show how it might relate to transgender studies. While far from providing a complete picture of the field, these keywords begin to elucidate a conceptual vocabulary for transgender studies. Some of the submissions offer a deep and resilient resistance to the entire project of mapping the field terminologically; some reveal yet-unrealized critical potentials for the field; some take existing terms from canonical thinkers and develop the significance for transgender studies; some offer overviews of well-known methodologies and demonstrate their applicability within transgender studies; some suggest how transgender issues play out in various fields; and some map the productive tensions between trans studies and other interdisciplines.

AbstractThis article explores the promise of an archipelagic analytic for transgender studies through an interpretive investigation of a beauty pageant in the Philippines. Drawing on transgender studies scholarship and the emergent field of archipelagic studies, this article traces how the pageant underwent a series of archipelagic turns when the slate of candidates shifted from representing nations to representing islands, provinces, and regions across the Philippine archipelago. This turn, the author argues, displaced the centrality of the nation and put forward a translocal and translingual focus that centered islandness and island-island relations as the primary categories of embodiment and performance. In the conclusion, this article argues more broadly that transgender studies, with its discontiguous and decentered character, can also be characterized in archipelagic terms. Taken together, this article adds a new heuristic to transgender studies scholarship, while also including transgender in the growing corpus of work in archipelagic American studies that challenges "continental exceptionalism."

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A larger game is at play with respect to the field of transgender subjectivities in India that goes beyond gender or sexuality, and enters the arena of contested cultures and historical erasures. It can be hypothesized that a contemporary transgender subject in India finds itself caught between the fading voice of precolonial and colonial history on the one hand, and the strong pull of globalization on the other, creating what can perhaps be imagined as a knotted relation of the (transgender) subject with historicity and temporality. A rather confounding gap lies between premodern conceptualizations of gender and sexuality that reside as cultural memory in the subject, carrying its own paleonymic weight, and the increasingly widening signifier transgender in the contemporary. The task of this article is to explore what can be found at this interstice, which promises a clue that is symptomatic of the shifting sands of culture, history, and memory as they play out in India, and how they may point toward a theorization of sexuality that lies away from its histories in the West.

CONTENTS; Prologue vii; Chapter 1. An Introduction to Transgender Terms and Concepts 1; Chapter 2. A Hundred Years of Transgender History 31; Chapter 3. Transgender Liberation 59; Chapter 4. The Difficult Decades 91; Chapter 5. The Current Wave 121; Reader's Guide 155; Further Reading and Resources 158; Sources 165; Index 175; Acknowledgments 185; About the Author 186

Intro -- Introduction -- 1. Religious Beliefs and Transgender Support Can Go Hand-in-Hand William Gallo and Tina Trinh -- 2. Transgender People in Public Restrooms: Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself R. T. Edwins -- 3. Obama's Rebuke of the Bathroom Bill Did Not Go Far Enough  Tom Carter -- 4. The Government and Insurance Companies Should Help Cover Gender Reassignment Surgery  Anna Gorma -- 5. The Sporting World Is Unfair to Transgender Athletes  Katharina Lindner -- 6. Hate Crime Laws Must Go Further to Protect Transgender Individuals  Victoria Law -- 7. Transgender Rights Are Human Rights  Human Rights Campaign -- 8. How About Educating Everyone in School About Transgender Rights?  Brenda Alvarez -- 9. Transgender Employees Must Be Treated with Dignity and Respect  United States Office of Personnel -- 10. Equal Opportunity in the Military Must Include Transgender Servicepeople Ash Carter -- 11. Voter ID Laws Are Unfair to Trans Voters  German Lopez -- 12. The Justice System Is Failing Transgender Individuals  Samantha Pegg -- Appendix -- Organization of contact -- Bibliography -- Index -- Picture credits

"Each title in the Unlocking Current Issues series presents the evolution of a salient current issue, with a focus on providing historical evidence of key moments in the development of the issue through excerpts of primary documents and contextual information, and a clear summary of positions. This volume focuses on transgender life"--

Intro -- INTRODUCTION -- What Does It Mean to Be Transgender?American Psychological Association -- Being Transgender Is Not a Mental DisorderDana Beyer -- There Is No Such Thing as "Transgender"Thaddeus Baklinski -- Transgender People Face Widespread DiscriminationJaime M. Grant et al. -- Transgender People Need More Legal ProtectionMovement Advancement Project et al. -- WGiving Transgender People Special Legal Status Is Bad Public PolicyRyan T. Anderson -- The Transgender Rights Movement Is Fighting for EqualityAssociated Press. -- The Transgender Rights Movement Is Harmful to SocietyJoseph Keith Fournier -- Sex-Reassignment Surgery Is a Medical NecessityLambda Legal -- Sex-Reassignment Surgery Is Unnecessary MutilationJulie Binde -- Transgender Kids: Painful Quest to Be Who They AreMadison Park -- Helping Transgender Children Transition Is Child AbuseSheila Jeffreys -- Schools Should Accommodate Transgender StudentsMichael C. Robin Abcarian -- The Wrong Approach to Transgender StudentsMary Rice Hasson -- Transgender People Should Be Banned from Military ServiceJeff Allen -- Transgender People Should Be Allowed to Serve in the MilitaryMelissa Rayworth -- Insurance and Public Programs Should Not Cover Transgender Health CareAllen B. West -- Organizations to Contact -- Bibliography -- Index

Intro -- Foreword -- 1. What is Gender? -- Sex ≠ Gender -- Close-up: Sex versus Gender -- Gender Roles and Sexuality -- The Myth of the "Real Man" -- Close-up: The Roots of Gender Prejudice -- Gender Roles: Still Evolving -- Close-up: Gender Programming from Birth -- 2. What is Transgender? -- The Wide Range of Gender Variance -- Crossdressers and Drag Performers -- Close-up: Intersex-Born Both Male and Female -- Transitioning from Male to Female or Female to Male -- Transgender ≠ Gay -- 3. Growing Up Transgender -- Hormone Therapy to Redirect Puberty -- Too Young to Be Certain? -- Parental Concern . . . and Confusion -- The Risks of Repressing Gender Identity -- Close-up: Finding a Trans Community -- 4. Living as a Transgender Adult -- The Downside of Acceptance -- Changing the Way We Think About Transgender Individuals -- Close-up: Gender-neutral Pronouns -- Worth the Ongoing Struggle -- Glossary -- Further Resources -- Index.

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This roundtable discussion took place between August 2013 and January 2014 through e-mail. Eventually, two questions were posed, and participants individually e-mailed their responses in. The questions were posed in the hope of making space for a number of scholars, activists, and culture makers to take the pulse of transgender studies' political possibilities and limits and to talk practically about methods for creating change.

The recent visibility of transgender lives demonstrates the dawning of a new period in the potential to include transgender topics in sociology courses. The focus on transgender individuals, communities, and inclusive initiatives are gaining momentum on many public and private college and university campuses, awakening old and new curiosities, igniting student activists and advocates everywhere. Such developments provide an important opportunity for instructors who are motivated to create trans-friendly syllabi, courses, and classrooms. In this article, we briefly explore how transgender people have been used to teach sociological concepts and provide strategies to positively integrate transgender communities into the classroom. Ultimately, we intend this article to show new and more sensitive ways to include transgender experiences into a wide range of sociological courses.