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This article puts the research and writing of UCLA psychology professor Robert J. Stoller in conversation with Daniel Patrick Moynihan's famous essay "The Negro Family: The Case for National Action" to highlight the racial and colonial logics of university-based gender clinics and their significance for transsexual life. The author provides examples of patients of color who made their way to these gender clinics through institutions of psychiatric detention or the criminal justice system. The article attempts to demonstrate three points: (1) gender-clinic patients were not all white and middle class, and many of them did not come to the gender clinics voluntarily; (2) understanding the prolonged, multigenerational temporality of Stoller's theory of transsexual etiology makes clear the connections between transsexual medicine, evolutionary and eugenic theory, and racial science; and (3) Stoller's theory of transsexual etiology emerges alongside essays like Moynihan's reveals the shared genealogy of US sexology and Jim Crow.

Review of Recognizing Transsexuals: Personal, Political and Medicolegal Embodiment by Zowie Davy

Gender as a social class along with its concomitant heteronormative gender coercion seem to be intransigent across time and cultures. But across these cultures we also see a degree of nonconforming behaviour which very often carries significant multi-dimensions of stigma and risk; because the exception proves the rule, an understanding of gender nonconformity sheds light on the normative operation of gender in society. A Feminist Post-transsexual Autoethnography attempts to demythologise trans and gender diversity by conducting an in-depth critical analysis of the life choices of the autoethnographic subject (the author), who was so uncomfortable with their culturally allocated masculinity that they chose to live an apparently normal female life. The research is post-transsexual in that the subject forgoes passing in their affirmed gender to ensure the integrity of the data. A Feminist Post-transsexual Autoethnography may primarily appeal to students and researchers interested in the Sociology of Gender and Sociology of Trans and Gender Diversity, as well as the broader areas of embodiment and power differentials based on gender, class, nationality, location, temporality, sexuality and gender (non)conformity. This insightful volume may also be of interest to those within the fields Health Promotion and Education, Human Rights, Social Justice and Equity or the Social and Cultural Anthropology of Gender.

Approximately half of the states in the United States of America have statutes recognising the reality of transsexualism. US Attorney and transgender legal historian, Katrina Rose, examines one of the earliest of these, revealing that Louisiana legislators in 1968 clearly understood the difference between gay marriages, and heterosexual marriages in which one spouse is transsexual. Rose also suggests that adoption of such a statute should be viewed expansively, with positive ramifications throughout the state' s body of law. Additionally, she offers a scathing critique of the hypocrisy which has long permeated the American gay rights movement's willingness to minimise transgender issues and to avoid treating transsexuals as equals. It is argued that this is no longer mere political polemic as the growing number of sweeping anti-gay constitutional amendments has transformed the history of transgendered people having no voice in the gay-marriage-dominated gay agenda into an essential element of transsexuals' defence where legislative intent of such amendments are an issue in matters involving transsexuals.

Foreword / Jamison Green -- Introduction / Zander Keig and Mitch Kellaway -- I. Manning up: Manning up / C. Michael Woodward -- Always moving forward / Shaun LaDue -- Masculine vulnerabilities, human connections / Loren Cannon -- The stone in my shoe / Exekiel Reis Burgin -- Dimension Z / Rayees Shah -- Transboyhood / C.T. Whitley -- The performance / Daniel Vena -- II. Family man: Family man / Aaron H. Devor -- Sculptor / Willy Wilkinson -- Becoming ABA / Nathan Ezekiel -- Patrick, Pat and Mel / Chad Ratner -- Big shoes to fill / Gus -- Standing on the precipice / Emmett Troxel -- III. Men like me: Men like me / A. Scott Duane -- Not a caricature of male privilege / Trystan Theosophus Cotten -- A stranger handed me a business card / Gavin Wyer -- The glow / Mitch Kellaway -- Fearfully and wonderfully made / H. Adam Ackley -- Hiding behind humor / Dustin Ashizz -- Without Lou, who would I be? / Brice D. Smith -- IV. New territory: New territory / Jack Sito -- Crossing the line / James C.K. -- Privilege: I seem to have it, now what? / Lore M. Dickey -- Transman on the quest for happiness / Ryan K. Sallans -- Why I'm not transgender / Max Wolf Valerio -- Did I ask for this? / Lance Cox -- Just living / Micah -- Afterword / Daisy Hernández -- From the cover: BJ & the Visible Bodies project.

Communication presented to international meetings "The body and law. From the beginning to the end of life" AIECI. Marseille 23-24 September 2005. The metaphor of the renaissance is sometimes used to refer to transsexualisation. Based on this qualification, the article explores the transition and reflects its conceptualisation in our society. The description of the transsexual pathway thus reveals that the claim for a sex registration other than that received at birth is conceived as a significant change of identity, as it is envisaged as the arrival of a new person in the world. That change can, moreover, be achieved only gradually in the context of a socially organised procedure and only if it is used as a therapeutic act complying with sex standards. Wishing and undertaking a change in the gender of the summons is therefore a commitment to seek relief from a state of disorder of identity, recognition of sex norms and reference to them in order to be able to transform one's body; it is a chance to develop in a medical and judicial pathway that makes time a condition for the completion and success of the company. ; The metaphor of rebirth is sometimes used to evoke the transsexual transition. From this qualification, the article investigates the transition and reports on its conceptualization in our society. The description of the transsexual process reveals that the claim of belonging to an ascribed gender other than the one received at birth, is conceived as a consequent identity change: a new being comes into the world. Moreover, this change can be only realized in the framework of a gradually medical and legal protocol which respects carefully gender norms. In consequence to begin a transsexual transition means translating the desire of transformation in terms of identity trouble and asking for its treatment; signifies testifying to recognize the gender norms and refering to them for the body transformation; and also means engaging in a medical and legal journey which considers temporality as the condition ...

The gendered subject in the social world -- Critical framing: literature review -- Autoethnography I : Peter -- Autoethnography II : Ghost -- Autoethnography III : Julie -- My accommodation to the social world -- The subject's explication of the social world -- Remaking the social world -- Synthesis and conclusions -- Index