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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."

In 2017, transgender woman Danica Roem stunned political observers in Virginia by unseating a long-time anti-LGBTQ legislator from a conservative district in the Virginia House of Delegates.1 She was the first openly transgender person elected and seated to a state legislature. Delegate Roem's election was historic in LGBTQ political representation, but it also occurred in a period when backlash against the LGBTQ community seemed to be growing (Taylor, Lewis, and Haider-Markel 2018). These two threads led us to ask: How are LGBTQ candidates achieving historic successes even as forces seem mobilized against them?

Out and Running is the first systematic analysis of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) political representation that explores the dynamics of state legislative campaigns and the influence of lesbian and gay legislators in the state policymakin.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Biographical Statements -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1 Understanding What Is Happening to LGBTQIA Public Policy in the New Federal Administration -- Demographics -- 2 Demographic Characteristics of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Adults in the United States: Evidence From the 2015-­2017 Gallup Daily Tracking Survey -- Social, Attitudinal, and Technological Change -- 3 Equality and Inequality, Technological and Social Change, and Politics -- Life in Our Communities -- 4 Bisexuals at the White House: Federal to Local Public Policy Advocacy -- 5 The Current State of Transgender in America -- 6 Transgender in America: Bathroom Policy and Beyond -- 7 Openly Transgender Candidate Perspectives on Gender in Social Policy -- 8 Intersex and Federal Public Policy -- Health and Social Issues -- 9 The Minnesota LGBTQ Standards of Inclusion for Health and Social Services -- 10 Advancing LGBT Health via Local Public Health Surveillance and Policy: Hennepin County SHAPE Project -- 11 Glitter, Smoke, and Mirrors: Tobacco Marketing in LGBTQ Spaces -- 12 Queer and Quitting: Addressing Smoking as an LGBTQ Issue -- 13 Communities at Risk: Substance Use Disorders in LGBTQ Populations -- 14 Hiding the Obvious in America -- Immigration Issues -- 15 Seeking Safe Haven: LGBTQ People and the American Immigration Experience -- Youth -- 16 Inspiring and Nurturing LGBTQI Youth -- 17 LGBTQIA+ Support Systems within Higher Education -- 18 Opportunities for Strengthening the Mentorship of LGBT and Queer Pre­Med Students, Medical Trainees, and Health Care Professionals -- LGBTQIA Adults and Seniors -- 19 LGBT Adult and Senior Homelessness Is Hidden in Plain Sight -- 20 Gay and Gray: Policy in a Rapidly Aging Community -- LGBTQ Criminal Justice Issues -- 21 Hate Crimes and Homicide.

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This article explores how the public understands military service and diversity. Using a conjoint survey experiment, we ask respondents to select between two candidates for promotion. We randomly present respondents' two profiles, which vary the candidates' gender, race, sexual orientation, marital status, number of years served, number of deployments, combat experience, and branch of the military. We find that respondents do not discount candidates based on their branch of service, gender, race, or marital status. However, respondents do weigh the candidates' combat experience, number of years served, and number of deployments favorably. Finally, respondents penalize candidates based on their sexual orientation: Homosexual individuals are less likely to be selected for promotion. Furthermore, respondents especially discounted transgender individuals for promotion. Important differences, we show in this article, also exist between conservative and liberal respondents, as well as between male and female respondents.

Queen for a Day connects the logic of Venezuelan modernity with the production of a national femininity. In this ethnography, Marcia Ochoa considers how femininities are produced, performed, and consumed in the mass-media spectacles of international beauty pageants, on the runways of the Miss Venezuela contest, on the well-traveled Caracas avenue where transgender women (transformistas) project themselves into the urban imaginary, and on the bodies of both transformistas and beauty pageant contestants (misses). Placing transformistas and misses in the same analytic frame enables Ochoa to delv.

Queerness has always been marked by its untimely relation to socially shared temporal phases, whether individual (developmental) or collective (historical). (McCallum and Tuhkanen 6) The 2017 promotional campaign that launched Season Nine of Logo's award-winning reality competition TV series RuPaul's Drag Race (RPDR) spoke directly to anxieties circulating within LGBT communities in the US and beyond as a result of the 2016 election of Donald Trump (LogoTV). More specifically, the marketing strategy asserted the programme's timely relation to an unfolding history that seemed unrelentingly bleak. For, despite candidate Trump's pledges to support the LGBT community, his administration immediately undertook actions that rolled back Obama-era advances. Trump reassigned the senior advisor for LGBT health in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), fired every member of the President's Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, attempted to ban all transgender people from serving in the US military (later limited to a ban on those who have transitioned), and sought to rescind workplace protections for LGBT people that had been recognised under Title VII of the Civil Right Act. As we write this Introduction in late 2018, Trump's administration announced plans to redefine gender as "biologically fixed", which will effectively "define out of existence" 1.4 million transgender Americans in the US (Green, Benner, and Pear). Sensing the growing vulnerability of queer life at the epicentre of this gathering storm, RPDR asserted its importance to American politics and culture. Prior to the airing of the season's first episode in March 2017, TV spots and online ads featured the tagline, "drastic times call for dragtastic measures", with Ru Paul proclaiming "we need America's next drag superstar now more than ever" (@RuPaul; LogoTV).

The rapid adoption of marriage equality legislation for non-heterosexual individuals in Europe is attributed to many factors, including dramatic shifts in public opinion, the work of transnational activists and changing international norms. Usually, these factors must be filtered through the halls of parliaments where most policy change happens. Given the importance of parliamentarians' attitudes, it is surprising that we know so little about how attitudes towards same-sex marriage are distributed across political candidates in Europe and what factors shape them. This article fills that gap by using an underutilised dataset on the political preferences of candidates for parliamentary office. We find that beyond attachment to party families, a candidate's religiosity and practice has a greater effect on a would-be Member of Parliament's attitudes towards same-sex marriage. The findings suggest that the success of parliamentary action on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights depends not on the partisan composition of the legislature, but rather on the representation of secular candidates.

Human rights apply universally, this means that human rights are inherent in every human being, however in the 2019 candidates for civil servants selection procedure there is discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, dan transgender people who are not allowed to take part in the selection because they have a deviant sexual orientation. Therefore, it is necessary to conduct a study to review from the perspective of human rights regarding this issue. The purpose of this study is to find a way out of the problem of discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, dan transgender people. The research method used in this paper is a normative legal research method because of the absence of norms in this problem so that it must be studied with a statutory approach and a conceptual approach. The results of the study from this paper show that the reason for the urgency of the attorney general of the republic of Indonesia in regulating the prohibition for lesbian, gay, bisexual, dan transgender people is because the prosecutor profession requires special skills so that these rules must be enforced However, after being reviewed from the perspective of human rights, the prohibition arrangement clearly violates the provisions of the 1945 Constitution. So from the results of the study, the conclusion that can be drawn to solve this problem is of course the need for the government to make an appropriate legal rule regarding lesbian, gay, bisexual, dan transgender people so that in the future there will be no polemics. Hak Asasi Manusia berlaku Universal, hal ini berarti hak asasi manusia melekat pada diri setiap manusia, namun dalam prosedur persyaratan seleksi calon pegawai negeri sipil tahun 2019 terjadi diskriminasi terhadap kaum lesbian, gay, bisexual, dan transgender yang tidak boleh mengikuti seleksi tersebut karena memiliki orientas seksual menyimpang. Oleh karena itu perlu dilakukan suatu kajian untuk meninjau dari perspektif hak asasi manusia mengenai permasalahan ini. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah mencari jalan keluar dari permasalahan diskriminasi terhadap kaum lesbian, gay, bisexual, dan transgender tersebut. Adapaun metode penelitian yang digunakan dalam penulisan ini adalah metode penelitian hukum normatif karena adanya kekosongan norma dalam permasalahan ini sehingga harus dikaji dengan pendekatan perundang-undangan dan pendekatan konseptual. Hasil studi dari penulisan ini menunjukan adanya alasan urgensi dari kejaksaan agung republik Indonesia dalam mengatur larangan bagi kaum lesbian, gay, bisexual, dan transgender ini adalah karena profesi jaksa memerlukan keahlian yang khusus sehingga aturan tersebut harus diberlakukan, namun setelah ditinjau dari perspektif hak asasi manusai pengaturan pelarangan tersebut jelas telah melanggar ketentuan-ketentuan yang tertuang dalam undang-undang dasar 1945. Maka dari hasil studi tersebut kesimpulan yang dapat diambil untuk menyelesaikan permasalahn ini tentunya adalah perlunya pemerintah membuat sebuah aturan hukum yang tepat mengenai kaum lesbian, gay, bisexual, dan transgender agar kedepannya tidak lagi terjadi polemik.

"This book challenges law's reliance on neurology's brain sex binary. The brain has become the latest candidate in an historical search for a reliable and fixed biological marker of 'true sex' that has permeated every aspect of Western culture, including law. As definitions of the sexed and gendered body have become ever more contentious, the development and dissemination of brain sex theories has come to dominate popular understanding of LGBTI+ identities. But, this book argues, the brain is no more helpful than earlier biological measures in ensuring just outcomes. Examining how law determines and differentiates 'male' and 'female' in two contested areas of sexed identity - through a discussion of Australian cases authorising medical interventions to alter the embodied sex characteristics of transgender minors and intersex minors - the book demonstrates an incoherence in the legal understanding of gender identity development. As the brain too fails as a convincing biological anchor for the binary sex categories of male and female, law must, it is argued, retreat from its aspiration to create, define, and regulate artificially bounded sex categories of male and female. This book will be of great interest to scholars and students in a range of disciplines who are working at the intersection of law, gender and sexuality"--