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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."

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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.

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.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I: Overview -- 1 What Does It Mean to Be Transgender? -- 2 A Brief History of Transgender People -- 3 Transitioning -- 4 Physical Health -- 5 Mental Health -- Part II: Controversies and Issues -- 6 Discrimination against Transgender People -- 7 Access to Health and Social Services and Public Facilities -- 8 Transgender Athletes: Who Competes against Whom? -- 9 Normative Gender Dichotomies and Alternatives -- 10 Parenting and Family Issues -- 11 Research Issues -- Part III: Scenarios -- 12 Case Studies -- Glossary -- Timeline -- Sources for Further Information -- Index -- About the Author

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This article explores the performance practices of Sean Dorsey, modern dance's first out transgender choreographer, in order to consider one embodied strategy for staging transgender histories. Utilizing extant LGBTQ archives, and then collecting oral histories himself, Dorsey develops a trans archival practice founded in collaboration, an ethic of care, and grassroots activism that he extends into live performance. Tracing the arc of Dorsey's practice in generating choreography from the archive, the authors ask how embodied artists move with history and consider his dance performance as a site of historical production.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One: The Gender Galaxy: Life Beyond the Binary -- Chapter Two: Bodies Beyond the Binary -- Chapter Three: Who We Are and Whom We Date: Transness, Orientation, and Relationships -- Chapter Four: Gender Hurts: Transphobia, Cissexism, and Trans Resistance -- Chapter Five: Finding Life in the Gender Galaxy: Trans Friendship and Community -- Glossary -- For More Information -- For Further Reading -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author -- Back Cover

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Bridging the Laugage Gap: What It Means (And Doesn't Mean) To Be Transgender -- Chapter Two: Revolution, Evolution: The History of the Transgender Rights Movement -- Chapter Three: Gendered Spaces: Rights For Transgender People In Public Places -- Chapter Four: The Right To Wellness: Health Care and Housing Rights for Transgender People -- Chapter Five: Transcending Ignorance: Antibullying And Anti-Hate Crime Laws -- Glossary -- For More Information -- For Further Reading -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author -- Back Cover

One of the issues that have been considered in the public sphere today is the issue of the transgender phenomenon. Transgender is related to the problem of gender identity. It refers to the condition in which the perpetrators identify their identity and gender differently from their sex biologically. It's caused by dissatisfaction and incompatibility between their body and soul. The term transgender might not be so familiar in Indonesia. However, to indicate that phenomenon, some of the people called them "waria", "priawan" or "tomboy". Generally, their existences were still hard to be accepted because Indonesian people considered this phenomenon as a deviation and it contradicts the moral value and religion in Indonesian society. In the teachings of Islam, the transgender phenomenon has been existed in the early days of the development of Islam, and it has been forbidden strictly. The Islamic view about this issue could be found in the prophet's hadith explicitly. Hence, to understand this phenomenon, we need to study the hadith. The purpose is as a basis for addressing the transgender phenomenon that was prevalent in Indonesia. The understanding implementation of this hadith, in general, is not easy, because Indonesia is not a country that makes Islam as a formal state system. It has its perspective relate to the transgender phenomenon. Therefore, we have to contextualize this hadith understanding according to the Indonesian context, especially in dealing with transgender perpetrators.