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The possibility of individuals procreating post-transition has long stalked debates on transgender rights. In 1972, Sweden became the first European jurisdiction to formally acknowledge preferred gender. Under the original Swedish law, applicants for gender recognition were explicitly required to prove an incapacity to reproduce—either through natural infertility or through a positive act of sterilisation. Across the Council of Europe, 20 countries continue to enforce a sterilisation requirement. When considering reforms to their current gender recognition rules as recently as 2015, the Polish executive and the Finnish legislature both rejected proposals to remove mandatory infertility provisions. This article critiques the rationales for transgender sterilisation in Europe. It places transgender reproduction, and non-traditional procreation, in the wider context of European equality and family law. Adopting a highly inter-disciplinary framework, the article explores legal, social, medical, and moral arguments in favour of sterilisation, and exposes the weak intellectual and evidential basis for the current national laws. The article ultimately proposes a new departure for Europe's attitude towards transgender parenting, and argues that sterilisation should not be a pre-condition for legal recognition.

"The emergence of transgender communities into the public eye over the past few decades has brought some new understanding, but also renewed outbreaks of violent backlash. In Transgender, Translation, Translingual Address Douglas Robinson seeks to understand the "Btranslational" or "Btranslingual" dialogues between cisgendered and transgendered people. Drawing on a wide range of LGBT scholars, philosophers, sociologists, sexologists, and literary voices, Robinson sets up cis-trans dialogues on such issues as "Bbeing born in the wrong body," binary vs. anti-binary sex/gender identities, and the nature of transition and transformation. Prominent voices in the book include Kate Bornstein, C. Jacob Hale, and Sassafras Lowrey. The theory of translation mobilized in the book is not the traditional equivalence-based one, but Callon and Latour's sociology of translation as "Bspeaking for someone else," which grounds the study of translation in social pressures to conform to group norms. In addition, however, Robinson translates a series of passages from Finnish trans novels into English, and explores the "Btranslingual address" that emerges when those English translations are put into dialogue with cis and trans scholars."--Bloomsbury Publishing

"While efforts to include gay and lesbian athletes in competitive sport have received significant attention, it is only recently that we have begun examining the experiences of transgender athletes in competitive sport. This book represents the first comprehensive study of the challenges that transgender athletes face in competitive sport; and the challenges they pose for this sex-segregated institution. Beginning with a discussion of the historical role that sport has played in preserving sex as a binary, the book examines how gender has been policed by policymakers within competitive athletics. It also considers how transgender athletes are treated by a system predicated on separating males from females, consequently forcing transgender athletes to negotiate the system in coercive ways. The book not only exposes our culture's binary thinking in terms of both sex and gender, but also offers a series of thought-provoking and sometimes contradictory recommendations for how to make sport more hospitable, inclusive and equitable. Transgender Athletes in Competitive Sport is important reading for all students and scholars of the sociology of sport with an interest in the relationship between sport and gender, politics, identity and ethics" --

The first book on transgender in a prison setting looks at the entire HM Prison Service regime for such people. Ranging from hard information about rules and regulations, the transition process and how to access it to practical suggestions about clothing, wigs and hairpieces, make-up and coming out, the book also deals with such matters as change of name, gender identity clinics, hormones, medication and use of prison showers and toilets.

Front Cover -- Pubertal Suppression in Transgender Youth -- Pubertal Suppression in Transgender Youth -- Copyright -- List of Contributors -- Contents -- 1 - History of Care of Transgender Youth -- DEDICATION -- REFERENCES -- 2 - Models of Care and Current Guidelines for Care of Transgender Individuals -- GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE -- MULTIDISCIPLINARY CARE -- PRACTICE GUIDELINES -- MENTAL HEALTHCARE -- MEDICAL CARE -- ADJUNCTIVE SERVICES -- BARRIERS TO CARE -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- 3 - Puberty -- PHYSICAL CHANGES ASSOCIATED WITH PUBERTY -- Female Changes -- Male Changes -- Age at Onset -- Growth Spurt -- Changes in Body Composition -- Other Changes of Puberty -- PHYSIOLOGY OF PUBERTY -- Endocrine Changes From Fetal Life to Puberty -- Changes at Birth and the Mini Puberty of INFANCY -- The Juvenile Pause or the Mid-Childhood Nadir of Gonadotropin Secretion -- Peripubertal Gonadotropin Increase -- Sex Steroid Secretion -- Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone Stimulation -- Leptin and Puberty -- Ovulation and Menarche -- Adrenarche -- DELAYED PUBERTY OR ABSENT PUBERTY (SEXUAL INFANTILISM) -- Constitutional Delay in Growth and Adolescence -- Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism -- Central nervous system disorders -- Other acquired central nervous system disorders -- Developmental defects -- Radiation therapy -- Isolated gonadotropin deficiency -- Idiopathic hypopituitary dwarfism (growth hormone deficiency in the absence of defined anatomic or organic defects) -- Miscellaneous disorders -- Chronic disease and malnutrition -- Anorexia nervosa -- Increased physical activity -- Hypothyroidism -- Hypergonadotropic Hypogonadism -- PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY (SEXUAL PRECOCITY) -- Central (Complete or True) Precocious Puberty -- Idiopathic central (complete or true) isosexual precociious puberty -- Genetic causes of central precocious puberty

Introduction -- Coming out (or not) as trans -- Transgender experience in LGBTQIA communities -- Transgender experience in cisgender realities -- Transgender experiences with religion -- Transgender experience with medical science -- Conclusion -- Methodological appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.

AbstractIn this article, the author foregrounds transgender as a useful category of analysis to shed light on the issue of gender variance and its articulations within the encounter between Syrian queer and gender-variant refugees and the humanitarian-asylum complex. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted with Syrian queer and gender-variant refugees in Istanbul in 2014 and 2015, this article contends that transgender as a term first circulates among the queer and gender-variant circles as a thinkable possibility primarily through its function as a humanitarian category, especially as propagated by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). By highlighting this specific encounter, the author attempts to demonstrate, however, that rather than focusing on what the term does to the persons it interpellates, one must map out and document the ways the term is taken up and negotiated by the Syrian queer and gender-variant populations themselves, a method that could help ameliorate the negativity attached to transgender as a Western term and show that other systems of identification and histories of gender variance in the Syrian or Syrian diasporic contexts do not simply disappear or are subsumed by transgender, but are further complicated by it and continue to exist alongside it.

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This essay considers the staging of transsexual fantasy in Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Cemetery of Splendor. Considering pivotal moments of shared intimacy where knowledge of what constitutes relations are confounded, this essay argues that it is the in-distinction of the film's dreaming form that provides the formal texture to read transgender in the film. Moreover, this essay pulls at the sutures that bind dream worlds together, not to reveal its hidden content but to show how dreams touch—and how they might touch the domains of transgender inquiry.