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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.

"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"--

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

Transgender people face unique issues in parentage, custody, and divorce cases. Many transgender people are raising children or wish to do so. This article examines the main legal issues facing transgender people who become parents by giving birth or impregnating a partner, through assisted reproduction, through marriage, by raising a child, or through adoption. In the past, some courts viewed a parent's gender transition as a sufficient reason to terminate parental rights. Today, the law has shifted to provide much more security for transgender parents, though significant bias still remains, particularly in divorce and child custody cases. In addition, many states have not yet fully addressed how to determine the legal parentage of children born through assisted reproduction. I analyze the legal landscape for transgender parents and spouses and offer critical suggestions to ensure that transgender people are able to protect their families and their parental rights.

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

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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.

This article proposes the use of transgender theory within medieval studies as both a productive and a politically significant optic. The article employs transgender theory to effect a new reading of the miraculous transformation of the character of Blanchandin/e, in the fourteenth-century French chanson de geste, Tristan de Nanteuil, from female to male. First, the often-overlooked importance of Judith Butler's analysis of sex and gender for the understanding of transgender and non-normatively-gendered identities is addressed. Next, using theoretical work by Deleuze, and by Deleuze and Guattari, the article demonstrates how the rhizomatic and folding structures that a transgender reading of Blanchandin/e's transformation brings to light cohere with the series of rhizomes and folds which structure the genealogical logic of the text as a whole. The family tree of Tristan de Nanteuil is shown to answer to queer, rhizomatic, and folding imperatives. In this way, the article demonstrates that the text's transgender genealogy contradicts the anti-generative model of queerness proposed by queer theory's antisocial turn.

This article proposes the use of transgender theory within medieval studies as both a productive and a politically significant optic. The article employs transgender theory to effect a new reading of the miraculous transformation of the character of Blanchandin/e, in the fourteenth-century French chanson de geste, Tristan de Nanteuil, from female to male. First, the often-overlooked importance of Judith Butler's analysis of sex and gender for the understanding of transgender and non-normatively-gendered identities is addressed. Next, using theoretical work by Deleuze, and by Deleuze and Guattari, the article demonstrates how the rhizomatic and folding structures that a transgender reading of Blanchandin/e's transformation brings to light cohere with the series of rhizomes and folds which structure the genealogical logic of the text as a whole. The family tree of Tristan de Nanteuil is shown to answer to queer, rhizomatic, and folding imperatives. In this way, the article demonstrates that the text's transgender genealogy contradicts the anti-generative model of queerness proposed by queer theory's antisocial turn.

Intro -- CHAPTER 1 -- CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER 5 -- Introduction -- Struggles in the Transgender Community -- The Quest for Transgender Equality -- Estimate of U.S. Transgender Population Doubles to 1.4 Million Adults -- Boy Scouts, Reversing Century-Old Stance, Will Allow Transgender Boys -- She? Ze? They? What's in a Gender Pronoun -- Milestones in the American Transgender Movement -- The Struggle for Fairness for Transgender Workers -- Medicaid Work Requirements Are Yet Another Burden for Trans Workers -- How Should High Schools Define Sexes for Transgender Athletes? -- These Transgender Children Say They're Thriving. They Want to Help Others Do the Same. -- Who Gets to Play the Transgender Part? -- Beyond Caitlyn Jenner Lies a Long Struggle BY Transgender People -- Seventeen Transgender Killings Contrast with Growing Visibility -- Activists Say Police Abuse of Transgender People Persists Despite Reforms -- Poor, Transgender and Dressed for Arrest -- Violence Against Transgender People Is on the Rise, Advocates Say -- Transgender Access Laws in Schools -- As Transgender Students Make Gains, Schools Hesitate at Bathrooms -- Transgender Students and 'Bathroom Laws' in South Dakota and Beyond -- South Dakota Bill on Transgender Students' Bathroom Access Draws Ire -- U.S. Directs Public Schools to Allow Transgender Access to Restrooms -- Transgender Directives for Schools Draw Reaction from Across the Country -- Solace and Fury as Schools React to Transgender Policy -- Transgender Bathroom Debate Turns Personal at a Vermont High School -- How the Push to Advance Bathroom Rights for Transgender Americans Reached the White House -- How High School Students See the Transgender Bathroom Issue -- A Transgender Student Won Her Battle. Now It's War. -- Gavin Grimm -- For Transgender Americans, Legal Battles Over Restrooms

"This is the only book that systematically examines transgender sex work in the United States and globally. Bringing together perspectives from a rich range of disciplines and experiences, it is an invaluable resource on issues related to commercial sex in the transgender community and in the lives of trans sex workers, including mental health, substance use, relationship dynamics, encounters with the criminal justice system, and opportunities and challenges in the realm of public health. The volume covers trans sex workers' interactions with health, social service, and mental-health agencies, featuring more than forty contributors from across the globe. Synthesizing introductions by the editor help organize and put into context a vast and scattered research and empirical literature. The book is essential for researchers, health practitioners, and policy analysts in the areas of sex-work research, HIV/AIDS, and LGBTQ/gender studies."--Provided by publisher

Introduction: toward a trans-of-color critique of medicine -- The racial plasticity of gender and the child -- Before transsexuality: the transgender child from the 1900s to the 1930s -- Sex in crisis: intersex children in the 1950s and the invention of gender -- From Johns Hopkins to the Midwest: transgender childhood in the 1960s -- Transgender boyhood, race, and puberty in the 1970s -- Conclusion: how to bring your kids up trans

In a compilation of personal stories and photographs from twenty different transitioning individuals, Linda DeFruscio illustrates the courage, struggle, and triumph in every person taking the journey to a new, true self. Transgender Profiles is an inspirational text not to be missed by any and all who are curious about this life-changing process.