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The recent visibility of transgender lives demonstrates the dawning of a new period in the potential to include transgender topics in sociology courses. The focus on transgender individuals, communities, and inclusive initiatives are gaining momentum on many public and private college and university campuses, awakening old and new curiosities, igniting student activists and advocates everywhere. Such developments provide an important opportunity for instructors who are motivated to create trans-friendly syllabi, courses, and classrooms. In this article, we briefly explore how transgender people have been used to teach sociological concepts and provide strategies to positively integrate transgender communities into the classroom. Ultimately, we intend this article to show new and more sensitive ways to include transgender experiences into a wide range of sociological courses.

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 essay is a set of reflections arising out of prolonged conversations in which we compared notes on our respective experiences as activist (Raina) and ethnographer (Aniruddha) working among, and to different extents belonging to, gender/sexually marginalized communities in eastern India. As we shall argue, the attempted universalization of transgender as a transnational "umbrella term" by the development (nongovernmental) sector, the state, and their funders tends to subsume South Asian discourses and practices of gender/sexual variance as merely "local" expressions of transgender identity, without interrogating the conceptual baggage (such as homo-trans and cis-trans binaries) associated with the transgender category. In the Indian context, this process bolsters the long-standing and continuing (post)colonial construction of hierarchies of scale between transnational, regional, and local levels of discourse and praxis, as evidenced in the relation between the hegemonic anglophone discourse of LGBTIQ identities recognized by the state and the development sector, on one hand, and forms of gender/sexual variance that are positioned as relatively regional or local on the other.

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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