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ADVANCES IN TRANS STUDIES

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ADVANCES IN GENDER RESEARCH

Series Editors: Marcia Texler Segal and Vasilikie Demos

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• Miriam Adelman

  Universidade do Paraná

  Paraná, Brazil

• Franca Bimbi

  University of Padua

  Padua, Italy

• Max Greenberg

  Boston University

  USA

• Marla Kohlman

  Kenyon College

  USA

• Chika Shinohara

  Momoyama Gakuin University

  (St Andrew’s University), Japan

• Shaminder Takhar

  London South Bank University

  UK

• Tiffany Taylor

  Kent State University

  USA

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ADVANCES IN GENDER RESEARCH VOLUME 32

ADVANCES IN TRANS STUDIES: MOVING TOWARD GENDER EXPANSION AND TRANS HOPE

EDITED BY

AUSTIN H. JOHNSON

Kenyon College, USA

BAKER A. ROGERS

Georgia Southern University, USA

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TIFFANY TAYLOR

Kent State University, USA

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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Contents

About the Editors

Austin H. Johnson is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Kenyon College (Gambier, OH, USA). Johnson serves as Director of the Southern Equality Research and Policy Center at the Campaign for Southern Equality, and as Senior Fellow at the Center for Applied Transgender Studies. His research focuses primarily on the health and well-being of LGBTQ people in the American South. As a community engaged scholar, he regularly partners with advocacy, direct service, and mutual aid organizations to conduct research aimed at improving the life chances of queer and trans people in underserved areas. In addition to his numerous public research reports on the health and well-being of LGBTQ people, his peer-reviewed scholarship has been published in Sociology of Health and Illness, Qualitative Health Research, Sociology Compass, Sociological Inquiry, International Journal of Transgender Health, Advances in Gender Research, and Gender, Work and Organization.

Baker A. Rogers is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Georgia Southern University (Statesboro, GA, USA). Their research focuses on inequality, specifically examining the intersections of gender, sexuality, and religion in the US South. Their book Conditionally Accepted: Christians’ Perspectives on Sexuality and Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights was released with Rutgers University Press in December 2019, and their book Trans Men in the South: Becoming Men was released with Lexington Books in January 2020. Their new book King of Hearts: Drag Kings in the American South will be released in October 2021 with Rutgers University Press. Their work is also published in Men and Masculinities, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Gender and Society, Qualitative Sociology, Sociological Inquiry, International Journal of Transgender Health, Sexualities, Review of Religious Research, International Journal of Social Research Methodology, and Feminist Teacher.

Tiffany Taylor is a Professor of Sociology at Kent State University at Kent (USA). Her research focuses on inequality and paid and unpaid work. She has co-edited a textbook Creating and Contesting Social Inequalities: Contemporary Readings with Oxford University Press and a volume for the book series Advances in Gender Research on marginalized mothers. In addition to numerous book chapters, she has also authored dozens of articles in journals such as Sex Roles; Ethnic and Racial Studies; Sociological Inquiry; American Sociological Review; Critical Sociology; Social Science Journal; Symbolic Interaction; Sociology Compass; Gender, Work, and Organizations, and Discourse and Society.

About The Contributors

Sameera V. Akella is a third year PhD student in the Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law at the University of Florida, USA. Sameera is currently researching how race, gender identity, and sexuality affect healthcare access and experiences.

Yael Armangau is a PhD student at the LISST – University of Toulouse II, France. His doctoral research is related to “Gender Bifurcations: Support Networks of Trans people”. It aims to analyze transgender pathways with their on- and offline support networks. He develops mixed research methods based on a situated knowledge.

Kai P. Blake-Leibowitz received a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies from Macalester College. Through an intersectional feminist framework, they are interested in gender and sport, outdoor education, and how gender operates in the classroom. They are pursuing a Master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction for Secondary Social Studies.

Emily Fairchild is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at New College of Florida, USA. She is interested in the relationship between ideology and interaction, and has previously written about how conceptions of gender shape interpretations of commitment rituals, self-presentation among collegiate athletes, and inequality in children’s books.

Julien Figeac is a CNRS Permanent Researcher at the University of Toulouse, France. He contributes to the development of methods in the field of digital humanities, including video-ethnography, online ethnography, and statistical analysis of digital data. He has published articles on the uses of social media and online political participation.

Han Koehle is a scholar activist whose work emphasizes the structural and institutional roots of health inequity and builds accountable relationships as a foundation of health justice. They hold a BA in Sociology and a Master of Social Work.

Nik M. Lampe is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at the University of South Carolina, USA. Their research focuses on the health, aging, and healthcare experiences of transgender, non-binary, and intersex populations. They have been published in journals such as Gender and Society and International Journal of Transgender Health, and Symbolic Interaction.

Emily S. Mann is an Associate Professor of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina, USA. Her research focuses on gender, sexualities, reproduction, health, and inequalities. She has published in journals such as Contraception, Gender and Society, and Social Science and Medicine.

Dr Lain A. B. Mathers is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Indiana State University, USA. Zir work interrogates gender, sexualities, and religion in society, with a focus on LGBTQIAP+ populations. Specifically, much of their research is on how bisexual+ and transgender individuals navigate and challenge inequalities in their lives.

Dr. Mathers is one of the founding editors of Write Where It Hurts, an advocacy project supporting trauma informed scholarship.

Alexandra C. H. Nowakowski is an Assistant Professor at Florida State University College of Medicine. They are a medical sociologist, program evaluator, and community advocate centering health equity in aging with chronic disease. They have published several books and edited Health and Aging in the Margins with Rowman & Littlefield.

Dr. Nowakowski is one of the founding editors of Write Where It Hurts, an advocacy project supporting trauma informed scholarship.

Dagmar Oosthoek is a graduate student in the Gender Studies Research programme at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. They have an interdisciplinary background in gender studies, sociology, and anthropology and are specifically interested in trans embodiments, temporalities, surveillance, and decolonial critiques.

Saoirse O’Shea (The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK), a non-binary person, physically “transitioned” and “came out” a number of years ago. Their research interests have focused on the lived experiences and realties of transgender and gender nonconforming people in the UK. They have published in Organization, Management Learning, and Culture and Organization.

C. L. Quinan is an Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at Utrecht University. Their research interests include trans studies, queer theory, and critical security studies, with work on non-binary gender and law appearing in several journals and edited volumes. Their first book is entitled Hybrid Anxieties: Queering the French–Algerian War and its Postcolonial Legacies (2020).

Sarah A. Rogers is an Instructor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of South Carolina. She focuses on gender and victimization, particularly on sexual assault on campus as it relates to prevention programming. Her work also focuses on trans men’s blurred boundaries between victimization and offending, as well as policy recommendations surrounding trans people in the criminal justice system.

William C. Stallings is a graduate of the South Carolina Honors College and an MD candidate at the Medical University of South Carolina. His research interests include gender and sexual minorities, healthcare inequalities, and medicine.

Olga Suhomlinova is an Associate Professor in Management at the University of Leicester School of Business. Her research covers a variety of industries, countries, and topics (e.g., identity, organizational change, and leadership) and has been published in American Sociological Review, Human Relations, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, and Organization Studies. Her current work focuses on the experiences of transgender and non-binary prisoners in England and Wales.

J. E. Sumerau is an Associate Professor and Director of Applied Sociology at the University of Tampa. Her writing and teaching focuses on intersections of sexualities, gender, health, religion, and violence in society, and has been published in numerous academic journals and edited collections.

Dr. Sumerau is one of the founding editors of Write Where It Hurts, an advocacy project supporting trauma informed scholarship.

Lindsay Toman is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the LGBTQ Studies department at Colgate University. She recently earned her doctorate in sociology from Wayne State University. Her research focuses on how transgender identity construction is impacted by cisnormative expectations and medical technologies. Her dissertation, which has been supported by a National Science Foundation Grant, is titled, “Reconnecting Sex to Gender: An Examination of the Medicalization of Transgender Adolescents.”

Bailey Troia is a PhD candidate in the Sociology Department at the University of Virginia. Her current research explores LBGTQ experiences of belonging and exclusion in the contexts of family, the workplace, religious spaces, and local community in the US Midwest and the South.

Elroi J. Windsor is a Professor of Sociology and Department Chair at the University of West Georgia and a co-editor of two other books, Male Femininities (forthcoming) with NYU Press and Sex Matters: The Sexuality and Society Reader with W.W. Norton. Windsor’s research and teaching interests include bodies/embodiment, gender, and sexuality.

Series Editor Preface

We are pleased to include Advances in Trans Studies in our series. Its new paradigm moving from gender deviance to gender difference to gender expansion is a true advance in gender research. In an AGR chapter, Austin H. Johnson (2015) wrote,

as social scientists, we should make a greater effort to address transgender people, experiences, and phenomena in their own right with an analysis that is grounded within transgender communities and developed with a transgender perspective in mind. (p. 37)

With this volume, Baker A. Rogers and Tiffany Taylor along with Johnson have brought us a collection of writings that center the transgender experience and world and counter attempts to mortify, stigmatize and other trans folk. Chapters use a social scientific description based on the collection of empirical data to gain a fuller picture of the lives of trans and queer people. Through systematic research they reveal the daily injustices experienced at the hands of well-meaning and not so well-meaning cisgender people in institutional settings ranging from the family to medical complexes while providing suggestions for ways in which cisgender scholars can partner with trans scholars in revolutionizing what it means to be a human being and in making effective and informed policy recommendations possible. We welcome the new voices included in the volume and the approach, which is intersectional throughout and interrogates cis- and trans-normativity in our thinking and our institutions.

Johnson, A. H. (2015). Beyond inclusion: Thinking toward a transfeminist methodology. In V. Demos & M. T. Segal (Eds.), At the center: Feminism, social science and knowledge (Vol. 20, pp. 21–41). Advances in Gender Research. Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

Vasilikie Demos, University of Minnesota, Morris; and Marcia Texler Segal, Indiana University Southeast