POLITICAL TRANSEXCLUSION AND TRANSHATE IN SOCIAL NETWORKS

2021

The Journal of Family Strengths, 2017

Whilst trans people are gaining recognition and positive attention in some respects, many continue to experience discrimination and social exclusion in everyday life. This paper will illuminate violence outside the home – in the form of hate crime – and the interplay with transphobia (the irrational dislike of trans people) and cisgenderism (a prejudicial ideology based on notions of gender normativity). To-date, there is a rather limited body of work detailing trans people’s experiences of hate crime, with the tendency to subsume trans people’s narratives under the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) umbrella. This invisibility results in problems with detailing and examining the specificity of trans people’s hate crime experiences. Findings from a qualitative study that explored trans people’s experiences of domestic abuse, using narrative interviewing, will be presented. A total of twenty-four interviews were undertaken with trans people (n = 15) and domestic abuse practitioners (n = 9). Data was examined using a voice-centred relational technique. Whilst trans people were asked about domestic abuse, each participant provided narratives about their experience of abuse in public; with each constituting hate crime. Four narratives have been purposely selected to illuminate the workings of cisgenderism in relation to hate crime. This paper adds new insight and problematizes the entrenched nature of normative and dominant discourses about gender identity and practice.

2016

The transgender community is a small subculture within the LGBTQ community that has endured a lot of discrimination from a predominantly cisgender society. Cisgender is a term used to describe people who identify with the sex they were assigned at birth, and transgender is a term used to describe people who identify with a gender different from the sex they were assigned at birth. This research will examine the history of the oppression that this community has faced with a focus on the current situation and an outlook for the future. Literature on the topic will be reviewed as well as a discussion of current legal changes affecting trans people. The goal of this paper is to bring to light a community that is not well-understood and to expose the oppression that occurs within it. The ambition of this paper is to raise awareness, with the hope of reducing future oppression and discrimination towards trans and gender non-conforming people. Although many of those in the LGBTQ community ...

Rethinking Transphobia in the UK: What's Wrong with Rights?, 2023

I spent a long time thinking about how to approach this paper beginning with the most basic question-how did we get here? Why are we, in the year 2023 having to have a conference addressing the very fact of why a relatively small population are dehumanized on a daily basis by the state, the healthcare system, the education system, the media, the legislative process, religious institutions and ultimately individuals purely for existing?

Politics and Governance

The approval of the law for the real and effective equality of trans people and for the guarantee of the rights of LGTBI people (the Trans Law) has been one of the most controversial legislative actions in recent years; however, there is very little knowledge about the public’s perception of the issue and how they express their opinions in the public sphere. Supporters of the law consider that the free determination of gender is essential to end discrimination against trans people, while critics express hate speech that can be a precursor to violent actions. This work aims to fill a gap, studying the relationship between the perceptions of a controversial and polarizing issue and their public expression through social media. The main objective is to analyze the public’s perception, with special attention to age, gender, and political ideology, and compare it with the hate speech posted on Twitter. The methodology presents a survey of citizens and the use of computational methods to ...

International Journal of Sexual Health, 2009

Violence, victims, and justifications, 2006

The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP) tracks violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people (LGBT) in eleven large metropolitan regions that include approximately 27 percent of the US population. NCAVP has highlighted repeatedly what it calls an "epidemic of hatred" in the acts of violence against the LGBT community. This brief article examines the nature and prevalence of violence against the transgendered community so that progressive planners can gain some understanding of the risks that this urban population faces on a daily basis. Overall, planners need to make public spaces safer for all people, including the LGBT population.

This term paper is meant to demonstrate an empathetic response to a social problem that I have studied in depth. I chose the social problem of transphobia and in this paper have discussed; the history and how this social problem emerged, why it exists, what it is like to experience transphobia (or to be indirectly impacted by it), what can be done along with what services are in place to address this social problem.