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Humanities Natural Sciences Nonfiction Social Sciences

Intersectionality and the invisibility of transgender health in the Philippines

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Transgender (trans) Filipinos are disproportionately vulnerable to health problems because of the inaccessibility of essential healthcare services resulting from the invisibility and exclusion of trans health in Philippine health and related social institutions. Because of the institutional prejudice and discrimination against trans Filipinos in Philippine society, an intersectional approach presents an opportunity to analyze the…

Essay Humanities

Is Transsexualism Chronic

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in 2011, I was diagnosed with chronic transsexualism. The doctor did not actually term it ”chronic transsexualism.” It was a diagnosis of ”transsexualism” with a duration marked as ”chronic.” Such a diagnosis sounded dated even at that time. The fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV), which was current then, used ”gender identity…

Essay Fiction Nonfiction Other Photography

T! Volume 1 Issue 1

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T! is a zine about testosterone – endogenous, exogenous, loved, hated, complicated. Containing personal essay, digital art, fiction, collage, a board game and even a recipe, T! is a collection of thoughts about testosterone that run counter to the dominant bioessentialist narrative. Part fact and part fiction, part comedy and part instruction manual, part love…

History Humanities Nonfiction Social Sciences

Group Therapy with Gender-Dysphoric Patients

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CW: misgendering. This paper by an anti-trans therapist has been uploaded for historical purposes and does not reflect proper and ethical reporting on trans people. A two-year study utilizing expressive dynamic group psychotherapy with gender-dysphoric patients is described. Two distinct stages in the emergent therapeutic relationship are labeled and clinically evaluated. Specific strategies and goals…

History Humanities Nonfiction Social Sciences

Baylan, Asog, Transvestism, and Sodomy: Gender, Sexuality and the Sacred in Early Colonial Philippines

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The importance of women to the spiritual wellbeing of the inhabitants of the Philippine archipelago was a recurrent theme in the reports emanating from the quills of missionaries, explorers and administrators alike from the first European contact with Magellan in 1521 and subsequently during the decades following Legaspi’s arrival in 1565. However the reports contained…