An unprecedented cultural alliance is underway between the anti-trans strand of the radical feminist movement and a new brand of militant right-wing politics that takes issue with the idea that gender is a social and cultural construction. This so-called “anti-gender” movement—which also travels under names such as “gender-critical feminism”—has found immense international power and is…
In the inaugural issue of TSQ, “Postposttransexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies,” Iain Morland (2014) provides a nuanced genealogy of “intersex.” He notes that the term has a range of definitions, even in clinical contexts. Often popularly conflated with ambiguous genitalia—“external sexual anatomy that cannot be easily described as entirely female or male”—an…
A study of the work and career of psychoanalyst and researcher Robert J Stoller, an early and brilliant observer of the dynamics of gender identity (a term he invented) and sexual dynamics and perversion.
Research article from Journal of Homosexuality (2023) Abstract: Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy (GAHT) is a key therapeutic approach which aims to help trans and gender diverse (or simply “trans”) individuals’ transition from their sex-presumed-at-birth to their experienced gender identity. Previous reviews have focused on synthesizing quantitative experiences; however, a qualitative lens is important to understand…
Research article from Journal of Pediatrics (August 2022) Concerns about early childhood social transitions among transgender youth include that these youth may later change their gender identification (ie, retransition), a process that could be distressing. The current study aimed to provide the first estimate of retransitioning and to report the current gender identities of youth…
This work focuses on the homosexual rights movement during the Weimar Republic, which became a vocal part of the burgeoning sexual and reproductive rights movement in Germany. This was not simply the quixotic effort of some small insignificant voice in the wilderness. The homosexual rights movement in the Weimar Republic encompassed a number of groups…
Pope Francis’ pastoral response to trans people represents a compromise between his negative-affective political stance towards transness, and his positive-affective theology of pastoral welcome. By reducing away transness to sickness or sin, he can welcome trans people as individuals in a depoliticized personal sphere apart from the political – at the cost of a reductive…
Blue House Monthly is the monthly trans webzine created, edited, and published by Blue House and is dedicated to trans culture and advocacy. Volume 3 Issue 6 August 1, 2024 CONTENTS Cover Art: “Polarized” Attack Helicopters and Gender: Chelsea Manning’s Readme.txt Visual Art: “Waves” A History of Gender & Sexuality in Harvest Moon Visual Art:…
T! is a zine about testosterone – endogenous, exogenous, loved, hated, complicated. T! Volume 1 Issue 3 features new and returning contributors bringing you poetry, personal essay, block print, a comic, digital and traditional art, and scientific investigation. It is the result of our mission to create something that reflects our real experiences with testosterone…
(mirrored from goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48703727-trans-girl-suicide-museum) Literary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Edited by Clare Kelly. one part ketamine spiral, one part confessional travelogue from the edge of gender, TGSM is a hallucinatory transmission on sex, identity, the internet, and the flickering wish not to exist in a given body at a given point in time. TGSM raises questions…