TY - JOUR
T1 - Waiting to be seen : social perspectives on trans health
AU - Newman, Christy E. x
AU - Smith, Anthony K. J.
AU - Duck-Chong, Elizabeth
AU - Vivienne, Son
AU - Davies, Cristyn
AU - Robinson, Kerry H.
AU - Aggleton, Pete
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Sociologists have always had rich and sometimes controversial material to explore within the ‘contentious epistemological space’ (Brosnan & Kirby, 2016, p. 139) of health and medicine, but the field of trans health has come to represent one of most highly contested of these domains today. When we first came together as a coalition of Australian cis and trans researchers to lead this special issue of Health Sociology Review, we were keenly aware of the tensions between those seeking to promote and to undermine a gender affirming approach to trans health. As we write this introduction, it seems almost an understatement to suggest that these conflicts are intensifying, with ever more distressing and harmful effects for trans people around the world.
AB - Sociologists have always had rich and sometimes controversial material to explore within the ‘contentious epistemological space’ (Brosnan & Kirby, 2016, p. 139) of health and medicine, but the field of trans health has come to represent one of most highly contested of these domains today. When we first came together as a coalition of Australian cis and trans researchers to lead this special issue of Health Sociology Review, we were keenly aware of the tensions between those seeking to promote and to undermine a gender affirming approach to trans health. As we write this introduction, it seems almost an understatement to suggest that these conflicts are intensifying, with ever more distressing and harmful effects for trans people around the world.
UR - https://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:75309
U2 - 10.1080/14461242.2020.1868900
DO - 10.1080/14461242.2020.1868900
M3 - Article
SN - 1446-1242
VL - 30
SP - 1
EP - 8
JO - Health Sociology Review
JF - Health Sociology Review
IS - 1
ER -