The Sick Trans Person
Negotiations, Healthcare, and the Tension of Demedicalization
By Evelyn Callahan
Published
Sep 17, 2024Page count
192 pagesISBN
978-1447371106Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Policy PressPublished
Sep 17, 2024Page count
192 pagesISBN
978-1447371120Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Policy PressPublished
Sep 17, 2024Page count
192 pagesISBN
978-1447371120Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Policy Press
The Sick Trans Person
Healthcare for transgender people is in crisis. Many of the problems stem from bureaucracies within the health system, limiting conceptualizations of sex and gender, and the requirement for a diagnosis of ‘gender dysphoria’.
This book presents a unique argument for full demedicalization of transness as a crucial step towards removing existing barriers to good healthcare. Resisting the current norm of separating sex and gender, it also argues for an understanding of them as necessarily interlinked and co-constructed.
By elevating trans voices and experiences, this book offers a new perspective on transness, medicalization and research methodologies to help trans people, practitioners and policy makers better understand the barriers faced by trans people when seeking healthcare.
"This eminently readable book could not possibly be more timely. Against a backdrop of escalating hate, ignorance and pseudoscience, Callahan makes an important case for trans-led approaches to research and demedicalisation.”
Ruth Pearce, University of Glasgow
“A timely book that documents barriers and challenges in trans healthcare and contemporary community practices in response.” Michael Toze, University of Lincoln
Evelyn Callahan is a research fellow at University College London. Their research interests include trans healthcare, healthcare in resource limited settings and applied qualitative research methods.
Introduction
1. Trans Methodology
2. Models of Sex and Gender
3. Re-understanding Sex and Gender
4. Medicalization
5. Bureaucracy, Time and Space
6. Pedagogy and TransLiteracy
Conclusion
