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Treating transsexuals in India: History, prerequisites for surgery and legal issues
Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery, 2009 Authors in their clinical practice came across transsexual patients, who were determined to get their gender affirmed by undergoing a change of sex. This motivated the authors to review the literature extensively regarding transsexualism and report their
Richie Gupta, Anil Murarka
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We Walk Among You:Trans Identity Politics Goes to the Movies [PDF]
, 2009 Recent legal and social acknowledgement of (some) trans citizenship claims demonstrates the continuing evolution of trans politics and identity and the relationship between socio-political identities and popular culture.
Cowan, Sharon
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Entre metáforas e epifanias: a (trans)formação de identidades em Sergio Y. vai à América
Journal of Lusophone Studies, 2018 In the present essay, I argue that despite the conservative ideals espoused by the narrator of Alexandre Vidal Porto's Sergio Y. vai à América (2014), it is precisely within these conflictive and contradicting thoughts that one finds a critique of ...
Lidiana de Moraes
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The epistemological construction of transsexuality: the science, nursing and common sense
Escola Anna NeryObjective: To know the common sense of transsexual women in reaction to the transsexual process and to discuss the epistemological construction about the transsexuality and nursing in this process.
Janaina Pinto Janini +3 more
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I AM WHAT I AM: Manga, corpi e identità di genere
Dive-In, 2023 The main objective of this contribution is to analyze works that have dealt with the theme of gender identity – specifically the figure of josō no shōnen/otoko (boys/men in women’s clothes) – in a selection of works created by male manga artists and ...
Paolo La Marca
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Gendering Globalized Flows in Bertrand Bonello’s Tiresia
Amaltea: Revista de Mitocrítica, 2017 Presented as the conciliatory voice of wisdom, Teiresias, the blind Theban seer who had been both man and woman, exemplifies how transcending gender can lead to a questioning of normative, victimizing cultural mandates within the polis.
Christina Dokou
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Trajectories of Development and Socialization of Trans Brazilian Youth Through Self-Portraits
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 The aim of this research was to explore the meanings of childhood memory established by young people who identify themselves as trans. In a chauvinistic country such as Brazil, sexual socialization of non-cisgender youth is beset by unique challenges ...
Elder Cerqueira-Santos +2 more
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The transsexual dilemma: being a transsexual. [PDF]
Journal of Medical Ethics, 1980 With few exceptions, a solution to any problem will bring new difficulties. These may or may not be worse than the original problem, and one must decide, not between problem and answer, but between degrees of difficulty. Is the new situation really going to be better than the last? This is undoubtedly the situation with the transsexual.
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In Spain, under General Franco's regime, homosexuality was regarded as an antisocial and dangerous behaviour. It was thus pursued both by the police and judicial courts. The Law on Vagrants and Crooks (1954) and, subsequently, the Law on Dangerousness and Social Rehabilitation (1970) constituted the legal mechanisms used by the dictatorship to
Jordi Mas Grau, Rafael Cáceres‐Feria
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Easing Transition with Metaphors: A Case of Transsexuality
Asian Studies, 2011 Using Yūji Usui’s novel A Grass-Carp on a Tree (1993) and its film adaptation (1997) by Atsushi Ishikawa as metaphors, this paper traces the transition of Japanese attitudes towards sexuality.
Tamae K. Prindle
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