Title |
Understanding Transgender and Medically Assisted Gender Transition: Feminism as a Critical Resource.
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Published in |
The AMA Journal of Ethic, November 2016
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DOI | 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.11.msoc1-1611 |
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Authors |
Jamie Lindemann Nelson |
Abstract |
Feminism has fought the trivialization of women's experiences, championed women's security, and insisted on respect for women's choices. In so doing, feminism has developed important perspectives on the complicated connections between what gender means as it plays itself in people's lives, and the inequalities of power and authority that structure much of human experience. Here, I put a few of these perspectives into contact with an issue where the interactions of gender and power are squarely in play: medicine's role in assisting gender transitioning generally and, specifically, the enduring controversy between medicine and many transgender people about the pathologization of transgender and the role of clinicians as gatekeepers to gender-transition interventions. |
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United States | 1 | 25% |
Unknown | 3 | 75% |
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Members of the public | 3 | 75% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 25% |
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Unknown | 35 | 100% |
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Student > Master | 7 | 20% |
Lecturer | 5 | 14% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 4 | 11% |
Student > Bachelor | 4 | 11% |
Professor | 2 | 6% |
Other | 8 | 23% |
Unknown | 5 | 14% |
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Social Sciences | 6 | 17% |
Medicine and Dentistry | 6 | 17% |
Psychology | 5 | 14% |
Philosophy | 3 | 9% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 2 | 6% |
Other | 5 | 14% |
Unknown | 8 | 23% |