Rethinking trans identities within the medical and psychological community
A path towards the depathologization and self-definition of gender identification in Portugal
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3608850 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ana Patrícia Hilário (0000-0001-7396-5127, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 245-256 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Gender Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0958-9236 • E-ISSN: 1465-3869 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09589236.2018.1544066 |
| OpenAlex | W2899801454 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 33 |
This study intends to shed light on the ways in which medical practices surrounding Gender Dysphoria (GD) might enforce or challenge the pathologization of trans identities. Drawing upon a qualitative research approach, in-depth interviews with 12 practitioner specialists in the field of GD in Portugal were carried out by the T team. Our findings suggest that trans identities continue to be pathologized by a group of practitioners who appear to follow an essentialist model of gender. The need for expert knowledge and evaluation to access trans-specific healthcare is illustrative of the gatekeeping practices employed by medicine and the power given to medical discourses over trans identities. Nevertheless, the centrality given to medical and psychological practitioners regarding the definition of who is the authentic trans person is being challenged inside the medical community, as some practitioners are allowing room for trans people to define themselves in their own terms. The findings provide novel insights to the literature in Portugal by showing a more nuanced perspective on the depathologization and self-definition of gender identification within the medical community than that previously described
Ambivalence · Centrality · Essentialism · Gatekeeping · Gender dysphoria · Gender identity · Medicalization · Political science · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Transgender · Computer Science · Feminist Theory and Gender Studies · Gender Studies · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Psychology · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Social Psychology
Psychomedical Interventions with Transgender People in Portugal and Brazil
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(Re) Making gender in the clinical context
Clinicians’ Experiences in Transgender Healthcare
Mapping transgender studies in Portugal
Discrimination experiences of transgender individuals in healthcare
Trans youth in Portugal
Looking at Resilience among Transgender and Gender Diverse People in Portugal
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Social Movements and Sexual Citizenship in Southern Europe
Informed Consent in the Medical Care of Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Patients
Normative Accountability
Who watches the watchmen? A critical perspective on the theorization of trans people and clinicians
Democratising diagnoses? The role of the depathologisation perspective in constructing corporeal trans citizenship
Trans* policy, politics and research
(Dys) Functional Diagnosing
The DSM-5 and the Politics of Diagnosing Transpeople
Using thematic analysis in psychology
Depathologisation of Transgenderism and International Human Rights Law
Negotiating the (bio)medical gaze - Experiences of trans-specific healthcare in Sweden
As experiências dos cuidados de saúde de pessoas transexuais em Portugal
It was like I had to fit into a category
Contestation, instrumental resistance and strategic conformation within the diagnostic process of gender dysphoria in Portugal
Trans-Specific Health Care
Reluctant gatekeepers
Authenticity, intersubjectivity and the ethics of changing sex
Giving Sex
Doing Gender, Determining Gender
Doing, Undoing, or Redoing Gender
For a Sociology of Transsexualism
Uncertain Expertise and the Limitations of Clinical Guidelines in Transgender Healthcare
"Women's Work"? Women Partners of Transgender Men Doing Housework and Emotion Work
Knowledge and Power, Body and Self
Category attribution as a device for diagnosis
A socially situated approach to inform ways to improve health and wellbeing
Empty ethics
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2024 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |