Derek P Siegel
Biographic Data
| ID | 274690 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Derek P Siegel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Derek P |
| FAMILY NAME | Siegel |
| SIGNATURE | SIEGEL D P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5420-4768 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Mis/recognition of trans motherhood and the reproduction of racial and class inequalities in everyday interactions
Trans people’s experiences vary based not only on legal context but also their everyday interactions with friends, family, and other community members. Current scholarship on “doing transgender” underscores how these everyday interactions reflect and reinforce binary gender norms, providing safety for some and exposing others to violence. To better understand how gender regulation overlaps with racialized and class-based surveillance, I interview…
Trans Women, Uterine Transplants, and “Biological Difference” In the USA: Notes from the Field
Although transgender women have increasingly expressed interest in uterine transplants as a means of pregnancy and gender-affirmation, the 2013 Montreal Code excludes them from consideration due - in part - to their perceived biological difference. Based on data from 54 semi-structured interviews, I examine how the regulation of uterine transplants in the USA reinforces dominant beliefs about sex/gender and the regulation of trans women in other …
Policing Motherhood, Controlling Families: Race, Reproductive Governance, and Trans Women's Parenting Rights
Transgender people face multiple challenges to securing and maintaining parenting rights, yet most studies on trans parenthood focus exclusively on trans masculine people's experiences and feature majority white samples. To address gendered and racialized gaps in knowledge, I conducted 54 semi-structured interviews with trans women in the United States, who parent or wish to parent, across race and class backgrounds. Using the intersectional fram…
The Consequences of Conflating Trans-ness and Vulnerability
Since the 1990s, activists, scholars, and the media have mutually reinforced the idea that trans people face an epidemic of violence. While effective in amplifying visibility, this one-dimensional portrait reduces trans people—particularly trans women of color—to the role of victim, defined only by their vulnerability to violence. In Unlivable Lives: Violence and Identity in Transgender Activism, sociologist Laurel Westbrook explores how we arriv…
Wanting a “Feminist Abortion Experience”: Emotion Work, Collective Identity, and Pro‐Choice Discourse 1
When pro‐choice individuals expect to feel relieved after their abortions, they often express discomfort with ambivalence and try to minimize “negative feelings.” By conducting interviews ( n = 27) with feminists about their recent abortions, I examine what produces this tension and find multiple explanations. In terms of their own interests, respondents fear being (perceived as) “bad feminists” for harboring ambivalence over their abortions, and…
Medicalization and Naturalization: Understanding Abortion as a Naturecultural Phenomenon
This article offers a naturecultural intervention to the abortion literature, which characterizes abortion as a standard procedure, from the perspective of both biomedical and social scientific research. In contrast, by examining interviews with feminists and pro-choice people about their recent abortions (n=27) and my own experiences as an abortion counselor, I find that no singular “abortion” exists; rather, there are many embodied abortions. I…
HIV stigma beliefs in context: Country and regional variation in the effects of instrumental stigma beliefs on protective sexual behaviors in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Southern Africa
Transgender experiences and transphobia in higher education
While categories like “campus climate” highlight variation across institutions, trans people's experiences also vary within an institutional context. By studying trans people's experiences in higher education, however, we can better understand and respond to the differentiated and changing needs of transgender people in other arenas. In this paper, I review key qualitative and quantitative findings along several themes: (a) disclosing trans ident…
Transgender, Transexual, and Gender Variant Individuals
Transgender experiences and transphobia in higher education
While categories like “campus climate” highlight variation across institutions, trans people's experiences also vary within an institutional context. By studying trans people's experiences in higher education, however, we can better understand and respond to the differentiated and changing needs of transgender people in other arenas. In this paper, I review key qualitative and quantitative findings along several themes: (a) disclosing trans ident…
Policing Motherhood, Controlling Families: Race, Reproductive Governance, and Trans Women's Parenting Rights
Transgender people face multiple challenges to securing and maintaining parenting rights, yet most studies on trans parenthood focus exclusively on trans masculine people's experiences and feature majority white samples. To address gendered and racialized gaps in knowledge, I conducted 54 semi-structured interviews with trans women in the United States, who parent or wish to parent, across race and class backgrounds. Using the intersectional fram…
Wanting a “Feminist Abortion Experience”: Emotion Work, Collective Identity, and Pro‐Choice Discourse 1
When pro‐choice individuals expect to feel relieved after their abortions, they often express discomfort with ambivalence and try to minimize “negative feelings.” By conducting interviews ( n = 27) with feminists about their recent abortions, I examine what produces this tension and find multiple explanations. In terms of their own interests, respondents fear being (perceived as) “bad feminists” for harboring ambivalence over their abortions, and…
HIV stigma beliefs in context: Country and regional variation in the effects of instrumental stigma beliefs on protective sexual behaviors in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Southern Africa
Transgender, Transexual, and Gender Variant Individuals
Transgender experiences and transphobia in higher education
While categories like “campus climate” highlight variation across institutions, trans people's experiences also vary within an institutional context. By studying trans people's experiences in higher education, however, we can better understand and respond to the differentiated and changing needs of transgender people in other arenas. In this paper, I review key qualitative and quantitative findings along several themes: (a) disclosing trans ident…
Medicalization and Naturalization: Understanding Abortion as a Naturecultural Phenomenon
This article offers a naturecultural intervention to the abortion literature, which characterizes abortion as a standard procedure, from the perspective of both biomedical and social scientific research. In contrast, by examining interviews with feminists and pro-choice people about their recent abortions (n=27) and my own experiences as an abortion counselor, I find that no singular “abortion” exists; rather, there are many embodied abortions. I…
HIV stigma beliefs in context: Country and regional variation in the effects of instrumental stigma beliefs on protective sexual behaviors in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Southern Africa
Wanting a “Feminist Abortion Experience”: Emotion Work, Collective Identity, and Pro‐Choice Discourse 1
When pro‐choice individuals expect to feel relieved after their abortions, they often express discomfort with ambivalence and try to minimize “negative feelings.” By conducting interviews ( n = 27) with feminists about their recent abortions, I examine what produces this tension and find multiple explanations. In terms of their own interests, respondents fear being (perceived as) “bad feminists” for harboring ambivalence over their abortions, and…
The Consequences of Conflating Trans-ness and Vulnerability
Since the 1990s, activists, scholars, and the media have mutually reinforced the idea that trans people face an epidemic of violence. While effective in amplifying visibility, this one-dimensional portrait reduces trans people—particularly trans women of color—to the role of victim, defined only by their vulnerability to violence. In Unlivable Lives: Violence and Identity in Transgender Activism, sociologist Laurel Westbrook explores how we arriv…
Policing Motherhood, Controlling Families: Race, Reproductive Governance, and Trans Women's Parenting Rights
Transgender people face multiple challenges to securing and maintaining parenting rights, yet most studies on trans parenthood focus exclusively on trans masculine people's experiences and feature majority white samples. To address gendered and racialized gaps in knowledge, I conducted 54 semi-structured interviews with trans women in the United States, who parent or wish to parent, across race and class backgrounds. Using the intersectional fram…
Trans Women, Uterine Transplants, and “Biological Difference” In the USA: Notes from the Field
Although transgender women have increasingly expressed interest in uterine transplants as a means of pregnancy and gender-affirmation, the 2013 Montreal Code excludes them from consideration due - in part - to their perceived biological difference. Based on data from 54 semi-structured interviews, I examine how the regulation of uterine transplants in the USA reinforces dominant beliefs about sex/gender and the regulation of trans women in other …
Mis/recognition of trans motherhood and the reproduction of racial and class inequalities in everyday interactions
Trans people’s experiences vary based not only on legal context but also their everyday interactions with friends, family, and other community members. Current scholarship on “doing transgender” underscores how these everyday interactions reflect and reinforce binary gender norms, providing safety for some and exposing others to violence. To better understand how gender regulation overlaps with racialized and class-based surveillance, I interview…
Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Reproductive Health and Technologies (3 works)