Rejecting, reframing, and reintroducing

Trans People's Strategic Engagement With the Medicalisation of Gender Dysphoria

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2249481
AutoresAustin H Johnson (0000-0003-3547-3863, Kenyon College Gambier Ohio USA, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume41
Fascículo3
Páginas517-532
Data de publicação2019-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-9566.12829
PMID30484870
OpenAlexW2903201828
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas52
Referências citadas46

This article uses ethnographic methods to explore how transgender people engage the medicalisation of transgender experience in a U.S. context under the purview of the American Psychiatric Association. Building on sociological literature related to medicalisation, this paper argues that the lived experience of medicalisation is a non-linear, complex process whereby individual engagement with medical authority is both empowering and constraining in the lives of trans people. Inductive qualitative analysis of 158 hours of participant observation and 33 in-depth interviews with members of a transgender community organisation revealed that transgender individuals (i) reject a medical frame for gender dysphoria, (ii) embrace and stress the importance of gender-affirming medical technologies for individual identity development and social interaction and (iii) strategically reintroduce medical logics and embrace medical authority in order to facilitate medical and social recognition, validation and acceptance

Cognitive reframing · Dysphoria · Gender dysphoria · Gender identity · Political science · Psychiatry · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Psychology · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Social Psychology