Same-Gender Biracial Parenthood and the True Cost of Raising a Transgender Teen

An Ethnographic Case Study

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ID14834385
AuthorsMuriel Vernon
Year2018
Volume40
Issue3
Pages23-26
Publication date2018-06-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePracticing Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0888-4552 • E-ISSN: 2994-1628
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.17730/0888-4552.40.3.23
OpenAlexW2811282229
LanguageEN
References cited12

This ethnographic case study illustrates how same-gendered biracial parents raising a transgender teen manage challenges interacting with transgender pediatric and adolescent health care settings. Their experiences show that obtaining puberty blocking hormones in elite medical settings systematically alienates transgender teens and their multi-marginalized families who lack White, heteronormative, and socioeconomic privilege. In this particular case, the dependence on low-cost State-sponsored medical coverage of puberty blocking hormones and the need to live near expensive “diverse” neighborhoods and “tolerant” schools takes away the families' choice of employment, career advancement, and geographic location. The cultural norms based on assumed cultural similarity that inform the current medical model in transgender adolescent health care thus do not take into account the burdens of multi-minority stressors for queer, poor families of color

Ethnography · Political science · Population · Privilege (computing · Queer · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Transgender · Demography · Gender Studies · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Reproductive Health and Technologies

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