‘A square peg in a round hole’. Transgender and gender diverse youth and schooling in South Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19004497 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D A Francis (0000-0001-6353-4120, Stellenbosch University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, South Africa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 683-698 |
| Publication date | 2023-11-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sexualities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-4607 • E-ISSN: 1461-7382 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/13634607231212850 |
| OpenAlex | W4388339755 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 34 |
There is a continuing thread of research evidence that schools acknowledge just two self-evident genders and that trans and gender diverse (TGD) youth face significant marginalisation and exclusion. Drawing on a qualitative study of educational staff and seven TGD school-attending youth in South Africa, this paper explores two lines of inquiry – how schools as cultural and social spaces produce and resist cisnormativity and how TGD school-attending youth orientate themselves in or out of line with normative power? Shedding light on how orientation marks out boundary lines and practices of differentiation, the analysis highlights how schools produce a field of objects that ensures that schooling is orientated around the cisnormative body. The paper argues that schooling is a space where TGD youth learn their place, which is exclusion and marginalisation. The findings point to the need for urgent school reform, highlighting the need for important intervention paths to address gender diversity and schooling
Normative · Political science · Sociology · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |