Making and Treating Trans Problems
The Ontological Politics of Clinical Practices
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4577655 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J R Latham (0000-0002-3705-4577, La Trobe University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 40-61 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Gender and Sexuality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1524-0657 • E-ISSN: 1940-9206 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15240657.2016.1238682 |
| OpenAlex | W2557890873 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 63 |
This essay investigates a divergence between medical and autobiographical accounts of transexuality. By analyzing a letter to the editor in the journal Aesthetic Plastic Surgery that defends trans patients as a “special case” (Selvaggi and Giordano, 2014), I examine how medicine produces trans patients as a separate category of patients. The differential treatment paths of trans and nontrans people who pursue “gender-enhancing” medical interventions demonstrate a double standard that undermines claims to act in the best interest of the patient. Using the evidence of trans men’s accounts of themselves as well as research into the experiences of trans people from across the United Kingdom, Australia, and North America, I critique the medical management of transexuality and call on clinicians to rethink the treatment practices of trans medicine
Differential treatment · Political science · Politics · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Sociology · Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Philosophy · Psychology
LGBTQI+ Bioethics
Queering bioethics
“Gender Ideology” and the Catholic Morality of Gender-Enhancing Treatment and Sex Change
Resisting and Remaking Sex in the Petri Dish, the Clinic, and on the Track
Axiomatic
Queering Vulnerability
Trans Surgeries and Cosmetic Surgeries
Standards of Care
Unmapping social work scholarship about gender self-designation
Experiences of LGBTIQA+ People with Disability in Healthcare and Community Services
Profit and power
The Anxiety to Know
Trans Youth Talk Back
(Re)making sex
Gender Skepticism, Trans Livability, and Feminist Critique
Venus envy
Transmen and FTMs
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Flesh Wounds
The Logic of Care
Making the Body Beautiful
Complexities
“I Don't Think This Is Theoretical; This Is Our Lives”
“Completely out-at-sea” with “two-gender medicine”
The Transgender Studies Reader
Self-Transformations
Undoing Gender
Trans men's sexual narrative-practices
Sexuality and the ethics of body modification
Axiomatic
The Ins and Outs of Transmasculine Embodiment
Cosmetic Surgery And The Televisual Makeover
Who watches the watchmen? A critical perspective on the theorization of trans people and clinicians
The Empire Strikes Back
Construction of male genitalia
From Mental Disorder to Iatrogenic Hypogonadism
The DSM-5 and the Politics of Diagnosing Transpeople
Queer Diagnoses
Meeting the Universe Halfway
Trans
Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender-Nonconforming People, Version 7
Managing uncertainty
The Middle Men
Diagnosing Culture
Transgender Butch
My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix
More than one and less than many
Island Lives
How to Bring Your Kids up Gay
Madness and Civilization
The Body Multiple
Ontological Politics. A Word and Some Questions
Anatomical Authorities
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,67 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |