Advocating for Transgender Immigrants in Detention Centers: Cisnormativity as a Tool for Racialized Social Control

Kurdyla, Victoria

doi:10.1177/00027642221083531

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“…Critical legal scholars have described how solicitation laws and other policies used to justify ‘quality-of-life’ or ‘broken windows’ policing function to intimidate, control, and financially exploit people of color with intersecting marginalized identities, including transgender women of color [ 64 – 67 ]. These include laws criminalizing behaviors deemed signifiers of disorder or immorality under hegemonic White supremacy and cisheteropatriarchy (e.g., loitering, vagrancy), laws criminalizing engagement in survival economies (e.g., sex work), laws governing law enforcement conduct (e.g., stop-and-frisk, racial and ethnic profiling), and laws structuring the legal systems through which those charged with de minimis offenses (i.e., those typically punished via fines and/or short incarceration periods) are sentenced [ 62 , 67 – 71 ]. How the full scope of these laws are enacted and enforced against transgender women of color remains poorly documented and understudied [ 67 ].…”

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Racial/ethnic differences in the association between transgender-related U.S. state policies and self-rated health of transgender women

King,

Gamarel,

Fleischer

et al. 2024

BMC Public Health

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Background Policy protections for transgender adults in the United States are consistently associated with positive health outcomes. However, studies over-represent non-Latinx White transgender people and obscure variation in policies’ intended goals. This study examined racial differences in the relationship between transgender-related policies and transgender women’s self-rated health. Guided by Critical Race Theory, we hypothesized that policies conferring access to resources (e.g., healthcare) would be associated with better self-rated health among all participants while policies signifying equality (e.g., nondiscrimination laws) would be associated with better self-rated health only for White participants. Methods Using cross-sectional data collected between March 2018-December 2020 from 1566 transgender women, we analyzed 7 state-level ‘access policies,’ 5 ‘equality policies,’ and sum indices of each. Participants represented 29 states, and 54.7% were categorized as people of color. We fit a series of multilevel ordinal regression models predicting self-rated health by each policy. Multivariate models were adjusted for relevant covariates at the individual- and state-level. We then tested moderation by race/ethnicity using interaction terms and generated stratified predicted probability plots. Results In bivariate models, 4 access policies, 2 equality policies, and both indices were associated with better self-rated health, but associations did not persist in adjusted models. Results from the multivariable models including interaction terms indicated that policies concerning private insurance coverage of gender-affirming care, private insurance nondiscrimination, credit nondiscrimination, and both indices were statistically significantly associated with better self-rated health for White participants and worse self-rated health for participants of color. Conclusions The policies included in this analysis do not mitigate racism’s effects on access to resources, indicating they may be less impactful for transgender women of color than White transgender women. Future research and policy advocacy efforts promoting transgender women’s health must center racial equity as well as transgender people of color’s priorities.

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Racial/ethnic differences in the association between transgender-related U.S. state policies and self-rated health of transgender women

King,

Gamarel,

Fleischer

et al. 2024

BMC Public Health

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“…Victoria Kurdyla’s (2022) article, “Advocating for Transgender Immigrants in Detention Centers: Cisnormativity as a Tool for Racialized Social Control,” advances a potential response. Kurdyla compared the framing strategies of two legal advocacy groups around the issue of transgender migrants in detention.…”

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Migration and Racialization Part II: The Light and Shadow of Inclusion

Liao

Ebert

Park

2022

American Behavioral Scientist

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The five articles in this second of a two-part special issue on racialization and migration 1 discuss how racialization is not exclusively linked to the exclusion of migrants, at least not explicitly so. They challenge "crimmigration," which sits at the center of many pieces in the first part, as the core of migrant racialization in two ways. First, they speak to how organizations or contexts seemingly welcoming to migrants can (often unintentionally) reify the same racializing logics of the xenophobic social or legal regime that exclude migrants as disposable and exploitable. Or, more precisely, they demonstrate how the "inclusion" and "exclusion" of migrants are not contradictory or even in tension with each other but instead mutually constructive (De Genova, 2013). Second, they raise questions about what racialization is/does from the perspective of the migrants and consider migrants as not only the objects but also subjects of racialization. Both of these perspectives add nuance to the race and racialization scholarship by illustrating that racialization is not a status of being but a process of becoming and a process full of contention and inconsistency.This collection of articles empirically attests to the elasticity of hegemony and the complex struggle for a just or radical future. In "Building and Wedging Strategic Alliances: Racial Framing Contests in the Immigrant Rights and Nativist Counter-Movements," Hajar Yazdiha (2022) establishes the pivotal role of racial meaning in

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Breaking the stigma: the joint effort of the government, print media, and citizens toward transgender education equality (2018–2022)

Rehman,

Huang,

Zhang

et al. 2024

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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The issue of transgender education and equality has long been neglected in Pakistan, leading to a lack of awareness and acceptance of the transgender community. The present study focuses on the joint effort of the government, print media, and citizens toward breaking the stigma and promoting transgender education and equality. This study employed a mixed-methods approach, combining qualitative content analysis of articles from three prominent Pakistani media outlets with a quantitative public opinion survey to evaluate the extent of media coverage and public attitudes toward transgender education and equality. This coverage helped create awareness and understanding of the transgender community. The government also took significant steps (Transgender Act 2018) by passing policies favoring the transgender community. Furthermore, the study showed that citizens have a positive attitude toward transgender equality, a sign of creating an inclusive society. The study also concluded that joint efforts between the government, print media, and citizens can help people break the stigma and promote transgender education and equality. This approach will pave the way for a more inclusive society that recognizes and values the rights of all individuals, regardless of their gender identity.

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Advocating for Transgender Immigrants in Detention Centers: Cisnormativity as a Tool for Racialized Social Control

Cited by 3 publications

References 27 publications

Racial/ethnic differences in the association between transgender-related U.S. state policies and self-rated health of transgender women

Racial/ethnic differences in the association between transgender-related U.S. state policies and self-rated health of transgender women

Migration and Racialization Part II: The Light and Shadow of Inclusion

Breaking the stigma: the joint effort of the government, print media, and citizens toward transgender education equality (2018–2022)

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