Feminist Participatory Action Research with Transgender Communities: Fostering the Practice of Ethical and Empowering Research Designs

Singh, Anneliese A.; Richmond, Kate; Burnes, Theodore R.

doi:10.1080/15532739.2013.818516

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“…Furthermore, trans people continue being subjected to discrimination and transphobic violence [1][2][3][4][6][7][8]. An emerging field of trans studies and allies identify a frequent pathologization of trans experiences in research, by means of discriminatory conceptualizations, terminologies and visual representations, the promotion of clinical practices that do not fulfill human rights standards, and ethnocentric biases [42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53]. They observe a frequent lack of ethical practices in research processes with trans people, such as an absence of informed consent, violation of confidentiality, and lack of opportunities for active participation in research processes [42-44, 49, 51].…”

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Trans health care from a depathologization and human rights perspective

Schwend

2020

Public Health Rev

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Trans people are exposed to multiple human right violations in clinical practice and research. From 1975 on, gender transition processes have been classified as a mental disorder in diagnostic classification manuals, a classification that was removed recently from ICD, International Classification of Diseases, and continues in DSM, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Trans people in different world regions are forced to accept psychiatric diagnoses and assessment in order to get access to trans health care, subject to reparative therapies and exposed to transphobic institutional and social discrimination and violence. In many countries, gender identity laws include medical requirements, such as psychiatric diagnosis, hormone treatment, genital surgery, or sterilization. In the scientific literature, a frequent pathologization of trans experiences can be identified, by means of pathologizing conceptualizations, terminologies, visual representations, and practices, as well as ethnocentric biases. Trans activism and scholarship have questioned widely the pathologization of trans people in clinical practice and research. Over the last decade, an international trans depathologization movement emerged, demanding, among other claims, the removal of the diagnostic classification of transexuality as a mental disorder, as well as changes in the health care and legal context. International and regional bodies built up a human rights framework related to sexual, gender and bodily diversity that constitute a relevant reference point for trans depathologization activism. The Yogyakarta Principles, published in 2007 and extended in 2017 by means of the Yogyakarta Principles plus 10, establish an application of international human rights law in relation to sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, and sex characteristics. International and regional human rights bodies included demands related to depathologization in their agenda. More recently, advancements towards trans depathologization can be observed in the diagnostic classifications, as well as in the health care and legal context. At the same time, trans people continue being exposed to pathologization and transphobic violence. The Human Rights in Patient Care (HRPC) framework offers a human right-based approach on health care practices. The paper aims at analyzing the shared human rights focus and potential alliances between the trans depathologization perspective and the HRPC framework.

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Trans health care from a depathologization and human rights perspective

Schwend

2020

Public Health Rev

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“…This research has contributed to the field of arts-informed CBPR by highlighting the value in providing space for youth to engage in creative methods to represent their experiences. It also reveals the importance of promoting participant involvement, collaboration, and researcher positionality (Singh et al, 2013). It will be important for researchers working with nonbinary communities to be flexible in their creative approaches to working with diverse youth.…”

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“A Space Where People Get It”: A Methodological Reflection of Arts-Informed Community-Based Participatory Research With Nonbinary Youth

Furman

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Wilson

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International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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This article is a methodological reflection of Bye Bye Binary, a community-based participatory research project (CBPR) that explored nonbinary youths’ experiences of identity development, engagement in activism, discrimination, and mental health in Ontario, Canada. The arts-informed method of body mapping was employed in a workshop format to garner the experiences of 10 nonbinary youth (aged 16–25), in conjunction with additional qualitative methods (i.e., individual interviews and reflective notes). Findings suggest that the body-mapping workshop fostered a safe environment that promoted idea generation, affirmation, self-exploration, and connections through a shared identity, thus creating “a space where people get it.” Methodological challenges that arose throughout the process are discussed, including engagement in art as “awkward,” barriers of limited time and funding, participant recruitment, and collaboration and integration. Lastly, the authors reflect on their learnings engaging in CBPR and provide insights into how researchers can move forward and apply these methods and processes into their own work engaging in arts-informed research or with nonbinary individuals.

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“…After researchers develop a comprehensive understanding of transvloggers' sociorelational challenges and their extant efforts to mediate these conflicts, researchers can collaborate with diverse representatives of the transvlog community to design Participatory Action Research (PAR) projects. PAR encourages researchers to reflect on their own sociocultural positionality before joining traditionally marginalized groups' political action efforts (Singh, Richmond, Burnes, 2013). Instead of conducting studies on people, PAR researchers conduct studies with people (Cammarota & Fine, 2008).…”

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“…Researchers have utilized PAR to collaboratively challenge and change social inequities that adversely affect participants' wellbeing and mental health (Singh et al, 2013). Ironically, the inequities that affect trans mental health are often embedded within the mental health-care models themselves.…”

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Transvlogs: online communication tools for transformative agency and development

Etengoff

2019

Mind, Culture, and Activity

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This paper examines how 21 transgender individuals used YouTube transvlogs to co-create their own transformative agency. Drawing on a social justice framework, I conduct narrative content analysis to explore how a historically marginalized population enacted their own transformative development without researcher intervention. I suggest that by questioning the status quo, explicating and envisioning new activity patterns, and committing to concrete online and offline actions, transvloggers develop themselves and their community in transformative ways. Vloggers' resistance and pursuit of new developmental pathways illustrate the power of individuals to design their own technological transformative systems even amidst challenging circumstances.

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Feminist Participatory Action Research with Transgender Communities: Fostering the Practice of Ethical and Empowering Research Designs

Cited by 54 publications

References 34 publications

Trans health care from a depathologization and human rights perspective

Trans health care from a depathologization and human rights perspective

“A Space Where People Get It”: A Methodological Reflection of Arts-Informed Community-Based Participatory Research With Nonbinary Youth

Transvlogs: online communication tools for transformative agency and development

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