Fixing Gwen

Barker-Plummer, Bernadette

doi:10.1080/14680777.2012.679289

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“…This misuse of gender definitions and pronouns echoes the findings of others (see Barker-Plummer 2013;Capuzza 2016;Hackl, Becker, and Todd 2016;Parks Pieper 2015) and can thus be considered a larger issue in news media's reporting on transgender issues that contributes to structural oppression, delegitimising lived gender expressions, as established by the dominant cisnormative group (Billard forthcoming). Ryan (2009) argues that framing trans people as deceiving encourages a view of the trans community itself as insincere.…”

Section: Representations Of Trans People In Swedish Newspapers 1327supporting

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Representations of Trans People in Swedish Newspapers

Åkerlund

2018

Journalism Studies

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This article analyses the discursive representations of trans people in 15,901 mainstream Swedish newspaper articles between 2000 and 2017 using topic modelling and critical discourse analysis. Drawing from critical perspectives on gender it was found that the articles to various degree assisted in maintaining heteronormativity. The discursive strategies employed by the journalists included trivialisation of trans expressions as dress-up and incorporation of them within binary stereotypes. Trans people were also excluded and deemed as deviant in some articles through insensitive gender descriptions and descriptions. Through the voices of experts, trans people were silenced and pathologized and while some representations of trans people were meant to empower, and offered a slightly less rigid view on gender, these articles too reinforced heteronormativity through continuous referral to binary gender.

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Section: Representations Of Trans People In Swedish Newspapers 1327supporting

confidence: 63%

“…Often, this trope of deception has been present in American reporting concerning violence against transgender people (e.g. Barker-Plummer 2013;MacKenzie and Marcel 2009;Sloop 2000). However, while also an issue in Sweden (Public Health Agency of Sweden 2015), depictions of violence were absent in the articles analysed.…”

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Representations of Trans People in Swedish Newspapers

Åkerlund

2018

Journalism Studies

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“…Any individual that sought out sex reassignment surgery had to embody 'symptoms' of Gender Identity Disorder (GID), now called Gender Dysphoria (GD), manifesting in The Transexual Phenomenon (Benjamin et al, 1966); hence, pathologising themselves. By embodying symptoms, of what we now perceive as wrong body discourse (WBD), whether or not it is how transgender individuals interpreted their experience, they deceived doctors into providing them with the relevant treatments and eventually sex re-assignment surgery (Barker-Plummer, 2013). This can be understood as derivative of what Foucault (1978) highlighted as 'a psychiatrization of perverse pleasure' (105) that was occurring between 1700 and the victorian era, in which any subject whom didn't conform to 'procreative'sexuality was considered mentally ill.…”

Section: Transgender Rights Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fighting Social Normalisation in Generation Z: Trans* Youth Activism on Tumblr

Harris¹

2019

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Activism for socio-political movements has been affected by the progression of technology, enhancing the conditions under which advocates can communicate worldwide. Recently, Tumblr has announced accommodating large numbers of young transgender identified individuals. This article will offer an historical analysis of the progression of gay rights throughout the twentieth century, in comparison with the similar trajectory of the transgender movement now being catalysed by technology. Through discussing key arguments in transgender theory such as the pathologisation of Gender Dysphoria in the DSM; the heterogeneity of the transgender community; and rejecting essentialist ideas of gender: we can begin to understand the need for further integration of the rhetoric of gender fluidity into the public space, in which wrong body discourse and the politics of passing can be deconstructed. By dissecting the history of mainstream media representation of gay identities, we can now understand them to be in the final ‘respect’ stage, progressing through ‘non-recognition’, ‘ridicule’, and ‘regulation’ (Clark, 1969). A further comparison with transgender representation will highlight a non-recognition of the full heterogeneity of their community, which exemplifies the need for public discussion. Tumblr has a unique opportunity, as the biggest cyberspace community of young transgender identified individuals, to impact dialogues created around transgender politics. A discourse analysis of Tumblr’s platform evidences a need to optimise its usability for transgender members. The arguments will conclude proposing that Tumblr has the ability to create a space for influential dialogues that could expand past Tumblr and into wider public spaces.

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“…En la prensa sucede un fenómeno similar que en los programas de televisión. Barker-Plummer (2013), al analizar periódicos californianos, aseguró que la condición trans se ha visibilizado en la cultura popular, lo que da luz a sus demandas. En esta misma línea, Suhay (2015) afirmó que es importante aprovechar el espectáculo mediático, como en el caso de Caitlyn Jenner, para dar a conocer la problemática transgénero.…”

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La Comunicación y el Desarrollo Social desde la Comunicación

Álvarez-Monsiváis¹

2019

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Fixing Gwen

Cited by 49 publications

References 17 publications

Representations of Trans People in Swedish Newspapers

Representations of Trans People in Swedish Newspapers

Fighting Social Normalisation in Generation Z: Trans* Youth Activism on Tumblr

La Comunicación y el Desarrollo Social desde la Comunicación

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