“I Could See Little Bits of How I Progressed”: Coordinating Rhythms in a Midwest Gender‐affirming Health Clinic

Abstract

This article examines how staff and patients worked to reconcile the rhythms of the body with those of gender‐normative health care bureaucracy in a U.S. Midwest gender‐affirming health clinic. Drawing from observations of clinical appointments and routine bureaucratic practice, as well as debriefing interviews with transgender and gender‐expansive patients, this article applies Laura Bear's theory of “time‐maps” and a new materialist approach to bodily agency that recognizes the variability of the body's responses to gender‐affirming health care. This evidence demonstrates how health care staff and patients’ labor practices structured patients’ abilities to embody their plans for medical transition. Anticipating the varied trajectories bodies take during medical transition can interrupt the reproduction of harmful cultural assumptions about sex difference in U.S. health care bureaucracy.

Development and Psychometric Evaluation of the Gender Identity Scale for Transgender Women in China

“…Physical Transition reflects the individual’s attitude toward removing their own male secondary sex characteristics and obtaining vaginoplasty or breast implants at the physiological level, which is also the core criteria of both the DSM-V and ICD-11 diagnosis ( Beek et al, 2016 ). In addition, the physical transition through HRT or surgery is the main purpose behind the majority of transgender women’s decision to come into a clinic and contact with clinicians ( Racila, 2021 ). The evaluation of this dimension could be used by clinicians who have transgender women clients to understand the individual’s attitude toward changing their physical characteristics through hormones and surgery.…”