Medicalisation

Thomas, Felicity

doi:10.4324/9781003185215-4

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“…This study occurs within a geopolitical Western context in which some conservatives are attempting to police the category “female” (Sharrow 2021), as an oppressive force fuelling anti-trans rhetoric (Hsu 2022). We argue that a focus on the sexed body is bound up in the medicalization of both women’s bodies, childbirth and trans identities whereby trans people who seek perinatal care can be cast under suspicion as not being truly what they claim to be (Gill-Peterson 2014; Thomas 2021). The fecund body has similarly “been socially gendered as unquestioningly feminine because of its association with female-bodied people” (Ryan 2013, 119).…”

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Perinatal Care for Trans and Nonbinary People Birthing in Heteronormative “Maternity” Services: Experiences and Educational Needs of Professionals

Pezaro

Crowther²,

Pearce³

et al. 2022

Gender & Society

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Childbearing trans and nonbinary people are confronted with the heteronormative and cisgender frameworks that underpin “maternity” services. We explored the educational needs of 108 perinatal staff in the United Kingdom as related to the needs of trans and nonbinary service users. Participants were most confident in formulating care plans and least confident about the provision of colleagues’ perinatal care in this context. While the majority of participants were positive toward the trans and nonbinary communities, they considered that those communities remain marginalized in perinatal services. Transphobic, anti-trans, and nonbinary attitudes were highlighted by our respondents. Our findings suggest that caregivers witnessed transphobia among colleagues and were apprehensive themselves about providing care to childbearing trans and nonbinary people. They reported a cisheteronormative model of care that lacked awareness of trans and nonbinary issues. The educational needs identified included information about the practicalities of childbearing as a trans or nonbinary person, how to use inclusive language effectively, and creating policies and processes for supporting childbearing trans and nonbinary people. These caregivers’ preferences included hearing from trans and nonbinary people and sharing best practices among themselves, with open discussions about how to be inclusive.

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Perinatal Care for Trans and Nonbinary People Birthing in Heteronormative “Maternity” Services: Experiences and Educational Needs of Professionals

Pezaro

Crowther²,

Pearce³

et al. 2022

Gender & Society

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Medicalisation in Healthcare

Quattri

2023

Gaps and Actions in Health Improvement From Hong Kong and Beyond

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Gender‐inclusive language in midwifery and perinatal services: A guide and argument for justice

Pezaro,

Pendleton,

van der Waal

et al. 2024

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Effective communication in relation to pregnancy and birth is crucial to quality care. A recent focus in reproductive healthcare on “sexed language” reflects an ideology of unchangeable sex binary and fear of erasure, from both cisgender women and the profession of midwifery. In this paper, we highlight how privileging sexed language causes harm to all who birth—including pregnant trans, gender diverse, and non‐binary people—and is, therefore, unethical and incompatible with the principles of midwifery. We show how this argument, which conflates midwifery with essentialist thinking, is unstable, and perpetuates and misappropriates midwifery's marginalized status. We also explore how sex and gender essentialism can be understood as colonialist, heteropatriarchal, and universalist, and therefore, reinforcing of these harmful principles. Midwifery has both the opportunity and duty to uphold reproductive justice. Midwifery can be a leader in the decolonization of childbirth and in defending the rights of all childbearing people, the majority of whom are cisgender women. As the systemwide use of inclusive language is central to this commitment, we offer guidance in relation to how inclusive language in perinatal and midwifery services may be realized.

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Medicalisation

Cited by 7 publications

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Perinatal Care for Trans and Nonbinary People Birthing in Heteronormative “Maternity” Services: Experiences and Educational Needs of Professionals

Perinatal Care for Trans and Nonbinary People Birthing in Heteronormative “Maternity” Services: Experiences and Educational Needs of Professionals

Medicalisation in Healthcare

Gender‐inclusive language in midwifery and perinatal services: A guide and argument for justice

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