Studying trans: recommendations for ethical recruitment and collaboration with transgender participants in academic research

Vincent, B.

doi:10.1080/19419899.2018.1434558

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“…Recently, researchers have outlined ethical guidelines on research with trans populations, emphasizing the importance of community engagement, sensitivity to language and historic context, and recognizing the emotional labour asked of research participants (Adams et al ; Vincent ). Although not specifically focusing on age, such guidance is practically helpful for designing research that centres the experiences and concerns of older trans people and contributes to service and policy development.…”

Section: Methodological Challengesmentioning

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Developing a critical trans gerontology

Toze

2018

British Journal of Sociology

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Within existing academic literature, ageing within trans populations has primarily been addressed from the perspective of offering advice to service providers and clinicians, with relatively limited application of critical sociological perspectives. This article seeks to integrate the critical perspectives on gerontology with transfeminism, identifying areas of commonality regarding accounts of an integrated lifecourse, scepticism of biomedicalization, and an emphasis on local context. The article suggests that this integration provides a fruitful basis for developing future research into the study of trans ageing, and also provides theoretical development across many debates around age, gender and the lifecourse.

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Section: Methodological Challengesmentioning

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Developing a critical trans gerontology

Toze

2018

British Journal of Sociology

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“…Furthermore, trans authors and allies contributed ethical reflections for studies on trans issues [13,14,30,[42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53], proposals for reducing cisgenderism in research practices [50,52], recommendations for including gender diversity beyond the binary in quantitative methodologies [128], and for using a non-pathologizing language in the media [129].…”

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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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“…It is not our intent to revisit widely accepted ethical norms and standards of social research [10], but rather to interrogate their heterocisnormativity, and through that examination, extend those norms and standards as they relate to gender and sexually diverse individuals, communities, and researchers. While there has been some attention paid to the need for increased research in gender and sexually diverse communities, especially in the area of health and mental health [11], there has been more limited work on the ethics of research in this area, although there have been some recent proposals of ethical principles with trans and non-binary participants [12,13]. We seek to address this lacuna and introduce some possible ways to address the challenges of research with gender and sexually diverse people.…”

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Research Ethics with Gender and Sexually Diverse Persons

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Identifying and developing inclusive policy and practice responses to health and social inequities in gender and sexually diverse persons require inclusive research ethics and methods in order to develop sound data. This article articulates 12 ethical principles for researchers undertaking gender and sexually diverse social, health, and related research. We have called these the ‘Montréal Ethical Principles for Inclusive Research.’ While writing from an international social work perspective, our aim is to promote ethical research that benefits people being researched by all disciplines. This paper targets four groups of interest: 1. Cisgender and heterosexual researchers; 2. Researchers who research ‘general’ populations; 3. and sexually diverse researchers; 4. Human ethics committees. This article was stimulated by the 2018 Global Social Work Statement of Ethical Principles, which positions human dignity at its core. It is critically important to understand and account for the intersectionality of gender and sexuality with discourses of race, ethnicity, colonialism, dis/ability, age, etc. Taking this intersectionality into consideration, this article draws on scholarship that underpins ethical principles developed for other minoritized communities, to ensure that research addresses the autonomy of these participants at every stage. Research that positions inclusive research ethics at its foundation can provide a solid basis for policy and practice responses to health and social inequities in gender and sexually diverse persons.

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Studying trans: recommendations for ethical recruitment and collaboration with transgender participants in academic research

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Cited by 177 publications

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Developing a critical trans gerontology

Developing a critical trans gerontology

Trans health care from a depathologization and human rights perspective

Research Ethics with Gender and Sexually Diverse Persons

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