Trans and nonbinary leadership and civic engagement

Arnold-Renicker, Heather; Inselman, Kyle; Rivera, Jennifer; Whitley, Cameron T.

doi:10.4324/9780429443176-26

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“…Some disciplines like social work have started to have these conversations in determining how to support the development of transgender professionals (Arnold‐Renicker et al. 2020). In addition, future research should focus on those who decide to leave their degree programs due to lack of support regarding their transgender identity.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…If social science fields are more open to honoring transgender people’s identity claims, including practices that support transgender activism and leadership (see e.g., Arnold‐Renicker, Inselman, Rivera and Whitley 2020; Bowers and Whitley 2020b), and integrating transgender social practices of not assuming gender identities based on bodily appearance and, instead, linguistically communicating gender pronouns in order to determine gender (Nordmarken 2019), we would expect transgender students in these disciplines to experience lower rates of chronic misgendering compared with those in natural sciences. If health and biological science disciplines more strongly adhere to gender essentialism and cisnormativity, then we would expect transgender graduate students in these disciplines to experience higher rates of chronic misgendering compared with those in other natural science disciplines and in the social sciences.…”

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I’ve Been Misgendered So Many Times: Comparing the Experiences of Chronic Misgendering among Transgender Graduate Students in the Social and Natural Sciences

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Sociological Inquiry

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Chronic misgendering is the process of being repeatedly misgendered (referred to as another gender) after informing an individual of gender pronouns (e.g., “she,” “he,” “they”). Chronic misgendering is symbolic of larger institutional and disciplinary adherence to a paradigm that privileges cisgender people, referred to as a gender essentialist paradigm. In order to understand which disciplines in higher education have more pervasive chronic misgendering, we analyze results from the National Survey of Transgender Graduate Students (n = 245). Graduate students in the natural sciences experience more chronic misgendering compared to graduate students in the social sciences. Those in health and biological science fields (in and closely related to medicine) reported the highest level of chronic misgendering, accounting for the majority of all chronic misgendering in the natural sciences. We argue that not only do these incidents negatively impact transgender graduate students, but they also reflect and reproduce field‐specific expectations for what is considered acceptable misgendering practice in post‐graduate professional environments, such as community health and medicine. As such, chronic misgendering in graduate school functions as unofficial curricula and thus, training for workplace cultures that, to different degrees, devalue transgender people and contribute to structural inequalities.

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confidence: 99%