TY - GEN
T1 - An Affirmation of Trans Livelihood In and Beyond Postsecondary Education
AU - Catalano, D. Chase J.
AU - Burris Haslerig, Siduri
AU - Jourian, T.J.
AU - Nicolazzo, Z.
N1 - We wish to acknowledge that all authors contributed equally to this brief, and are listed alphabetically by last name. We ask people who cite this to list all author names in recognition of this shared effort rather than using “et al.” to indicate co-authors.
PY - 2021/8/20
Y1 - 2021/8/20
N2 - In the Foreword to the Transgender Studies Reader, Stephen Whittle wrote, “Trans identities were one of the most written about subjects of the late twentieth century. New communities of transgender and transsexual people have created new industries, a new academic discipline, [and] new forms of entertainment. ...Any Internet search, whether of Web sites, news articles, or academic papers will produce thousands of results” (p. xi).2 Indeed, there has been a similar increase in academic publishing regarding trans identities, including in postsecondary education. And yet, despite this increasingly rich and diverse scholarship, trans people, particularly trans women and trans women of color, are cast as nonhuman, being used as foils for suggestions that gender identity is solely “a hotly contested matter of public concern” (p. 15),3 and, as such, is separated from the actual lived reality of trans people. In other words, despite a rich set of empirical research in and beyond postsecondary education, trans people continue to be rendered as nonhuman, their lived realities subject to public opinion and debate, and their agency stripped due to their supposed false claims of gendered selfhood.
AB - In the Foreword to the Transgender Studies Reader, Stephen Whittle wrote, “Trans identities were one of the most written about subjects of the late twentieth century. New communities of transgender and transsexual people have created new industries, a new academic discipline, [and] new forms of entertainment. ...Any Internet search, whether of Web sites, news articles, or academic papers will produce thousands of results” (p. xi).2 Indeed, there has been a similar increase in academic publishing regarding trans identities, including in postsecondary education. And yet, despite this increasingly rich and diverse scholarship, trans people, particularly trans women and trans women of color, are cast as nonhuman, being used as foils for suggestions that gender identity is solely “a hotly contested matter of public concern” (p. 15),3 and, as such, is separated from the actual lived reality of trans people. In other words, despite a rich set of empirical research in and beyond postsecondary education, trans people continue to be rendered as nonhuman, their lived realities subject to public opinion and debate, and their agency stripped due to their supposed false claims of gendered selfhood.
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JO - Association for the Study of Higher Education
JF - Association for the Study of Higher Education
ER -