G.4.a. Transgender Issues and Activism Globally

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Trans people often experience extreme dangers and difficulties, and their particular problems tend to be peripheral to campaigns for gays and lesbians, although transnational organizations like IGLHRC and ILGA do take up trans cases and support initiatives like the Transgender Day of Remembrance on 1st December for those murdered (the 16th annual remembrance was held in 2014).

But there are now groups and projects which focus on trans people. Transgender Europe monitors and lobbies organizations like the EU and the Council of Europe and national governments and launched the Trans Murder Monitoring project, see: http://www.tgeu.org.

The Trans Awareness Project (a poster and digital media campaign challenging stereotypes and promoting respect for people of all genders) is sponsored by the University of Minnesota, see: http://www.transawareness.org. A new dedicated journal on trans issues is Transgender Studies Quarterly: http://tsq.dukejournals.org.

Despite continuing violence and prejudice, public perceptions of trans people are being challenged in social media, and sometimes in films and TV, and a few governments have begun to recognize trans legally, for example in marriage laws or issuing passports. Support groups as are also burgeoning. See:

Arkles, Gabriel; Gehi, Pooja; Redfield, Elana The Role of Lawyers in Trans Liberation: Building a Transformative Movement for Social Change, Vol. 8, issue 2 (summer), 2010 , pp. 578-641

Broad, K.L. GLB +T?: Gender/Sexuality Movements and Transgender Collective Identity (De)Constructions, Vol. 7, issue 4 (October), 2002 , pp. 341-364

Brossi, Lionel; Landa, María; de Zarate, Amalia The Intersex Movement: Empowering Through New Technologies, Vol. 2, issue 22 (Special Issue), 2012 , pp. 64-75

Feinberg, Leslie Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue, Boston MA, Beacon Press, 1998 , pp. 147

Collection of speeches by Feinberg (poet and grassroots activist in US) covering range of issues including health care reform and infant genital mutilation.
Hines, Sally TransForming Gender: Transgender Practices of Identity, Intimacy and Care, Chicago IL, University of Chicago Press, Policy Press, 2007 , pp. 232

Drawing on interviews with transgender people charts impact of changing legislation in UK. Primarily about individual experience and social context, but there is a chapter on: ‘Transgender Care Networks, Social Movements and Citizenship’.
Liminalis, Intersex and Transgender in Movement!, Liminalis, 2009

Includes article on ‘Intersex and Transgender Activism in South Africa’ and interviews with activists from Africa, Latin America and Europe discussing situation of trans people, forms of organization and role transnational organizations in these regions.
Moreno, Aluminé The Politics of Visibility and the GLTTTBI Movement in Argentina, Vol. 89, issue 1, 2008 , pp. 138-143

Motmans, Joz We Can’t Have Men Giving Birth! (But We Do). The Impact of the Belgian Transgender Movement on the Well-Being of Transgender Persons in Belgium, In Alison E. Woodward, Jean-Michel Bonvin, Merce Renom, Transforming Gendered Well-Being in Europe (F.3.a. General, Regional and National Studies) Aldershot, Ashgate, 2011 pp. smaller than 0

Silva de Assis, C. Transgendering the media: Trans Media Watch and the struggle over representations of transgender in the British media, Utrecht, University of Utrecht, Faculty of Humanities Theses, 2014 , pp. 100

Stone, Amy Transgender Movement, In Donatella Della Porta, Doug McAdam, David A Snow, Bert Klandermans, The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements (1.a. Transnational and Continent-wide Movements and Networks) Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013 pp. smaller than 0

Examines evolution of US transgender movement from 1960s as it challenged violence, demanded legal recognition and resisted employment discrimination, poverty and media misrepresentation.

Websites recommended

GLB +T?: Gender/Sexuality Movements and Transgender Collective Identity (De)Constructions , 2002
Intersex and Transgender in Movement! (http://www.liminalis.de/articles.html) Liminalis, 2009

Includes article on ‘Intersex and Transgender Activism in South Africa’ and interviews with activists from Africa, Latin America and Europe discussing situation of trans people, forms of organization and role transnational organizations in these regions.
The Intersex Movement: Empowering Through New Technologies (http://www.ijhssnet.com/journals/Vol_2_No_22_Special_Issue_November_2012/7.pdf) , 2012
The Politics of Visibility and the GLTTTBI Movement in Argentina , 2008
The Role of Lawyers in Trans Liberation: Building a Transformative Movement for Social Change , 2010
Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue Boston MA Beacon Press, 1998

Collection of speeches by Feinberg (poet and grassroots activist in US) covering range of issues including health care reform and infant genital mutilation.
TransForming Gender: Transgender Practices of Identity, Intimacy and Care Chicago IL University of Chicago Press, Policy Press, 2007

Drawing on interviews with transgender people charts impact of changing legislation in UK. Primarily about individual experience and social context, but there is a chapter on: ‘Transgender Care Networks, Social Movements and Citizenship’.
Transgender Movement (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9780470674871.wbespm494/full) Oxford Wiley-Blackwell, 2013

Examines evolution of US transgender movement from 1960s as it challenged violence, demanded legal recognition and resisted employment discrimination, poverty and media misrepresentation.
Transgendering the media: Trans Media Watch and the struggle over representations of transgender in the British media (http://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/298700) Utrecht University of Utrecht, Faculty of Humanities Theses, 2014
We Can’t Have Men Giving Birth! (But We Do). The Impact of the Belgian Transgender Movement on the Well-Being of Transgender Persons in Belgium Aldershot Ashgate, 2011