The Sick Trans Person: Negotiations, Healthcare, and the Tension of Demedicalization

by Evelyn Callahan

Overview

Healthcare for transgender people is in crisis. Many of the problems stem from bureaucracies within the health system, limiting conceptualizations of sex and gender, and the requirement for a diagnosis of ‘gender dysphoria’.

This book presents a unique argument for full demedicalization of transness as a crucial step towards removing existing barriers to good healthcare. Resisting the current norm of separating sex and gender, it also argues for an understanding of them as necessarily interlinked and co-constructed.

By elevating trans voices and experiences, this book offers a new perspective on transness, medicalization and research methodologies to help trans people, practitioners and policy makers better understand the barriers faced by trans people when seeking healthcare.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781447371106
Publisher:	Bristol University Press
Publication date:	10/22/2024
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Evelyn Callahan is Research Fellow at UniversityCollege London. Their research interests include trans healthcare, healthcare in resource limited settings and applied qualitative research methods.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Trans Methodology

2. Models of Sex and Gender

3. Re-understanding Sex and Gender

4. Medicalization

5. Bureaucracy, Time and Space

6. Pedagogy and TransLiteracy

Conclusion

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“A timely book that documents barriers and challenges in trans healthcare and contemporary community practices in response.” Michael Toze, University of Lincoln

"This eminently readable book could not possibly be more timely. Against a backdrop of escalating hate, ignorance and pseudoscience, Callahan makes an important case for trans-led approaches to research and demedicalisation.”

Ruth Pearce, University of Glasgow

Editorial Reviews

"This eminently readable book could not possibly be more timely. Against a backdrop of escalating hate, ignorance and pseudoscience, Callahan makes an important case for trans-led approaches to research and demedicalisation.”

Ruth Pearce, University of Glasgow

“A timely book that documents barriers and challenges in trans healthcare and contemporary community practices in response.” Michael Toze, University of Lincoln

From the Publisher