Author ORCID Identifier

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9234-8597

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-9-2010

Publication Title

Journal of LGBT Youth

Volume

7

Issue

4

First Page

320

Last Page

345

Abstract

This article examines the representations of transqueers (specifically female to male transsexuals) in popular media and how these representations shape attitudes of transqueers both with those outside the LBGT community and those within the community. The article discusses how these cultural images of FTM transqueers imply that being accepted often means surgery and hormones in order to “pass” as male, and it challenges educators to work more overtly and diligently to educate toward critical consciousness regarding the sex/gender system and the rigidity of the binary that removes transgendered people as nonentities. The article offers an argument about how to approach these discussions with students and what texts will complicate the sex/gender binary as it is presented to us via the media representations of transqueers.

Comments

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in [Journal of LGBT Youth] on [October 9, 2010], available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/19361653.2010.512521

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