Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies

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Index American Educational Research Association, 2008 Conference, 24 American Journal of Public Health, 113 American Psychiatric Association, 38, 71 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 186 anti-colonial. See decolonization anti-discrimination law: access to employment and housing and, 185; criminal punishment system and, 186; critical race theory and, 187; discriminatory intent and, 186; in higher education , 86–87, 90–91, 95–96; immigration law and, 135–136; neoliberalism and, 186; people of color and, 185–186; perpetrator perspective and, 187–189, 193; racism and, 185, 187–188; restrooms and, 92, 96, 187; secondary education and, 85; transphobia and, 191; trans rights and, 184–185; visibility and, 185–186 Anzaldúa, Gloria, 29 Aoki, Ryka, 77 Arkle, Gabriel, 230n31 Association for Women in Psychology 2007 Conference, trans-misogyny and, 172 asylum, 135, 137, 139–140 athletes, intersex and transgender, 100–101, 110–111 athletics: femininity and, 98, 101–102; gender binary in, 98–101, 104, 106–108, 110–111; gender identity and, 98–99, 110; gender verification in, 103–104, 107–108; heteronormativity and, 98–99, 101–102; International Olympic Committee criteria, 104–105; masculinity and, 101–102, 107; policies in, 98–99, 103–106, 110–111; privilege in, 101, 111; sexism in, 109; sex reassignment surgery and the International Olympic Committee, 104– 105, 108; sex segregation in, 100–101, 108– 109; Title IX, 100, 108–110; whiteness and women in, 101–102 Audre Lorde Project (ALP), 127 “autogynephilia,” 38 ableism, 23, 186; subjectivities and, 166 academic-industrial complex, 46. See also the academy academy, the: activism and scholarship in, 128– 131, 223n70; biases within, 37–42; coming out in, 37; commodification of knowledge and, 46, 51–52, 56; corporatization of, 46; covering and, 41–43; diversity in, 40, 42–43, 130; gender transition and, 36–37, 43–44; medical research and, 37–40; “queer time” and, 36–37; women’s studies and, 36–38, 44. See also higher education access: anti-discrimination laws and, 185, 190– 191; to employment, 87, 190–191; gender/ sex nonconformity and, 64, 212–213nn17– 18, 222n32; to health care, 37–38, 93–95, 113–118, 124, 129–130, 165–167; to information and resources in higher education, 86–88; as lens in health provider training, 127; neoliberalism and individualism and, 155, 157–158; to transition procedures, 130, 155; violence and health care, 113; whiteness and, 64 activism: capitalism and, 159; cisgender genealogy and, 62–63; employment and, 159– 161; feminism and, 47; health care and sex reassignment surgery and, 155, 164, 166– 167; health provider training and, 120, 124; immigration reform and, 192; multi-issue organizing and, 127; policies in higher education and, 81; programming in higher education and, 86; rights and law reform and, 184–185 adolescent development, 28–29 Ahmed, Sara, 130 Allums, Kye, 98, 106 allyship: cis and performance of, 62; in education , 68–69, 86–88; policing and, 71, 76–77. See also health provider training ally training, 86–88; transphobia in, 68–69 254 Index binary. See gender binary biomedicine. See medical establishment biopolitics, 136–137 Board of Immigration Appeals, 142 Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits, 163 borderlands, 29 borders: appropriation of, 135; capitalism and, 155; mobility and, 135–136 Boricuas, 24, 27–28 Bornstein, Kate, 84 Bowers, Marci, 73–74 branding, of trans subjects, 160–161 Brown, Wendy, 54, 184 Buijs, Carl, 60 Butler, Judith, 49, 53, 62, 153, 156, 165 Cameron, Loren, 163–164 Camp Trans: critiques of racism in, 66–67; inclusion/exclusion policies and, 66–67; selfidentification and, 66 Campus Climate Index, 85 Campus Pride, 85 capitalism: activism and, 159; borders and, 155; educational-industrial complex and, 46, 52, 54; employment and, 159–160; individualism and, 157; knowledge commodification and, 46; law reform and, 193; subjectivities and, 153–156, 168–169 Caruth, Cathy, 59 Cayuga Indian Nation Land Claim, 26 Cayuga Nation territory, 24, 30 Center for Addictions and Mental Health (CAMH) Gender Identity Clinic, 166 Chavez, Karma, 144, 146 Childhood Gender Identity Disorder, 71 cisgender: activism and, 62–63; allyship and, 62, 68; critical race theory and, 64; feminism and, 64; gender normativity and, 62, 69–70, 73, 75– 76, 129, 215n44, 223n69; genealogy of, 60–61, 63; as racialized, 62; trans* identity and, 62; transphobia and, 68. See also cissexuality cisnormativity. See cisgender; gender normativity cissexuality: access to medical treatment and narratives of, 38–39; privilege of, 64–66, 69–70, 76–77, 212–213nn17–18 cis/trans binary, 64, 66–67; neoliberalism and, 65, 76–77. See also gender binary citizenship: performance of, 144...