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Transgender Digital Embodiments: Questions Of The Transgender Body In The 21st Century, Jessica Fisher
Transgender Digital Embodiments: Questions Of The Transgender Body In The 21st Century, Jessica Fisher
Master of Arts in American Studies Capstones
This thesis looks at an intra-community discourse in the transgender community between “transtrenders” and “transmedicalists” or “truscum.” It observes how these different sub-communities conceive of what it means to be transgender and attempts to contextualize these conceptions within transgender history. This thesis utilizes a brief ethnography of online spaces where transgender community discourse could be found, including Reddit, Twitter, and Tumblr. It discusses the idea of “transtrenders” as cultural appropriators, looks at the role of passing, and wanting to and trying to pass, in the transgender community and in conceptions of who is truly transgender and who isn’t. This thesis …