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On The Just And Accurate Representation Of Transgender Persons In Research And The Clinic, Alexis Dinno
On The Just And Accurate Representation Of Transgender Persons In Research And The Clinic, Alexis Dinno
Community Health Faculty Publications and Presentations
Transgender people deserve representation in health research and in the clinic. Unfortunately, the existing literature includes very little about the particular health burdens and risks experienced by transgender people, such as institutional or interpersonal anti-transgender discrimination. While several anti-transgender biases are manifest in the published literature, one deserving particular attention by researchers is that transgender individuals seldom have an opportunity to self-identify as such both because sex and gender are typically collapsed into a single question (e.g. ‘Sex: male or female.’), and because change in the individual’s sex or gender is typically not represented. This talk presents the collaborative efforts …
On The Just And Accurate Representation Of Transgender Persons In Research, Alexis Dinno, Molly C. Franks, Jenn Burleton, Tyler C. Smith
On The Just And Accurate Representation Of Transgender Persons In Research, Alexis Dinno, Molly C. Franks, Jenn Burleton, Tyler C. Smith
Community Health Faculty Publications and Presentations
Transgender people deserve representation in population-based research, particularly health research, whether the research is programmatic or academic. Unfortunately, the existing academic literature includes very little about the particular health burdens and risks experienced by transgender people, such as institutional or interpersonal anti-transgender discrimination. While several anti-transgender biases are manifest in the published literature, one deserving particular attention by researcher is that transgender individuals seldom have an opportunity to self-identify as such both because sex and gender are typically collapsed into a single question in interviews and on surveys (e.g. ‘Sex: male or female.’), and because change in the individual’s sex …