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Transfeminist Methodology (Hale and Serano's guideposts for the…
Transfeminist Methodology
Gender identity is subject to specific behaviors and practices.
Some gender identities are valued more than others, and thus creating inequalities between genders.
The use of transfeminist methodologies should be used to work against the marginalization of trans individuals.
commitments within feminist methodology that should be used for transgender studies.
the use of concepts from transgender theorists.
transgender sociology
Hale and Serano's guideposts for the development of transfeminist methodological approach
Transfeminist Standpoint epistemology
you are not the expert, only transgender people are experts of their own experiences.
relate institutional power to sexist knowledge claims
incorporate earlier feminist scholarship
set a standard and new suggestions for future feminist research
serve as a tool for activists fighting for oppressed groups
for transgender equality through transgender research to challenge cis-sexist knowledge claims and its power structures
Reflexivity
acknowledgement of unequal power (researcher and the participants/subject matter) (pg25)
Ciscentricity
reconstruction of the social through a cisgender perspective
positions transgender people in a "subordinate, marginal, and extraordinary" position by applying "man" and "women" to the term transgender
Cissexist Double Standards
the constant policing of the lives and experiences of transgender people and neglecting those of cisgender folks
origin
implication
motivation
Holding transgender people accountable to different standards of conduct and forces them into false binary (normal and abnormal)
Objectification
"disregard an individuals personhood, strip them of agency, and position them as a thing that is acted upon or used in interaction to the benefit of another"
Caricatures: what it means to be a gendered person in society
Transgender people as "gender conformist": reinforcement of gender "appropriateness"
reducing transgender people to their hormone and genital status :they are the ones who get to identify themselves
overgeneralization
"the act of presenting a study as if it were applicable to both sexes while only dealing with one sex"
overspecificity
"the presentation of research in a way that makes it difficult to determine if the data covers one or more sex categories"
gender insensitivity
"failure to acknowledge sex as a socially important variable