Research Topic Suggestions

[Valerie Elizabeth]

I'm taking a class called "Queering Gender" and it's a focus on Transgender (mostly).  I need some ideas for a research paper topic, as I can't come up with one.

Any ideas? 

Something transgender related.

[Jasmine.m]

How about something showing that ->-bleeped-<- exists
across all ethnicities, religons and socioeconomic statuses?

[brainiac]

I read a book called Her Husband was a Woman!: Women's Gender-Crossing in Modern British Popular Culture. It's quite short and I found it interesting to see a slice of history through newspaper articles and how attitudes changed with the advent of psychiatry. I think you could get some ideas if you looked through books like that.

[LordKAT]

How people have perceived transexuals or others through time?

[rejennyrated]

Well when I was thinking about a Phd in human sexuality (sadly put paid to by the credit crunch) I was thinking of doing something along the lines of studying: the difference between media portrayal of Trans issues and the observed reality, and the way in which both have evolved over the past 60 years.

[Dana Lane]

How about showing why various trans=related medical procedures are mandatory and not cosmetic and why insurance should cover them. FFS, BA and GRS as well as HRT, Laser/Electrolysis facial hair removal.

And maybe suicide rates and how it ties to not being able to have the medical procedures due to cost.

[shanetastic]

I did a paper on transgender mental health last quarter.  It turned out all right but I only had like 7 or 8 sources total was sorta hard to find.  Made the analysis part easy at least :p