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Started by Valerie Elizabeth, April 15, 2010, 08:33:57 PM

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Valerie Elizabeth

April 15, 2010, 08:33:57 PM
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.
"There comes a point in life when you realize everything you know about yourself, it's all just conditioning."  True Blood

"You suffer a lot more hiding something than if you face up to it."  True Blood
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Jasmine.m

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April 15, 2010, 08:43:15 PM
How about something showing that ->-bleeped-<- exists
across all ethnicities, religons and socioeconomic statuses?
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brainiac

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April 15, 2010, 09:24:21 PM
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.
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LordKAT

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April 16, 2010, 11:15:01 AM
How people have perceived transexuals or others through time?
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rejennyrated

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April 17, 2010, 02:34:08 AM
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.
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Dana Lane

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April 17, 2010, 08:24:11 AM
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.
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shanetastic

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April 17, 2010, 01:29:39 PM
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
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