The Sick Trans Person

Negotiations, Healthcare, and the Tension of Demedicalization

Evelyn Callahan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

160 Seiten

2026
Policy Press (Verlag)
978-1-4473-7111-3 (ISBN)

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Healthcare for transgender people is in crisis. Many of the problems stem from bureaucracies within the health system, limiting conceptualizations of sex and gender, and the requirement for a diagnosis of ‘gender dysphoria’.

This book presents a unique argument for full demedicalization of transness as a crucial step towards removing existing barriers to good healthcare. Resisting the current norm of separating sex and gender, it also argues for an understanding of them as necessarily interlinked and co-constructed.

By elevating trans voices and experiences, this book offers a new perspective on transness, medicalization and research methodologies to help trans people, practitioners and policy makers better understand the barriers faced by trans people when seeking healthcare.

Evelyn Callahan is Research Fellow at University College London. Their research interests include trans healthcare, healthcare in resource limited settings and applied qualitative research methods.

Introduction

1. Trans Methodology

2. Models of Sex and Gender

3. Re-understanding Sex and Gender

4. Medicalization

5. Bureaucracy, Time and Space

6. Pedagogy and TransLiteracy

Conclusion

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.3.2026
Zusatzinfo	Not illustrated
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
ISBN-10	1-4473-7111-9 / 1447371119
ISBN-13	978-1-4473-7111-3 / 9781447371113
Zustand	Neuware