In addition to social determinants and cognitive constructions of social identities emphasized
by earlier theoretical frameworks, transgender theory emphasizes the importance of physical …

ABSTRACT In September 2018, transgender YouTuber Natalie Wynn (aka ContraPoints)
released “The Aesthetic,” a video in which she explored the social pressure placed on trans …

This roundtable began as the first panel of the International Communication Association
dedicated exclusively to transgender studies. The articles of the panel investigated various …

This chapter reviews extant research on the lifespan development of diversity in sexual and
gender identity and expression. We focus primarily on the developmental experiences of …

The institutionalization of transgender studies as a field comes just as the academy has
decided that “fields” are a less relevant and more cumbersome aspect of professional …

Social, cultural, and political ideologies have a significant impact on gender policies. In
traditional societies, gender identities beyond those determined by an individual's biological …

Media activists have long believed in the power of representation and visibility as tools for
social justice (Billard, 2024b; Gross, 2001). The media advocacy organization GLAAD, for …

Over the last two decades, there has been an increasing coverage of transgender people in
Latin American and Spanish media. However, there are very few research studies that …

Transition Games argues that playing with the rules of videogames can give frameworks to
think about the make-up of other systems of rules, such as the rules of gender. Through play …

Despite vast scholarship on LGBTQ+ fashion, within fashion studies there is still a relative
lack of engagement with transgender identities and epistemologies.'Transgender …