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This chapter introduces the first national study on Australian FtM transgender peoples’ experiences. It argues that whilst FtM transgender people have been less “visible” in Australian culture and media in the past, this is changing with the advent of recent reality shows and websites. It discusses how increased advocacy in the last decade has secured greater recognition of the right to non-discrimination on the basis of gender identity in international human rights law and local Australian laws, and significant developments around the classification of gender identity-based diagnoses. Nevertheless there is a lack of research on transgender people, and existing studies were typically conducted in medical environments, subsumed FtM transgender people into broader populations or focussed on MtF people. The chapter outlines the theoretical frames used in such research, and explains the researchers’ preference for a more post-modern framing that foregrounds the experiences of FtM transgender people in their own understandings.
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Overarching stories about history or reality based on universalist notions of truth, which overlook alternative perspectives.
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Examples of these problems (given in critique of the paradigm) are class- and sex-based struggles.
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Central to critiques reliant on universal structures, for example, Marxist and radical feminist criticisms.
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Jones, T., del Pozo de Bolger, A., Dune, T., Lykins, A., Hawkes, G. (2015). Introduction. In: Female-to-Male (FtM) Transgender People’s Experiences in Australia. SpringerBriefs in Sociology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13829-9_1
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