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This chapter provides a background to the changing landscape in relation to transgender people and education, including documenting the increase in publications in this area and considering the rise in both support and anti-gender campaigns. The chapter also outlines the language and theoretical concepts used in the book, including the concept of cisgenderism.

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    We use the phrases “anti-gender campaigns” and “anti-gender ideology” in this book as this is how much of this action is being discussed (e.g. Bracke and Paternotte 2016; Köttig et al. 2017; Kováts and Põim 2015; Kuhar and Paternotte 2017; Rasmussen 2017). However, we note that these views are about being against the idea that gender is socially constructed and, at times, more specifically about being anti-gender diversity.

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Bartholomaeus, C., Riggs, D.W. (2017). Introduction. In: Transgender People and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95309-7_1

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