You said that "the significant majority of all research is about trans women" - can you share where you got that information? Maybe it's apples to oranges, but when I look at gender studies programs or academic conferences etc. around transness in general I see so little representation of trans women, so it's curious to me that the research might outweigh the representation. Thanks!
You said that "the significant majority of all research is about trans women" - can you share where you got that information? Maybe it's apples to oranges, but when I look at gender studies programs or academic conferences etc. around transness in general I see so little representation of trans women, so it's curious to me that the research might outweigh the representation. Thanks!
So, there's a big gap between representation of trans folks in Women's and Gender Studies programs *as researchers* and our appearance as participants *in biomedical research*. Most, if not all, of the classic studies on HRT and trans behavior focused overwhelmingly or exclusively on trans women, to the exclusion of everybody else. Much other research that *was* gender-inclusive significantly overrepresented trans women to trans men, even when the researchers tried to be inclusive. This is a good example: 78 trans women are included, compared to only 44 trans men, an almost 2:1 disparity:
You said that "the significant majority of all research is about trans women" - can you share where you got that information? Maybe it's apples to oranges, but when I look at gender studies programs or academic conferences etc. around transness in general I see so little representation of trans women, so it's curious to me that the research might outweigh the representation. Thanks!
So, there's a big gap between representation of trans folks in Women's and Gender Studies programs *as researchers* and our appearance as participants *in biomedical research*. Most, if not all, of the classic studies on HRT and trans behavior focused overwhelmingly or exclusively on trans women, to the exclusion of everybody else. Much other research that *was* gender-inclusive significantly overrepresented trans women to trans men, even when the researchers tried to be inclusive. This is a good example: 78 trans women are included, compared to only 44 trans men, an almost 2:1 disparity:
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