Depuis les podiums des reines de beauté : se produire comme femme trans en Bolivie by Pascale Absi

“…For the participants, these events represent nothing less than a political university; getting up on stage is also a milestone in the journey that leads from hiding to a publicly embraced identity as a trans woman. Nevertheless, the desire to be recognized as equal in beauty and femininity to a Miss limits the possibility of questioning the hegemonic man/woman binary. …”
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The Edible I in Kim Fu’s For Today I Am a Boy by Veronica Austen

“…In this novel’s portrayal of Peter (see note 3), the trans woman protagonist, images of food and acts of eating (or the denial of these acts) are deployed as a meditation on the navigation of body, hence of self. …”
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A FEMININE OF NO ONE’S OWN IN CHARLOTTE TÁBUA RASA by Eider Madeiros, Letícia Simões Velloso Schuler, Mariana Pinheiro Ramalho, Hermano de França Rodrigues

“…Based on the contributions of Bento (2008), Jorge and Travassos (2018), from the brief precepts of Lacanian psychoanalysis, and on an interview with Leonardo Valente, the author of Charlotte Tábua Rasa (2016), we intend to discuss insofar how the body of a trans woman in a Brazilian politics fictional scenario would be able to draw the difficult boundaries on the discourses, possessions and the domains of language between the self and the other towards the trans-sexualities which dedicate their efforts to reinscriptions and the fissures that are celebrated through the transgressive resilience of the feminine. …”
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An expert perspective on diversity-oriented standards for assessing sex and gender in clinical research by Hannah R. Hambruch, Nora M. Laskowski, Robert-Paul Juster, Georg Halbeisen, Georgios Paslakis

“…Gender identity should be assessed with “I identify as…” and the answer categories “woman”, “man”, “nonbinary”, “trans woman”, “trans man”, “genderqueer”, “genderfluid”, “agender”, “two spirit”. …”
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Diferentes medidas de frequência fundamental e satisfação vocal de homens e mulheres transgênero by Diego Henrique da Cruz Martinho, Eric Rodrigues Dias, Ana Carolina Constantini

“…Método Estudo quantitativo observacional e transversal, com aplicação do Trans Woman Voice Questionnaire (TWVQ), gravação das vozes (vogal sustentada e fala automática) e extração de sete medidas acústicas relacionadas à posição e variabilidade da fo de pessoas transgênero. …”
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