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From Transnormativity to Self-Authenticity: Shifting Away From a Dysphoria-Centered Approach to Transgender Identity

LaValley, Matty
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4488-3189
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin162513493136327

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2021, BA, Oberlin College, Gender Sexuality and Feminist Studies.
"Transnormativity" is a social ideology concerning the validity and perceived "realness" of transgender individuals and identities. In this thesis, I investigate current transgender issues through the lens of transgender medicalization and its resulting sociocultural impacts, prioritizing trans identities and individuals that surpass binary categorizations. Under transnormativity, nonbinary gender identity is continually made invisible and unintelligible in both popular and trans discourse, however, nonbinary users of social media find creative means to express their authentic sense of self nonetheless. The resulting implications of such work to socially, culturally, and psychologically resist and deconstruct transnormativity.
Greggor Mattson (Advisor)
KJ Cerankowski (Committee Member)
Patrick O'Connor (Committee Member)
98 p.
Gender Studies
Transgender; Trans; Nonbinary; Medicalization; Dysphoria; Euphoria; Self-authenticity; Transnormativity

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  • LaValley, M. (2021). From Transnormativity to Self-Authenticity: Shifting Away From a Dysphoria-Centered Approach to Transgender Identity [Undergraduate thesis, Oberlin College]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin162513493136327

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • LaValley, Matty. From Transnormativity to Self-Authenticity: Shifting Away From a Dysphoria-Centered Approach to Transgender Identity. 2021. Oberlin College, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin162513493136327.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • LaValley, Matty. "From Transnormativity to Self-Authenticity: Shifting Away From a Dysphoria-Centered Approach to Transgender Identity." Undergraduate thesis, Oberlin College, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin162513493136327

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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