Transgender men's self-representations of bearing children post-transition

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dc.contributor.authorRiggs, Damien Wayne
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-08T04:15:08Z
dc.date.available2015-12-08T04:15:08Z
dc.date.issued2013-09
dc.descriptionChapter reproduced here with permission from the publisher.en
dc.description.abstractSince reports of Thomas Beatie’s pregnancy appeared in the media in 2008, the visibility of transgender men having children post-transition has increased considerably. Whilst this visibility, it may be argued, has attracted negative attention to transgender men who choose to bear a child (and transgender men more broadly), it may also be argued that representations of transgender men bearing children have usefully drawn attention to the complex negotiations that transgender men undertake in having children. At the heart of these negotiations lies what is often framed as a competition between transgender men’s masculinity, and their undertaking of a role historically undertaken by people who identify as women (i.e., child bearing). Yet what is repeatedly demonstrated in transgender men’s own self-representations of their pregnancies post-transition, is that they are very much men, even if their masculinity is placed in question by a society that equates child bearing with women. The present chapter takes transgender men’s self-representations as its starting place in seeking to elaborate how such men reconcile their masculinity with child bearing.en
dc.identifier.citationRiggs, D.W., 2013. Transgender men’s self-representations of bearing children post-transition. In Green, F. & Friedman, M. (Eds.) Chasing rainbows: Exploring gender fluid parenting practices. Toronto: Demeter Press.en
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-927335-18-5
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2328/35786
dc.language.isoen
dc.oaire.license.condition.licenseIn Copyright
dc.publisherDemeter Pressen
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dc.rights.holder(C) Demeter Pressen
dc.subjectSocial worken
dc.subjectPsychologyen
dc.subjectSexuality and genderen
dc.subjectParenthooden
dc.titleTransgender men's self-representations of bearing children post-transitionen
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local.contributor.authorOrcidLookupRiggs, Damien Wayne: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0961-9099en_US
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