Beschreibung:
Addressing urgent challenges and debates in trans health, this book interweaves patient voices with social theory and autobiography, offering an innovative look at how shifting language, patient mistrust, waiting lists and professional power shape clinical encounters, and exploring what a better future might look like for trans patients.
Part One: The context of care;Introduction: coming to terms with trans health;
Condition or movement? A genealogy of trans discourse;
Trans health in practice: conditions of care;
Part Two: Navigating health services;
(Re)defining trans;
Trans temporalities: imagining a future in the time of anticipation;
Part Three: Changing trans health;
The politics of trans health: negotiating credible knowledge;
Towards affirmative care.