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Trans Individuals Lived Experiences of Harm

Gender, Identity and Recognition

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  • © 2023

Overview

  • Challenges conventional understandings of anti-trans hate by offering a historically grounded theorisation
  • Draws on narratives taken from older trans people whose voices are rarely heard
  • Speaks to those interested in victimology, hate studies and trans studies especially

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology (PSVV)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

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About this book

This book explores how neoliberal consumer capitalist ideals of meritocracy, competitive individualism, and responsibilisation have shaped trans people’s subjectivity and lived experiences of harm. The book critiques the adequacy of legal constructs of hate crime to acknowledge the social harms experienced. The deep ethnographic data illuminates a variety of social harms that result from the failure of social structures and systems to acknowledge gender identities beyond the binary. The book offers a historically grounded theorisation of anti-trans sentiment to produce a persuasive argument for understanding the harms of hate as recognitive harms. In this sense, the book opens up a path to theorizing the empirically documented emotional and psychological harms of both transphobia and transnormative ideals, as rooted in a binary gender order that has been invigorated by the hyper individualism and competitiveness of capitalist neoliberalism. 

 

Reviews

Katie McBride provides a timely and insightful analysis of the social harms experienced by transgender people as a result of denying them the fulfilment of social beings’ need for recognition. Significantly, the book locates these harms within a structural context, specifically the inflexible and exclusionary character of legal and cultural frameworks for gender recognition. This book is a must-read for scholars, activists and practitioners who want to better understand how the contemporary experiences of transgender people are shaped by the dual influences of neoliberal values and the gender binary. (Professor Amanda Haynes, European Centre for the Study of Hate, University of Limerick, Ireland)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Criminology, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK

    Katie McBride

About the author

Katie McBride is Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Plymouth, UK. Before joining academia, Katie was an equality and human rights practitioner working within the public and third sectors on the development and delivery of policy and practice designed to address inequalities and discrimination experienced by marginalised communities. Her key research interests lie in examining hate from a critical perspective with a particular focus on the harms of hate experienced by trans individuals. Katie’s research utilises deep ethnographic participatory methods as a tool to redress the balance of power in research and academia. Her research has explored how adverse childhood experiences, communities of support and structures of governance have impacted on the lived experience of trans individuals.

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