scholarly journals Perceptions of Barriers to and Facilitators of Participation in Health Research Among Transgender People

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 187-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashli A. Owen-Smith ◽  
Cory Woodyatt ◽  
R. Craig Sineath ◽  
Enid M. Hunkeler ◽  
La Tasha Barnwell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Research ◽  
Transgender People

scholarly journals Following Tanya’s Lead: The Mirage and Hope of Social Medicine Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Joshua Franklin
Keyword(s):  
Health Research ◽  
Transgender Women ◽  
Social Medicine ◽  
Collaborative Relationships ◽  
Transgender People ◽  
Medicine Research ◽  
National Hiv Behavioral Surveillance ◽  
Control And Prevention ◽  
Hiv Research ◽  
Research Initiatives

Entrenched structural inequalities raise challenging questions of how socially-oriented research initiatives are likely to improve health for marginalised people. The recent inclusion of transgender women in the National HIV Behavioral Surveillance (NHBS), an ongoing initiative funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to study the HIV epidemic in the US, is designed to redress the exclusion of transgender people from past HIV research and to confront the disproportionate burden of HIV on transgender women through the production of specific knowledge about HIV risk factors in this population. The hope is that such research will ameliorate the burden of HIV among transgender women. Building on a decade-long ethnographic engagement with transgender activists and health practitioners, I delve into tensions between the health research that sustains this horizon of hope and what I call the ‘mirage’ of social medicine research. My interlocutors call out this mirage of scientific optimism in which ‘all the answers are already known’, suggesting that health research oriented towards social justice simply begets more research. Nonetheless, my interlocutors engaged with me, a physician-anthropologist trainee, in order to insist on the ethical necessity of including transgender people in health research even as they exposed the limits of such inclusion and, more broadly, the limits of medicine’s power to redress social injustice. We should follow their lead, embracing neither futility and hopelessness nor the mirage of medical salvation, in order to build collaborative relationships in the service of a more caring social medicine.

Inclusion of Transgender Voice and Communication Training in a University Clinic

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (10) ◽  
pp. 109-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Oates ◽  
Georgia Dacakis
Keyword(s):  
Training Program ◽  
Clinical Education ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Communication Training ◽  
Speech Language Pathology ◽  
Transgender People ◽  
Language Pathology ◽  
Effectiveness Of Training ◽  
Negative Impacts

Because of the increasing number of transgender people requesting speech-language pathology services, because having gender-incongruent voice and communication has major negative impacts on an individual's social participation and well-being, and because voice and communication training is supported by an improving evidence-base, it is becoming more common for universities to include transgender-specific theoretical and clinical components in their speech-language pathology programs. This paper describes the theoretical and clinical education provided to speech-language pathology students at La Trobe University in Australia, with a particular focus on the voice and communication training program offered by the La Trobe Communication Clinic. Further research is required to determine the outcomes of the clinic's training program in terms of student confidence and competence as well as the effectiveness of training for transgender clients.

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