20219 - Transgender and Queer Embodiments

Description

This session invites papers that examine how transgender and queer embodiments are being reshaped, regulated, and resisted amid escalating political attacks and institutional exclusions. In recent years, federal policies have prohibited “gender ideology” content, restricted access to gender-affirming care, banned transgender participation in sports, and curtailed trans people’s mobility through passport and documentation changes. These state-sanctioned assaults on bodily autonomy underscore how trans and queer bodies remain central to contemporary struggles over citizenship, belonging, and expertise. We welcome papers that engage the politics of exclusion in sports, schools and education, and bathrooms, as well as analyses of medicine, gender-affirming care, and the contested role of expertise in defining “legitimate” embodiment. We particularly encourage work centering trans youth, trans people of color, and community and solidarity networks that sustain access to medication, care, and collective survival across borders. All methodological approaches and research sites are welcome.

Sub Unit

• Sociology of the Body and Embodiment Section / Transgender and Queer Embodiments

Session Organizers

• Jinsun Yang, University of Oregon

• David J. Hutson, Pennsylvania State University-Abington