Community Based Research

Question 1

How does Anne Tagonist’s blog post draw attention to the power relations embedded in the research process?

Answer 1

• Hell, I’ve probably helped as many non-trans people finish grad school as I’ve seen trans women friends commit suicide-
• Trans people have been studied- We need data, ideas, plans and strategies, but we need to see them coming from people like us
• You are pretty much guaranteed a good life with or without my participation in your little project

Question 2

Community based research

Answer 2

• undertaking research that involves community and academic partners committing to identifying, researching, and offering solutions to the complex challenges facing communities.
• also strives to use transparent and equitable decision-making structures, open writing and publishing processes, maximum attention to the marginalization that communities face, maximum respect for community knowledge, and a full commitment to community engagement and action outcomes

Question 3

Trans Pulse Project

Answer 3

• Examines how social exclusion impacts the health of trans people
• quantitative and qualitative
• Focus groups, survey
created to respond to problems regarding access to health and social services. particularly interested in understanding the ways in which social exclusion, cisnormativity (the belief that trans identities or bodies are less authentic or “normal”), and transphobia shape the provision of services for trans people. We also want to know how these in turn may affect health. Areas that have been and will be looked at in detail are income stability, housing, relationships and family, sexual health, HIV vulnerability, mental health, community connectedness, access to social services, health care services, and hormone use”

Question 4

Social Determinants of health

Answer 4

• Accessibility to relevant health care and social services
• Harassment, discrimination and violence
• Income instability
• Housing
• Nonexistent or unenforced human rights protections

Question 5

Cisnormativity

Answer 5

• expectation that all people are cissexual, that those assigned male at birth always grow up to be men and those assigned female at birth always grow up to be women.
• shapes social activity such as child rearing, the policies and practices of individuals and institutions, and the organization of the broader social world through the ways in which people are counted and health care is organized

Question 6

Information erasure

Answer 6

• Lack of knowledge regarding trans people and trans health issues in research studies, curricula, textbooks, and among health care providers and policy makers
• Assumption that such information doesn’t exist
• lack of information on long-term worries healthwise. Here I am, I’ve had SRS- How is it all going to work in 40 years? I have no idea. Do I have to worry about breast cancer? Do I have to worry about prostate cancer?

Question 7

Institutional Erasure

Answer 7

• Cisnormativity in protocols and policies
• Erasure of trans existence
• lack of policies that accommodate trans identities or trans bodies, including the lack of knowledge that such policies are even necessary.
• This is most often apparent on referral forms, administrative intake forms, prescriptions, and other documents”

Question 8

Differential Consciousness

Answer 8

• Four forms of oppositional consciousness not mutually exclusive
• Weaving between and among oppositional ideologies
• requires a movement between various ideological positions. Such a differential movement requires the practitioner to read each situation of power and self-consciously select the best ideological position that can work against the forces of power”