Female-to-Male (FtM) Transgender People’s Experiences in by Tiffany Jones, Andrea del Pozo de Bolger, Tinashe Dune, Amy

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By Tiffany Jones, Andrea del Pozo de Bolger, Tinashe Dune, Amy Lykins, Gail Hawkes

This Briefs is the 1st nationwide learn on female-to-male (FtM) transgender people’s stories in Australia. It describes an in depth learn that fills the present hole in Australian examine at the particular studies and ideology approximately transition for modern Australian FtM transgender humans. Following an outline of present literature at the quite a few elements of and methods to transgender matters, this briefs describes intimately the layout, contributors and findings of the examine. The Briefs bargains important data and tales concerning contributors' identities, schooling, well-being, sexual and social lives. It ends with innovations to all these operating within the numerous workplaces and associations that FtM transgender humans stumble upon of their way of life, and represents and precious source for researchers, provider prone and gender assorted groups alike.

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Several participants utilised the opportunity to make suggestions about how FtM transgender Australians should/could be constructed in this report and why this would/would not be useful. As another measure to allow participants extra control over how they were constructed, we afforded all forum bloggers the opportunity to choose their own pseudonym. They could choose words, false names or numbers of their own making, which could be used to express their gender adequately and appropriately, or perhaps to particularly offer ambiguity/extra anonymity (in the case of numbers).

Zane (male, 41 years), said “I was aware from a very early age, although it didn’t distress me greatly until I hit puberty. It was easier to fantasise as a child that I would naturally grow up to be male”. Their early feelings of difference, magical thinking and daydreaming, and early attempts at “making the change” reflected the themes in the international research (Pazos 2000). For these participants the emergence of female secondary sexual characteristics during puberty was quite traumatic. It brought a strong sense of disgust, embarrassment, withdrawal, isolation and consequent depression.

This design allowed participants to give feedback on, and co-create, the topics and questions—to increase their ownership of the project and how they were to be presented. Participants were recruited through a range of recruitment techniques, including paid advertising, support groups and services, Facebook posts, e-lists, media interviews and so on. The study’s design and recruitment processes were informed by a reference group including a diverse range of FtM transgender Australian individuals, and feedback from key organisations.

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