This project will examine how trans activism in Southern California benefiting certain groups of transgender individuals might create new marginality and vulnerability for other groups of transgend
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These are the events of particular importance to this project, from both an etic and emic perspective.
This is a critical analysis of the interacting hegemonies shaping the ground on which this project will be based.
These are types of data to be collected during this study.
These are research questions of the study and interview questions to be asked during interviews with professionals.
This article brings forth the idea of “structural violence.” This develops the argument that in areas in poverty people to not have access to the treatments or medication they may need and in denying people treatment/ medications disease will continue to spread and worsen. The article argues that providing healthcare to those who can’t afford it not only increases their life expectancy but decreases transmission rates and can potentially lead to the eradication of certain diseases.
The main argument was that there are "biosocial phenomena" or "structural violence" that lead to the tendency for certain diseases or lack of treatment in populations, particularly those in poverty. Their three major findings were: they can make structural interventions to "decrease the extent to which social inequities become embodied as health inequities", proximal interventions can reduce premature morbidity and mortality, and structural interventions "can have an enormous impact on outcomes.
This is the Abstract of “California at Risk: Vulnerabilities for Transgender Individuals in Southern California."