| Title | Transpeople, transphobia and mental illness : a call for the de-pathologisation of transgenderism |
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| Authors | Winter, Stephen John |
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| Issue Date | 2006 |
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| Abstract | This short presentation outlines the experience of being transgendered ("trans") people in Asia. The speaker examines the role that the psychiatric pathologisation of transgender (the idea that it is a mental disorder) may play in the lives of trans people. Recent research in seven countries, most of them Asian, indicates the belief that trans people are mentally sick is strongly associated with transphobia. The speaker proposes the de- pathologisation of transgenderism along the lines of the recent de-pathologisation of homosexuality; specifically, the urgent removal of "gender identity disorder" and related terms from all psychiatric manuals currently in international usage |
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| Description | Live recording from a seminar organized by Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong held on 10 May, 2006
Speaker: Sam Winter |
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| Subject | Transsexualism |
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| Other Identifiers | http://evideo.lib.hku.hk/play/3571543 |
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| HKU Library Item ID | b3571543 |
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| Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/25633 |
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| DC Field | Value |
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| dc.contributor.editor | Winter, Stephen John |
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| dc.creator | University of Hong Kong. Faculty of Education |
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| dc.date.accessioned | 2006-06-28T04:43:30Z |
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| dc.date.available | 2006-06-28T04:43:30Z |
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| dc.date.issued | 2006 |
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| dc.description.abstract | This short presentation outlines the experience of being transgendered ("trans") people in Asia. The speaker examines the role that the psychiatric pathologisation of transgender (the idea that it is a mental disorder) may play in the lives of trans people. Recent research in seven countries, most of them Asian, indicates the belief that trans people are mentally sick is strongly associated with transphobia. The speaker proposes the de- pathologisation of transgenderism along the lines of the recent de-pathologisation of homosexuality; specifically, the urgent removal of "gender identity disorder" and related terms from all psychiatric manuals currently in international usage |
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| dc.description.nature | Published_or_final_version |
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| dc.description | Live recording from a seminar organized by Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong held on 10 May, 2006 |
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| dc.description | Speaker: Sam Winter |
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| dc.format.extent | 1 videodisc (82 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in |
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| dc.format.extent | 376 bytes |
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| dc.format.mimetype | video/x-ms-wmv |
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| dc.format.mimetype | text/html |
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| dc.identifier.hkul | b3571543 |
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| dc.identifier | http://evideo.lib.hku.hk/play/3571543 |
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| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/25633 |
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| dc.language | eng |
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| dc.relation.ispartof | http://evideo.lib.hku.hk |
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| dc.rights | HKU students and staff only |
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| dc.subject.ddc | 305.3 T77 W |
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| dc.subject.lcsh | Transsexualism |
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| dc.title | Transpeople, transphobia and mental illness : a call for the de-pathologisation of transgenderism |
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| dc.type | Moving_Image |
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