Life Histories of the Transformed: Identities on the Gender and Sexual Border

我们已经成功地将我们的数据转录出来，我们的团队成员也与其他研究人员进行了类似的研究合作。我们还继续关注我们在社交媒体上的主要消息来源之一的工作。这种深刻的洞察力让我们看到了个人层面的转变和理解如何通过性别影响一个人生活的多个领域。人们通常认为性别是个人的或心理上的东西，然而，在采访了我们的来源并查看了转录的数据后，我们可以看到，这种程度的个人理解对我们在日常生活中如何与其他人合作有着强烈的影响。这也给了我们一个难得的机会，让我们看到一些人有机会进行个人性别探索，并将其与他们在工作和职业方面的长期成长结合起来。我们相信这在日本是一个相当罕见的现象，我们非常感谢我们的线人与我们分享这种个人的成长水平。此外，我们中的许多人都找到了不同的机会在会议和其他论坛上发言，这些会议和论坛符合我们的总体目标，即探索那些发现自己生活在传统二元性别位置边界上的个人的生活史。这些合作使我们有机会与新的受众分享我们的研究，也使我们有机会发表我们已经接受的文章。

We have managed to get our data transcribed and our team members have done work to collaborate with other researchers also doing similar research. We have also continued to follow the work of one of our main sources on social media. This deep level of insight has allowed us to see how a personal level of transformation and understanding through gender can affect multiple areas of one's life. It is quite common to think of gender as being something that is personal or within the psyche, however after interviewing our source and looking at the transcribed data we can see that this level of personal understanding has strong impacts in how we work with other people in our day-to-day lives. It also gives us a rare chance to look at someone who has been given the opportunity to take their personal gender explorations and combine it with their long term growth in terms of work and career. We believe this to be a fairly rare phenomenon in Japan and feel much gratitude towards our informant for sharing with us this personal level of growth.Additionally, many of us have found different opportunities to present at conferences and other forums that match our overall goals of exploring the life histories of individuals who find themselves living at the borders of traditional binary gender positions. These collaborations have led to opportunities to share our research with new audiences and also have resulted in publication opportunities which we have accepted.