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

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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.