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了下来，我们的团队成员已经完成了与其他也在进行类似研究的研究人员合作的工作。我们还继续关注我们在社交媒体上的一个主要来源的工作。这种深刻的洞察力让我们看到了个人层面的转变和对性别的理解如何影响一个人生活的多个领域。将性别视为个人或心理上的东西是很常见的，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，这种个人理解水平对我们在日常生活中如何与他人合作有着强烈的影响。这也给了我们一个难得的机会，让我们看看那些有机会进行个人性别探索的人，并将其与他们在工作和职业方面的长期增长结合起来。我们相信这在日本是一种相当罕见的现象，并非常感谢我们的线人与我们分享了个人的成长水平。此外，我们中的许多人找到了不同的机会在会议和其他论坛上发言，这些机会符合我们的总体目标，即探索生活在传统二元性别立场边缘的人的生活史。这些合作带来了与新受众分享我们研究成果的机会，也带来了出版的机会，我们已经接受了这些机会。

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.