Caught between the binary : Exploring dominant representations of detransitioned people across digital platforms and publications

夹在二元之间：探索数字平台和出版物中变性者的主导表现

• 批准号: 2873127
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Nottingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2873127
• 关键词: Caught; between; binary; Exploring; dominant

A contested term, detransition broadly refers to the process of undergoing a gender transition - via medical, legal or social means- before reverting to the assigned gender at birth. Digital discourse has increasingly played a role in shaping polarised narratives surrounding detransition, creating platforms used by detransitioners to evidence claims about gender identity, informed consent, and human rights. The impact of these discussions is not confined to the digital sphere: detransition has already influenced controversial legislative decisions surrounding transgender healthcare, notably Bell v Tavistock in 2020, and the 2022 Florida Board of Medicine ruling against youth transition.Existing detransition literature has, however, prioritised detransition as an individual process, rather than a sociocultural phenomenon. Hence, this project will explore the role of digital spaces- both formal publications and informal social media platforms- in constructing narratives of detransition. The research aims to answer: How is detransition constructed in online discourse? And, How can these prevailing narratives be situated in a broader sociocultural context? Data will include news publications. Articles will be purposively sampled from periods surrounding both Bell v Tavistock and the Florida Medical Board Ruling to provide a comparative timeframe; as well as, TikTok videos and Twitter debates using strategic sampling to identify the most 'liked' content. Analysis will initially code data using the concepts of risk and need, with an 'open-coding' method used to refine these as research progresses. Hildebrand-Chupp's (2020) and Exposito-Campos' (2021) typologies of detransition will be used as a conceptual basis combined with a realist approach to thematic analysis to ensure focus on the underlying contextual factors behind representations of detransition.

去变性是一个有争议的术语，广义上指在恢复到出生时指定的性别之前，通过医疗、法律或社会手段进行性别转换的过程。数字话语在塑造围绕去变性的两极分化叙事方面发挥了越来越大的作用，为去变性者创造了平台，以证明有关性别认同、知情同意和人权的主张。这些讨论的影响并不局限于数字领域：变性已经影响了围绕变性医疗保健的有争议的立法决定，特别是2020年的贝尔诉塔维斯托克案，以及2022年佛罗里达州医学委员会对青少年变性的裁决。然而，现有的去转型文献将去转型视为一种个人过程，而不是一种社会文化现象。因此，本项目将探讨数字空间——包括正式出版物和非正式社交媒体平台——在构建去转型叙事中的作用。本研究旨在回答：去转型是如何在网络话语中建构的？这些流行的叙事如何被置于更广泛的社会文化背景中？数据将包括新闻出版物。文章将有目的地从贝尔诉塔维斯托克案和佛罗里达医学委员会裁决前后的时期取样，以提供一个比较的时间框架；此外，抖音视频和推特辩论使用战略抽样来确定最“喜欢”的内容。分析将首先使用风险和需求的概念对数据进行编码，并使用“开放编码”方法随着研究的进展对其进行改进。Hildebrand-Chupp（2020）和Exposito-Campos（2021）的去转型类型将被用作概念基础，并结合现实主义的主题分析方法，以确保关注去转型表现背后的潜在语境因素。