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Transgender Awareness Week

Transgender Awareness Week is a week when transgender people and their allies share their stories and reflect on their experience and challenge discrimination.

To help raise the visibility of transgender people we have curated a selection of books, free journal content and Transforming Society articles

To mark the week we will send you a FREE eBook copy of Non-Binary Genders: Navigating Communities, Identities and Health Care by Ben Vincent when you sign up to our Gender mailing list if you haven't done so yet.

Read the introductions to the following books for FREE on BUP Digital:
Queer Politics in Contemporary Turkey
Transgender in the Post-Yugoslav Space
Non-Binary Genders
Sex/Gender and Self-Determination
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Health Inequalities
Understanding Trans Health
Queering Criminology in Theory and Praxis
HIV, Sex and Sexuality in Later Life

Find out about these and other titles below.

Get 50% off all our LGBTQ+ rights books by using code TVIS2022 before midnight on 20 November.

Transgender visibility article collection

All of the articles listed here are free to access until 21 November 2022. 

European Journal of Politics and Gender
Revisiting gender-neutral policy from a trans perspective: a look at Northern Ireland
Jamie J. Hagen, Maria-Adriana Deiana and Danielle Roberts

Trans* voting: demand and supply side of trans* politics in Germany
Michael Hunklinger and Niklas Ferch

Lessons on opportunity hoarding and gender binarism: building an alliance of women’s, trans and intersex movements
Angelika von Wahl

Not that niche: making room for the study of LGBTIQ people in political science [Open Access] 
Phillip M. Ayoub

Rainbows and traffic lights: queer voters at the German ballot box
Stuart J. Turnbull-Dugarte

The substantive representation of social groups: towards a new comparative research agenda
Silvia Erzeel and Ekaterina Rashkova

Dividing between ‘us’ and ‘them’: the framing of gender and sexuality by online followers of the Dutch populist radical right
Ruud Fiers and Jasper Muis

Journal of Gender-Based Violence
Sexual victimisation of transgender people in the Netherlands: prevalence, risk factors and health consequences
Marianne Cense, Stans de Haas and Tamar Doorduin

Inter-sibling violence as a mechanism of hegemony: retrospective accounts from a non-binary and LGBTQ+ sample in the United States
Katherine Martinez and Courtney McDonald

Critical and Radical Social Work
Supporting transgender survivors of sexual violence: learning from users’ experiences
Sally Rymer and Valentina Cartei

Global Discourse
‘The stigma of Western words’: asylum law, transgender identity and sexual orientation in South Africa
B Camminga

International Journal of Care and Caring
From villain to hero: trans men and non-binary persons as care providers in Southern Europe
Ana Cristina Santos

On Transforming Society

For researchers, asking about gender is harder than it looks
Dan Cassino and Yasemin Besen-Cassino

Beyond the binary: The quest for new approaches to measuring gender in social science research
Amy Alexander, Catherine Bolzendahl and Lena Wängnerud

Towards a less pathologising life for trans people
Zowie Davy

Defending LGBTQ+ youth rights against spin dictatorship
Madelaine Adelman and Eliza Byard

The role of emotions in Vietnamese LGBTQ activism
Yên Mai