Self-Made Men: Identity and Embodiment among Transsexual Men

By Henry S. Rubin. 2003

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Deconstructing the complex perceptions of gender roles, gender identity, and sexual orientation among transgender individuals (2012, background): “Nevertheless, Rubin (2003) found that becoming a lesbian was part of the developmental process for over half of the female-to-male transsexuals inter-viewed, but that most of these individuals nevertheless did not feel that being a lesbian was consistent with their gender identity, i.e. that having…”
Beyond the Gender Binary: A Case Study of Two Transgender Students at a Midwestern Research University (2005, background): “An increasing number of studies of transgender people have been published in recent years (Denny, 1998; Devor, 1997; Lev, 2004; Rubin, 2003), but few of these works explore how youth come to identify as transgender, or propose a healthy, non-pathologized model of transgender identity development.”
Hegemonic masculinity and the variability of gay-sounding speech: The perceived sexuality of transgender men (2013, background): “Indeed, sexuality plays an important role in trans men’s gender identity management, as authors like Vidal-Ortiz (2002) and Rubin (2003) have described, and identification with queer sexualities provides trans men who are only attracted to women a means of distancing themselves from heteronormative…”