Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People

By Viviane Namaste. 2000

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On the Margins: A Study of the Experiences of Transgender College Students (2005, background): “These feelings of confusion are widely reported in the literature on transgender and gender-variant people (Brevard, 2001; Cromwell, 1999; Devor, 1997; Feinberg, 1996; Feinberg, 1998; Namaste, 2000; Pauly, 1998).”
Cisgenderism in psychology: pathologising and misgendering children from 1999 to 2008 (2012, background): “More recently, other authors have addressed erasure (Namaste, 2000), maligning language (Winters, 2008) and pathologising (Namaste, 2000; Serano, 2007; Winters, 2008) of participants’ genders.”
The Misgendering Machines (2018, background): “Trans people are simply not considered (i.e. erased) in much of public life and contemporary understandings of the world [68].”
Family Rejection, Social Isolation, and Loneliness as Predictors of Negative Health Outcomes (Depression, Suicidal Ideation, and Sexual Risk Behavior) Among Thai Male-to-Female Transgender Adolescents (2014, background): “It is an umbrella term that describes a wide range of gender-variant groups and individuals, from those who engage in transgender behavior on occasion, such as cross-dressers, to those who do so at all times (Namaste, 2000).”
Heterosexuals’ Attitudes Toward Transgender People: Findings from a National Probability Sample of U.S. Adults (2013, background): “Indeed, negative views of transgender people have long been posited to reflect a belief that transgender people are deceiving themselves and others by pretending to be something they are not (e.g., Raymond 1979; for a critique, see Namaste 2000).”
Revisiting Gendered Web Forms: An Evaluation of Gender Inputs with (Non-)Binary People (2021, background): “Alongside a binary and normative gender construction is the reifcation of “otherness” through infrastructure: paper and digital documentation that restricts whose gender is valid, whose gender is objectively ”real” [31, 66, 69].”
How We've Taught Algorithms to See Identity: Constructing Race and Gender in Image Databases for Facial Analysis (2020, background): “Namaste similarly critiques the overly philosophized perspective on gender, centering trans people’s lived and embodied experiences which are often erased, or made invisible, from gendered theory [118].”
Studying trans: recommendations for ethical recruitment and collaboration with transgender participants in academic research (2018, background): “It has taken significant time to debunk this work as seriously methodologically flawed (Moser, 2010; Namaste, 2000; Richards et al., 2015; Serano, 2010; Veale, Clarke, & Lomax, 2012).”
Gender violence revisited: Lessons from violent victimization of transgender identified individuals (2013, background): “With few exceptions (Namaste, 2000; Valentine, 2007) most of the existing research has been conducted in metropolitan areas using quantitative measures.”
Guidelines for psychological practice with transgender and gender nonconforming people. (2015, unknown): “As TGNC research increases, some TGNC communities may experience being oversampled in particular geographic areas and/or TGNC people of color may not be well-represented in TGNC studies (Hwahng & Lin, 2009; Namaste, 2000).”
“I Don't Think This Is Theoretical; This Is Our Lives”: How Erasure Impacts Health Care for Transgender People (2009, background): “Numerous needs assessments and research studies published to date have consistently indicated the numerous and interlocking challenges that trans people experience in their dayto-day lives (Kenagy, 2005; Namaste, 2000; Sperber, Landers, & Lawrence, 2005; Taylor, 2006).”
Doing Gender Beyond the Binary: A Virtual Ethnography (2017, background): “Indeed, Transgender Studies scholars have noted a significant rift within the transgender community, between those who desire to “pass” as men and women and those who reject the gender binary altogether (Namaste 2000; Roen 2002).”
Depression in Male-to-Female Transgender Ontarians: Results from the Trans PULSE Project (2011, background): “Erasure—“a defining condition of how transsexuality is managed in culture and institutions, a condition that ultimately inscribes transsexuality as impossible” (Namaste, 2000)—may further contribute to barriers in accessing housing, employment, and social services (Bauer et al., 2009).”
‘This was my hell’: the violence experienced by gender non‐conforming youth in US high schools (2004, background): “Unlike much previous writing on transgender, it begins with the everyday lives of gender-variant teenagers and attempts both to present and to analyze their experiences (Namaste 2000).”