Hey y’all! I’m really looking forward to this year’s Philadelphia Trans Health Conference in June. I’ve actually never been but have wanted to for the past 3 or 4 years. And now not only do I get to go, but I’ll be involved in a workshop and I’ll be presenting some early findings from the research survey you all so helpfully circulated.
There are a lot of really great presentations that I’m excited about, but I thought I would give you all info on the workshops my research and advocacy/activism lab at University of Louisville is involved in.
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Okay first of all, one of my colleagues and I will be presenting our research at the Graduate Student Research Symposium, which is on June 15 and is divided into two sessions, 8:45-10:10 & 10:25-11:40.
My presentation is based on analyses Dr. Budge and I conducted on the data I collected in January and February, and is titled Transgender Identity Integration as a Factor in the Emotional Well-being of Post-transition Individuals.
My colleague, Kinton Rossman, will be presenting their research in a presentation titled “Just Because I Commanded That Respect - I Got the Privilege”: Qualitative Examination of Privilege in the Trans* Community.
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Workshops are listed below in chronological order:
This is last you will hear about this survey I PROMISE. The Survey Will Close February 17!!
Participation has been really amazing so far and because of people’s thoughtful answers, it looks like even more research will come out of this than originally planned. For example, I may in the future be able to do qualitative analysis on some of the responses to questions like how someone defines a gender transition.
So if you participate your answers will likely be informing a really wide range of research and publications about identity, transition, and more! Please see the recruitment email below and if you’d be ever so kind as to circulate this on social networking sites today, maybe we can get a nice spike in the final two days. The more people who participate the more representative this work will be!
Thank you again to everyone who has participated and/or helped spread the word.
—UPDATE: SURVEY WILL CLOSE ON FEBRUARY 17—
To Whom It May Concern:
My name is Sebastian Barr and I am currently conducting a research project under the supervision of Dr. Stephanie Budge as part of my doctoral program. This project explores well-being in individuals who have undergone a gender transition (including but not limited to people who identify as female, male, genderqueer, transgender female, transgender male, stealth, binary, non-binary). To qualify for the study, participants must have undergone some degree of a social and/or medical gender transition (for many participants this can be phrased as living as a gender different from the sex they were assigned at birth) and be over the age of 18. Participation involves completing an online questionnaire that will take approximately 10-15 minutes to complete.
The information collected may or may not benefit you directly; however, you will have the opportunity to reflect on a range of life experiences and emotions (both seemingly related and unrelated to transition). Some people may find this to be helpful. Additionally, the information learned in this study may be helpful to others in understanding how different approaches to individuals’ identities can result in higher levels of well-being. This could lead to important applications in therapy and counseling.
It is important to us that the research reflects the wide range of identities and experiences of those who have gone through a gender transition, so we strongly encourage the participation of individuals who are often left out of other studies, e.g., those who live stealth or do not identify as transgender and people with non-binary identities.
If you are interested in being a part of this study, you can complete the questionnaire here:http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TransitionAndIdentityStudy.
If you have any questions, please contact Sebastian Barr at smbarr01@louisville.edu or Stephanie Budge,slbudg01@louisville.edu.
Thank you,
Sebastian Mitchell Barr
Doctoral Student, Counseling Psychology
Educational and Counseling Psychology
University of Louisville
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Hello everyone! I successfully survived my first semester as a doctoral student and have already been launched into many research projects!
I’m really excited about a project I’ve developed and am launching right now. I’m using an anonymous online survey to study the identity, body image, and emotional well-being of people who have undergone a gender transition (people who live as a gender that is different from the sex they were assigned at birth). The implications of this study could potentially be huge in the field of counseling psychology and will hopefully impact people’s experiences with therapists and psychologists. You must be 18 to complete the survey. The official recruitment letter and the link for the survey are pasted below. Please spread far and wide. Successful results require a large number of responses.
To Whom It May Concern:
My name is Sebastian Barr and I am currently conducting a research project under the supervision of Dr. Stephanie Budge as part of my doctoral program. This project explores well-being in individuals who have undergone a gender transition (including but not limited to people who identify as female, male, genderqueer, transgender female, transgender male, stealth, binary, non-binary). To qualify for the study, participants must have undergone some degree of a social and/or medical gender transition (for many participants this can be phrased as living as a gender different from the sex they were assigned at birth) and be over the age of 18. Participation involves completing an online questionnaire that will take approximately 10-15 minutes to complete.
The information collected may or may not benefit you directly; however, you will have the opportunity to reflect on a range of life experiences and emotions (both seemingly related and unrelated to transition). Some people may find this to be helpful. Additionally, the information learned in this study may be helpful to others in understanding how different approaches to individuals’ identities can result in higher levels of well-being. This could lead to important applications in therapy and counseling.
It is important to us that the research reflects the wide range of identities and experiences of those who have gone through a gender transition, so we strongly encourage the participation of individuals who are often left out of other studies, e.g., those who live stealth or do not identify as transgender and people with non-binary identities.
If you are interested in being a part of this study, you can complete the questionnaire here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TransitionAndIdentityStudy.
If you have any questions, please contact Sebastian Barr at smbarr01@louisville.edu or Stephanie Budge, slbudg01@louisville.edu.
Thank you,
Sebastian Mitchell Barr
Doctoral Student, Counseling Psychology
Educational and Counseling Psychology
University of Louisville
So as I stop actively blogging on xxboy, which is more of a space for personal reflection and guidance (two things I think many blogs/ppl including The Art of Tranliness, Self Made Men, Annika at Transgender Express and Janet Mock do very well, by the way), I will be continuing to write for a new blog called Lost on Transition.
I was encouraged to start this blog by my girlfriend who suggested that rants to her and on facebook were hardly the most productive use of my brain power and energy. Check it out if you’re interested. The first article I critique will be the cover story from this weekend’s NYTimes’ T Magazine - a piece on gender-variant children and the growing movement to let ‘em be.
Introductory Post: What is This Blog All About?
Well mainly I am targeting journalists who have written, are writing, or might in the future write about trans* people and/or gender diversity. Journalists who, we might say, are lost when it comes to issues of gender transition…
[Trigger Warning for mention and some description of physical and sexual assault against women. There are also three disclaimers at the very end of this post that maybe you should read first..]
Yesterday I spent probably 3 hours obsessively reading about the murder of Yeardley Love. Love was 22, a senior and lacrosse player at University of Virginia, and in May of 2010, her All-American UVA lacrosse-playing boyfriend beat her to death. They looked like the it couple at every sports bar, and in fact many articles reported that they spent more time at their local UVA sports bar than they did in their own living rooms. They were the picture perfect poster image of upper-class educated dude bro culture and were plagued with the dark underside that has become a large part of that culture. Binge drinking, violence against women, blackout sexual encounters, and most terrifying – a perspective that these things are normal and/or inescapable.
I couldn’t tear myself away from the articles. I wanted every fact. I wanted to see pictures of Yeardley. Pictures of George Wesley Huguely V (as in “the fifth”). I wanted to see pictures of them together at frat parties. What high schools did they go to? Were they smart? What were their friends like? What did their friends say about them? And their families?
I have a strange relationship to what I’m calling “dudebro” culture.
Janet Mock is pretty amazing, by the way.
It took Dateline NBC’s Hoda Kotb approximately 13 minutes into her segment - on medical treatments for trans kids - to ask 11-year-old trans girl Josie Romero of Tucson, Arizona: “Do you feel trapped in the wrong body?”
Whenever this question is posed, I find it to be more of a leading statement rather than a true inquiry or invitation for a trans subject to speak about their life experience or outlook on their relationship with their bodies.
Whenever it’s posed it never sits well with me. And here’s why:
http://janetmock.com/2012/07/09/josie-romero-dateline-transgender-trapped-body/
