Organizing for Transgender Rights
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Organizing for Transgender Rights

Collective Action, Group Development, and the Rise of a New Social Movement

  1. 226 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Organizing for Transgender Rights

Collective Action, Group Development, and the Rise of a New Social Movement

About this book

Illuminates transgender activists' successful strategies to organize for social and political change in the US.

In recent years, gender-variant people-including those we now call transgender people-have won public policy victories that had previously seemed unwinnable: the American Psychiatric Association replaced the term "gender identity disorder" with "gender dysphoria" in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the Department of Justice announced that discrimination on the basis of gender identity constituted sex discrimination, and the Department of Health and Human Services decided that it would no longer stop Medicare from covering gender reassignment surgery. What accounts for these and other victories?

Anthony J. Nownes argues that a large part of the answer lies in the rise of transgender rights interest groups in the United States. Drawing on firsthand accounts from the founders and leaders of these groups, Organizing for Transgender Rights not only addresses how these groups mobilized and survived but also illuminates a path to further social change. Nownes shows how oppressed and marginalized people can overcome the barriers to collective action and form viable organizations to represent their interests even when their government continues to be hostile and does not.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Tables and Figures
  6. Preface
  7. 1 Introduction: Organizing for Transgender Rights in the United States
  8. 2 A Brief History of Transgender Rights Organizing in the United States
  9. 3 The Crucial Role of Grievances and Interactions
  10. 4 Interactions, Learning, and Connections
  11. 5 Overcoming the Collective-Action Problem
  12. 6 A Return to Context: Population Ecology and Political Opportunity Structure
  13. 7 The Role of Collective Identity
  14. 8 Conclusion: The Formation of Transgender Rights Interest Groups in the United States
  15. Appendix A The Questionnaire Protocol
  16. Appendix B Data and Methods
  17. Notes
  18. References
  19. Index
  20. Back Cover