Technology for Transgender Healthcare: Access, Precarity & Community Care
dc.contributor.author | Everhart, Avery R. | |
dc.contributor.author | Gamarel, Kristi E. | |
dc.contributor.author | Haimson, Oliver L. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-05-08T19:44:14Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-05-08T19:44:14Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2024-03-14 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Social Science & Medicine, Volume 345, March 2024, 116713 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/193109 | en |
dc.description.abstract | While much of the transgender health literature has focused on poor health outcomes, less research has examined how trans people find reliable information on, and actually go about accessing, gender-affirming healthcare. Through qualitative interviews with creators of trans technologies, that is, technologies designed to address problems that trans people face, we found that digital technologies have become important tools for proliferating access to gender-affirming care and related health information. We found that technologists often employed different processes for creating their technologies, but they coalesced around the goal of enabling and increasing access to gender-affirming care. Creators of trans health technologies also encountered precarious conditions for creating and maintaining their technologies, including regional gaps left by national resources focused on the US east and west coasts. Findings demonstrated that trans tech creators were motivated to create and maintain these technologies as a means of caring for one another and forming trans communities in spite of the precarious conditions trans people face living under systemic oppression. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | National Science Foundation | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_US |
dc.title | Technology for Transgender Healthcare: Access, Precarity & Community Care | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Information Science | |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/193109/1/1-s2.0-S0277953624001576-main.pdf | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116713 | |
dc.identifier.doi | https://dx.doi.org/10.7302/22754 | |
dc.identifier.source | Social Science & Medicine | en_US |
dc.description.mapping | c4321027-eaa6-44f5-a298-a6880ec181d5 | en_US |
dc.description.filedescription | Description of 1-s2.0-S0277953624001576-main.pdf : Main article | |
dc.description.depositor | SELF | en_US |
dc.working.doi | 10.7302/22754 | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Information, School of (SI) |
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