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"Let Them Play...But Not with Me": Exploring Student-Athlete's Attitudes Towards Trans* Participation in Varsity Sport
DownloadSpring 2024
The debate on whether transgender athletes should be ‘allowed’ to participate in elite sport, and in which gender category, has been increasing in recent years. Transgender individuals experience discrimination and rejection in physical activity and sport at a higher degree than their lesbian,...
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Spring 2012
This project favours transgender narratives and affects inspired by exteriority, folds, queer décor, assemblage, and the archive. These spatial models help the project displace models of gender that are grounded in the concepts of enclosure, privacy, and property. As a response to the enforced...
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Exploring Relationships Between Communication Features, Gender Attribution Ratings, and Quality of Life for Transgender and Cisgender Communicators
DownloadSpring 2019
Background: Voice and communication modification training is a critical aspect of the gender affirmation process for many transgender people. Incongruence between communication characteristics and gender positioning can be a cause of gender dysphoria and lead to misattribution or being outed as a...
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Gay-Straight Alliances in High Schools: A Closer Examination of Youth Participation and Well-being
2018-02-01
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2018: Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) are a recent development in Canadian schools. These student-led clubs aim to promote positive youth development. They, and the recent legislation enabling them, are controversial. There is a need for research on the roles and effects of GSAs....
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Gender Non-Conformity in Elementary Schools: Learning from the Experiences of Children who do not Conform to Gender Stereotypes
DownloadFall 2014
This qualitative research study seeks to understand the educational experiences of elementary aged children who do not conform to gender stereotypes. The study explores the educational experiences of three children who have all identified as transgender while in elementary school. The study also...
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Spring 2021
When we think of trans people and photography, we often think of selfies, transition timelines, or stereotypical images like trans women trying to put on makeup. We don’t often think of trans photographers themselves. My research is an autoethnographic reflection from behind the lens rather than...
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Making Feminism Popular: Audience Interpellation in Late Post-Network Era Television (a Case Study of TNT’s THE CLOSER)
DownloadSpring 2016
This dissertation explores the serial design model of The Closer. It answers the following question: How does The Closer offer multiple entry points along a spectrum of views on gender and feminism, appeal to a range of viewers, and thus secure popularity? To generate metadata of how The...
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Symptoms and Experiences of Chest Binding: A Cross-Sectional Survey Using a Patient Oriented, Harm Reduction Approach
DownloadFall 2023
Objective: People bind their chest to relieve gender dysphoria and most people that bind experience negative physical symptoms as a result. The purpose of the current research is to: 1) explore the incidence, overall impact, and level of concern of adverse symptoms related to chest binding, and...