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ERIC Number: EJ1453281
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 21
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0159-6306
EISSN: EISSN-1469-3739
Trans-Forming the Discipline: The Subjugation of Psychologists Working in Adult Gender Clinics across the UK
Igi Moon
Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, v45 n5-6 p634-654 2024
This paper draws on interviews with 10 psychologists working in NHS (National Health Service) Adult Gender Identity Clinics across the UK and focuses on the way they put their clinical knowledge about gender into practice. It also questions how two major NHS consultations set the parameters for professional and clinical practice in relation to gender affirming technologies despite their methodologies being at variance with each other and having severe implications for treatment options. Findings indicated that psychologists believed their experiences of working in a gender clinic was deeply problematic, leading them to question their mental health, their agency at work, and recent shifts to professionalise their role by introducing 'specialist' level accountability. They were routinely challenging a dated neo-liberal system that lacks compassion, is inflexible, reductive, functionalist and interventionist. Such a system sustains a cis-normative, neo-liberal framework at the expense of transgender and non-binary pedagogy and testimony.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom
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