Full Description
Bringing together international research and perspectives on bias, prejudice, and hatred towards transgender communities, this collection explores the ways in which transphobia manifests across different times and spaces, addressing an important contemporary issue and filling the current gap in hate studies literature.
This book comes at a crucial time, in which gender identity has become a divisive political tool, contributing to a social climate in which transgender people have become legitimate targets for suspicion, discrimination, and hate. Exploring contemporary debates surrounding transphobic hate crime, the book focuses on understanding transphobic hate crime, examining criminal justice and policy responses, analysing spaces and places where transphobia manifests, and delving into discourse, representation, and construction of transgender identities. Showcasing a diversity of research from across the criminological disciplinary landscape and through research that deploys an innovative array of methodological approaches, this book seeks to contribute to the growing canon of academic research into experiences of transphobic hate crime and provides important insights at a time of unprecedented political, social, and direct threats to trans people's lives.
Presenting research that is both important and innovative, Contemporary Issues in Transphobic Hate and Prejudice will be of great interest to students and scholars working within the disciplines of Criminology, Sociology, Gender Studies, Law, Media Studies, and Queer Studies.
Contents
1. Introduction: Naming Violence, Resisting Erasure - Transphobia and the Politics of Hate Section One: Understanding Identities and Transphobia 2. Transgressing social 'norms': Understanding transphobia and hostility against gender-diverse communities 3. Anti-trans activism: an overview 4. An intersectional lens on the experiences of young transgender and non-binary people in the UK Section Two: Global Patterns in Policy and Practice 5. Prison abolition and the case of CeCe McDonald 6. Addressing jury stigma towards transgender victims of hate crimes 7. Transphobic hate crime in illiberal democracies: A case study of Poland 8. Fatal transgender hate crimes in America: Accounts from a newly established transgender homicides database 9. A cross-sectional study on transphobia, compassion and crime perception in Germany Section Three: Space, Place & Transphobia 10. Occupational hazards: The silent violence experienced by trans women at work 11. "A storm is coming": Deconstructing Doxxing 12. Microaggressions, prejudice, and harm: Perceptions and experiences of transgender and gender non-conforming individuals on Grindr Section Four: Discourse, Representation and Construction 13. Isla Bryson and the burden of representation: inflammatory media coverage of trans women in the U.K. in 2023 14. "Bloody pronouns": Transphobic online hate since the proposed amendments to the Gender Recognition Act (GRA) 2018 15. Concluding thoughts: intersecting identity, risk and harm for trans communities
