I am taking time away from work due to health issues and will be unlikely to generate new content over the next month, so this feels like a great opportunity to share some older material that may still be useful. First up, my thesis! This study explores narratives of gender legitimacy as they are moderated by fatness for trans people in early transition, and how that is further moderated by specific gender identity and race.
This is something I wrote several years ago now, and I wouldn’t have made all the same choices, particularly in how I talk about BMI. Although I was critical of BMI when I wrote this and I still am now, my criticism has developed considerably and the framing I chose is pretty dramatically different from what I would say now. Still, I think it’s generally a useful paper and I don’t know that I’m ever going to get around to editing it for formal publication.
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Han Koehle 