Always Already Geopolitical: Trans Health Care and Global Tactical Technical Communication

Autor/inn/en	Edenfield, Avery C.; Colton, Jared S.; Holmes, Steve
Titel	Always Already Geopolitical: Trans Health Care and Global Tactical Technical Communication
Quelle	In: Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 49 (2019) 4, S.433-457 (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0047-2816
DOI	10.1177/0047281619871211
Schlagwörter	LGBTQ People; Access to Health Care; Technical Writing; Rhetoric; Multiple Literacies; Politics; Internet; Discussion Groups + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Technical documentation; Technische Dokumentation; Rhetorik; Politik
Abstract	Transgender persons face many barriers preventing them from accessing and receiving health care. Gender-transition care can be difficult because such care is frequently contingent upon geopolitics, such as location-based health-care policies that exclude transgender community attitudes and values. This article uses rhetorical cluster analysis to explore the combining two conceptual lenses--tactical technical communication and participatory localization--to study the do-it-yourself geopolitical medical literacies of transgender people in one Reddit forum. We found being trans online means to be tactical and geopolitical, encountering and negotiating geopolitical awareness of health-care options, exposing a privilege invisible to cisgender users. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01