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.
Original language | English |
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Pages | 433-457 |
Number of pages | 25 |
Volume | 49 |
No | 4 |
Specialist publication | Journal of Technical Writing and Communication |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 1 2019 |
Keywords
- care
- culture
- global
- health
- intercultural
- international
- medical