Healthcare and Global Tactical Technical Communication in Online Trans-DIY Forums

Avery Edenfield; Jared S Colton; Steven Holmes

doi:10.1177/0047281619871211

Healthcare and Global Tactical Technical Communication in Online Trans-DIY Forums

Avery Edenfield, Jared S Colton, Steven Holmes

English

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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
Pages (from-to)	433-457
Journal	Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0047281619871211
State	Published - Oct 2019

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