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Publication Date: 2019-Oct
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Always Already Geopolitical: Trans Health Care and Global Tactical Technical Communication
Edenfield, Avery C.; Colton, Jared S.; Holmes, Steve
Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, v49 n4 p433-457 Oct 2019
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.
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Access to Health Care, Technical Writing, Rhetoric, Multiple Literacies, Politics, Internet, Discussion Groups
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