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Genderism and trans students in Hong Kong higher education
Author(s)
Date Issued
2021
Publisher
Routledge
ISBN
9780429293399
9780367264574
9780367264550
Citation
In Harrison, N., & Atherton, G. (Eds.). (2021). Marginalised communities in higher education: Disadvantage, mobility and indigeneity (pp. 64-78). Routledge.
Type
Book Chapter
Abstract
Students attending universities or colleges come from diverse groups, including racial, ethnic, ability status, sexual orientation, gender and intersex identities. Transgender or, to use a more inclusive term, ‘trans’ students in this chapter are defined as those students who ‘do not identify with or normatively enact the gender assigned to them at birth’. Most studies include trans groups with lesbian, gay and bisexual students without addressing trans students as a unique group; no trans people are typically found within studies of Chinese societies. Publication of this chapter will help to fill this knowledge gap. The chapter aims to provide terms and discuss trans identity development and to highlight the prejudice experienced by trans students in higher education institutions based on a synthesis of international studies. Research results from two Hong Kong studies on trans prejudice projects are highlighted and recommendations for college counselors on supporting trans students in Hong Kong sociocultural context are provided.
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