Article
Always Already Geopolitical: Trans Health Care and Global Tactical Technical Communication
Journal of Techncial Writing and Communication
(2019)
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.
Keywords
- culture,
- care,
- health,
- medical,
- international,
- intercultural,
- global
Publication Date
Summer September, 2019
DOI
10.1177/0047281619871211
Citation Information
Avery C. Edenfield. "Always Already Geopolitical: Trans Health Care and Global Tactical Technical Communication" Journal of Techncial Writing and Communication Vol. 49 Iss. 4 (2019) p. 433 - 457 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/avery-edenfield/18/