Care without Pathology

How Trans- Health Activists Are Changing Medicine

CHRISTOPH HANSSMANN

Examining trans- healthcare as a key site through which struggles for health and justice take shape

Over the past two decades, medical and therapeutic approaches to transgender patients have changed radically, from treating a supposed pathology to offering genderaffirming care. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in New York City and Buenos Aires, Care without Pathology moves across the Americas to show how trans- health activists have taken on the project of depathologization.

In New York, Christoph Hanssmann examines activist attempts to overturn bans on using public health dollars to fund trans- health care. In Argentina, he traces how transactivists marshaled medical statistics and personal biographies to reveal state violence directed against trans- people and travestis. Hanssmann also demonstrates the importance of understanding transphobia in the broader context of gendered racism, ableism, and antipoverty, arguing for the rise of a thoroughly coalition-based mass mobilization.

Care without Pathology highlights the distributive arguments activists made to access state funding for health care, combating state arguments that funding trans- health care is too specialized, too expensive, and too controversial. Hanssmann situates trans- health as a crucible within which sweeping changes are taking place— with potentially far-reaching effects on the economic and racial barriers to accessing care.

GENDER AND SEXUALITY/PUBLIC HEALTH

$30.00x Paper ISBN: 978-1-5179-1341-0

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NOVEMBER

336 pages 10 b&w illustrations 2 tables 5 1/2 x 8 1/2

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