Always Already Geopolitical: Trans Health Care and Global Tactical Technical Communication
Document Type
Article
Author ORCID Identifier
Avery C. Edenfield 0000-0002-1273-2204
Journal/Book Title/Conference
Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
Volume
49
Issue
4
Publisher
Sage Publications, Inc.
Publication Date
9-6-2019
First Page
433
Last Page
457
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.
Recommended Citation
Edenfield, A. C., Colton, J. S., & Holmes, S. (2019). Always Already Geopolitical: Trans Health Care and Global Tactical Technical Communication. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 49(4), 433-457. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047281619871211 (Original work published 2019)