Managing Gender Care in Precarity: Trans Communities Respond to COVID-19

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Journal of Business and Technical Communication

Volume

35

Issue

1

Publisher

Sage Publications, Inc.

Publication Date

9-10-2020

First Page

15

Last Page

21

Abstract

Transgender (trans) people always already live with health care precarity, particularly concerning gender transition. During a pandemic, this precarity is heightened. Trans people find themselves without access to necessary cross-sex hormones or isolated with unaccepting or hostile family members. As a result, some engage in tactical technical communication, using the Internet to source knowledge and supplies to manage their transition. This article analyzes these do-it-yourself forms of tactical technical communication that support gender transition in the time of COVID-19.

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