J. R. Latham

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Dr J. R. Latham is a Senior Research Fellow and Australian Research Council DECRA fellow in the Centre for Transformative Media Technologies at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. He holds a PhD in Cultural Studies/Public Health (2016) and a BA (Hons1) in Critical Theory/Gender Studies (2009). See jrlatham.com
Address: Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia

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A ‘messenger of sex’? Making testosterone matter in motivations for anabolic-androgenic steroid injecting

Health Sociology Review

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Men’s Performance and Image-Enhancing Drug Use as Self-Transformation: Working Out in Makeover Culture

Australian Feminist Studies

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Trans Surgeries and Cosmetic Surgeries

TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly

This article examines the various possibilities for making an analogy or disanalogy between cosme... more This article examines the various possibilities for making an analogy or disanalogy between cosmetic and trans surgeries, focusing on the suggestion that trans surgeries are medically necessary while cosmetic surgeries are not-a position that has a great deal of rhetorical force. The authors argue that this disanalogy both fails to understand the complexity of the justifications used by recipients of these diverse surgeries and should be seen as symptomatic of various attempts in medical practice to impose particular understandings of suffering, gender identity, and gender politics on trans patients. The appeal to the intense and intrinsic suffering of the trans patient because they cannot become the normatively gendered person they always believed themselves to be, the authors argue, elides the diversity of trans experience as well as coerces trans patients into a politics of ressentiment. Keywords analogy, cosmetic surgery, transgender medicine, gender norms A re surgeries to "change sex" like cosmetic surgery, or even just examples of it? Or are the two sets of elective procedures significantly different ethically and/ or politically? More than a question, even, an analogy or disanalogy between the two is often invoked in a throwaway phrase or rhetorical gesture. Some trans advocates, for example, reassure that trans surgeries are nothing like cosmetic surgeries, while some social critics object that both cosmetic surgeries and trans surgeries represent capitulation to social norms and should therefore be resisted for similar reasons. In other work, we have each challenged what one might call "trans exceptionalism"-any view that trans people are uniquely positioned with regard to gender norms (Heyes 2003, 2009) or should receive medical treatment unlike that offered to nontrans patients (Latham 2013, 2017a). We have both pointed out the hypocrisies and elisions that trans exceptionalist positions involve, and the way they often work to marginalize the critical perspectives of trans people.

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Trans men's sexual narrative-practices: Introducing STS to trans and sexuality studies

Sexualities

Clinical expectations that trans people will be so filled with self-loathing that sexual interact... more Clinical expectations that trans people will be so filled with self-loathing that sexual interactions will be limited if possible at all fail to take into account the heterogeneous ways trans people experience their own bodies and sexualities. In this essay, I extend recent work in science and technology studies (STS) that attends to material practices by examining the work of narrative and argue for a new paradigm in situating trans sexualities. I analyse trans men&#39;s autobiographical stories to show some of the many ways that trans men make sense of themselves (and enact maleness) as sexual subjects. By focusing on how sex-gender is enacted and hangs together in narrative-practices, we can more fully understand and appreciate the realities of trans lives and the inadequacies of clinical diagnosis. Keywords: Autobiography, female to male, praxiography, STS, transgender

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Experiences of LGBTIQA+ People with Disability in Healthcare and Community Services: Towards Embracing Multiple Identities

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Healthcare and disability support services are increasing their efforts towards inclusion and rec... more Healthcare and disability support services are increasing their efforts towards inclusion and recognising the needs of different groups. This research project was conducted by academic and peer researchers (LGBTIQA+ people with disability) in Victoria, Australia using four focus groups with LGBTIQA+ people with disability. We report on two overarching themes relating to participants’ experiences of accessing health services as LGBTIQA+ people with disability: difficulties in managing multiple identities and the impacts of community services and supports. Participants described having to repeatedly ‘come out’ in a range of ways and contexts as complex and layered processes in which it was difficult to present their full range of needs and experiences to services. We also found that the role of community in promoting a sense of belonging and resilience increased capacity to manage health service use and advocacy. Services and communities aiming to be inclusive to all have the opportun...

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