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Passing as a Transsexual Woman in the Gender Identity Clinic

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Theorizing Identities and Social Action

Part of the book series: Identity Studies in the Social Sciences ((IDS))

Abstract

In this chapter I report findings from research undertaken as part of a large-scale study of the construction of transsexual identities in a British National Health Service Gender Identity Clinic (Speer and Green, 2008). Drawing on a single case conversation analysis of one minute of videotaped and transcribed interaction from an assessment session between a male consultant psychiatrist and a pre-operative male-to-female transsexual1 patient attending the clinic, I investigate the interactional practices associated with the social action of ‘passing’ as female.

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Speer, S.A. (2009). Passing as a Transsexual Woman in the Gender Identity Clinic. In: Wetherell, M. (eds) Theorizing Identities and Social Action. Identity Studies in the Social Sciences. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230246942_7

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