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Call for papers for a special issue of Lambda Nordica on:

'Trans rights as human rights- the implications for trans health(care)'


Guest editors: Katherine Harrison & Ulrica Engdahl, Unit of Gender Studies, Linköping University, Sweden.

This special issue takes as its starting point the recent UN resolution that affirms human rights to trans persons and brings attention to human rights violations based on gender identity. In this special issue we want to focus specifically on the healthcare context as a key space in which issues of rights, responsibilities and care are highlighted.

The special issue takes inspiration from recent reports published by Socialstyrelsen (Transsexuella och övriga personer med könsidentitetsstörningar - Rättsliga villkor för fastställelse av könstillhörighet samt vård och stöd, 2010), RFSL (”Feeling safe turns me on” – thoughts and experiences regarding sex and need for knowledge and sexual health resources among trans people in Sweden, 2011) and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender Nonconforming People, 2011).

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

· The role of narratives/cultures in transhealth (e.g. learning through reading trans narratives, asking whose stories ‘count’, and contradictory or counter-narratives)

· Trans youth (e.g. discussions around age limit, violence and bullying, and practical issues around accessing relevant healthcare)

· Sexual health (e.g. sexual pleasure, bodily comfort, desire, sexual health clinics and transknowledge, HIV and sexually transmitted diseases)

· What is ‘health’? (e.g. what constitutes ‘good health’ and why is it important? Issues around food, exercise, depathologisation, and the role of social networks)

· Standards of care (e.g. recent changes to standards of care, differing national contexts, funding, caregivers and caregiving)

· Trans rights as human rights – the right to health care (e.g. patients’ rights, responsibilities of medical professionals, and ethical questions)

Articles are particularly welcomed that address healthcare issues in the Nordic and/or Baltic region (Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden).

Interested contributors should submit a 250-word abstract and a short biography to the editors, Katherine Harrison (katherine.harrison@liu.se) and Ulrica Engdahl (ulrica.engdahl@liu.se ) by 15 June 2012.

(For reference - Final articles should be up to 7.000 words and can be written in English, Danish, Norwegian or Swedish. Submission deadline for papers for accepted abstracts is 15 September 2012.)