WP4 Blog #1

For writing project 4 I am choosing to write about the trans femme community and the social issues they face pertaining to health. Some knowledge I have on conditions facing this group already is that the community of Trans-femme individuals in the US faces an alarming amount of hate crimes and violence inflicted on them as a result of larger harmfully unresolved societal views and values. Trans-femme individuals in our culture are heavily dehumanized due to fetishization and othering which enables sexual, physical, emotional, and political violence toward them. I also know that because of the prevalence of targeted abuse among other social conditions, psychological trauma is often associated with the lived experience of being a trans-femme individual. Some information I want to research more on my chosen demographic group is the threat of diseases on the community such as HIV. Also, I want to research the political factors impacting access to trans-specific healthcare as well as laws that impact the rights and freedoms of the community in general.