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Gender & Society, Vol. 11, No. 4, 478-508 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/089124397011004006

COMING OUT AND CROSSING OVER

Identity Formation and Proclamation in a Transgender Community

PATRICIA GAGNÉ

University of Louisville

RICHARD TEWKSBURY

University of Louisville

DEANNA McGAUGHEY

Ohio University

Drawing on data from interviews with 65 masculine-to-feminine transgenderists, the authors examine the coming-out experiences of transgendered individuals. Drawing on the literature that shows gender to be an inherent component of the social infrastructure that at an individual level is accomplished in interaction with others, they demonstrate that interactional challenges to gender are insufficient to challenge the system of gender. Whereas many transgenderists believe that their actions and identities are radical challenges to the binary system of gender, in fact, the majority of such individuals reinforce and reify the system they hope to change.


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