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Challenging cisgenderism in the ageing and aged care sector: Meeting the needs of older people of trans and/or non‐binary experience
Author(s) -
Ansara Y. Gavriel
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
australasian journal on ageing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.63
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1741-6612
pISSN - 1440-6381
DOI - 10.1111/ajag.12278
Subject(s) - aged care , legislature , ideology , gerontology , psychology , gender studies , medicine , social psychology , sociology , political science , politics , law
Recent A ustralian legislative and policy changes can benefit people of trans and/or non‐binary experience (e.g. men assigned female with stereotypically ‘female’ bodies, women assigned male with stereotypically ‘male’ bodies, and people who identify as genderqueer, agender [having no gender], bi‐gender [having two genders] or another gender option). These populations often experience cisgenderism , which previous research defined as ‘the ideology that invalidates people's own understanding of their genders and bodies’ [1–6]. Some documented forms of cisgenderism include pathologising (treating people's genders and bodies as disordered) and misgendering (disregarding people's own understanding and classifications of their genders and bodies) [1,2,7]. This system of classifying people's lived experiences of gender and body invalidation is called the cisgenderism framework [3,7]. Applying the cisgenderism framework in the ageing and aged care sector can enhance service providers' ability to meet the needs of older people of trans and/or non‐binary experience.