Open AccessTrans Men and Trans Women
Author(s) -
Julian Rome
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
stance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1943-1899
pISSN - 1943-1880
DOI - 10.33043/s.11.1.10-21
Subject(s) - transgender , psychology , transgender women , gender identity , gender studies , social psychology , sociology , medicine , men who have sex with men , syphilis , family medicine , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv)
This paper addresses one of the ways in which transgender individuals identify with respect to personal history, living “stealth,” whereby transgender individuals do not disclose their transgender status (that is, they present themselves as cisgender), oftentimes no longer considering themselves transgender. Individuals who live stealth are often criticized for inauthenticity; thus, this paper analyses Sartrean notions of authenticity and personal history, thereby arguing that the person who lives stealth is not living inauthentically but rather is constituting their conception of self through their past, present, and future projects.