User:Bulldog53420

I'm currently enrolled in a Global Youth Studies program that targets the systemic bias and shortcomings of current Wikipedia articles. I am interested in topics of race, gender, sexuality, and poverty. I am particularly interested in the pages on transgender youth and suicide among LGBT youth.

I have already begun the search for academic materials for my chosen subject: Trans youth in China. Though there was a moment of hesitation about whether or not I should dedicate myself to the troubled Transgender in China page or to the much better established Homosexuality in China, I feared the limiting name of the latter would hinder my research and raise questions on what specifically has a place on that page. On the other hand, I have found the studies of transgender youth to be much more specific to the transgender community, though there may not be as much literature (when compared to other GSM articles that might have otherwise found a home in Homosexuality in China, had it not been named “Homosexuality”).

So far, the most success I’ve gotten in just doing a general search on Google Scholar. Luckily, I have found a peer-reviewed article in the Journal of LGBT Youth entitled “Transgender in China” and self-describes as “This autobiographical essay of a Chinese transgender who has grown up in a special social background involves the Chinese family, religion, and some social background to demonstrate the current situation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender groups, especially the condition of female-to-male transgender.” I have also found a documentary entitled Brothers, about the journey a Trans person makes in complete their transition from male to female.

Though there are others, these are my most promising leads as far a getting a comprehensive look at how different elements of Chinese society view these people. Because they are narrative- and subject-based, I am hoping, upon further inspection, that as each subject tries to live their lives normally, interacting with family, friends, religion, the state, schools, and work, that their situation will be different in each, giving me potential subheadings to explore in my article.