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Transsexuality (ethical aspects of gender transitioning and role of social work in the process)
LUKSCH, Jakub
This thesis deals with the transgender phenomenon and in three chapters explores the ethical level of transitioning and the specifics of social work with transgender clientele. First chapter presents general insight into the topic and looks into the terminological difference between the terms gender and sex, transgender and transsexuality. After that it deals with aspects of the process of transition and also briefly describes the etiology of transgender identity, representation of trans individuals in the population and the phenomenon of minority stress. Second chapter of the thesis introduces the results of a research realised as a part of the work. The results are compiled into narrations of the participants transgender life stories. Third chapter sums up the ethical dilemmas related to the transitioning process, selected ethical dilemma taken from realised research is reflected through the optics of two ethical stances (deontology of I. Kant and utilitarianism of J. S. Mill). Closing part is designated for dealing with the specifics of social work with transgender clients and are presented competences needed for high-quality social work with the transgender target group.
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Transition as a way to self-acceptance
BÍLKOVÁ, Michaela
This bachelor thesis deals with the issue of transition, in the social, medical, and legal spheres. It explores the lives of trans people from their first awareness of their gender identity, through coming out, hormone therapy and gender-affirming surgery. It traces the critical moments of transition and complications that arise during it. It also explores socially conditioned attitudes and negative social reception. The empirical part is developed using a qualitative strategy, in-depth interviews with people who have gone through the process of transition. It explores how trans people experience their transition, how the decision to transition is made, their satisfaction with their transition, and more. It also focuses on the reaction of the close people and surroundings and the subsequent impact on the trans person.
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Social Work and Transgender People
KUČERA, Charlie
This thesis explores the topic of transgender people as clients of social work. Its goal is to examine transgender experiences in the context of Czech social work. The first part is theoretical and focuses on terminology and current situation, mentioning legal framework and possible developements. The theoretical part includes a list of LGBT+ organisations which provide diverse kinds of support to transgender people. I chose qualitative approach for exploring this topic and conducted narrative interviews. For this purpose I contacted transgender people who had the experience of being clients of social services. I analysed the outputs by the open coding method inspired by the Grounded Theory. Based on the comparison between the interviews and expert advice I found out the following: the basic need among transgender clients of social work is for their experienced gender identity to be recognised and respected. It is also important for the quality of their mutual interaction that the social worker is aware of transgender issues. However, based on the collected transgender experiences, those needs are not always met. The level of knowledge on this topic and their stance varies among social workers in the Czech Republic. Finally, this thesis poses a question, whether social services providing accomodation might potentially expose transgender clients to more confrontational situations where gender is an improtant factor. Yet, it is concluded that the overall approach of the service matters the most. The results of this work will be presented to the FOKUS České Budějovice NGO employees.
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Psychological aspects of the transformation of gender role of transgenders in Czech context
Čechová, Helena ; Smetáčková, Irena (advisor) ; Hrubý, Radovan (referee)
The thesis presents the processes of gender role transition and sex reassignment from the perspectives of psychology, medicine, and sociology. Its main focus is on the various aspects influencing the psyche of a person undertaking transition. The thesis investigates why trans identity is commonly viewed as a pathology and the impact of pathologization on the self-perception of trans people. Furthemore, the traditional outline of the transition process in Czech sexology is compared to some current international approaches. A section of the text addresses psychotherapy as a key factor in transition. A significant component of the thesis is that it takes a sociocultural viewpoint on gender identity and gender roles. One of the goals is to understand how medical experts dealing with trans identity conceptualize transition and how trans people themselves conceptualize it. The overall aim is to investigate how both of these sides influence each other and what psychological aspects enter the processes of gender role transition and sex reassignment. Key words: transsexuality, transgender, sex reassignment, gender identity, gender role.
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Transgender identity
Kováriková, Juliána ; Skupnik, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Štěpánová, Irena (referee)
The main purpose of the present diploma thesis is to introduce the transgender identity as a newly emerging lifestyle and political activism of transpeople. Because the transgenderism has been formed in opposition to the dominant medical discourse of transsexuality, it is necessary to include the transsexual stand of view which transgender people are defining against. I regard the transsexuality and transgenderism as two different discourses forming new different identity categories, having specific impact on lives of people they are naming. I focus mainly on the impact of different concepts of sex, gender and sexuality on formation of specific shapes of these ideologies. In the empirical part, I am applying my mind on the narrative construction of transgender identity. Through some parts of interview with a person diagnosed with transsexuality, that has accepted the identity of a transgender in the course of his life, I try to mediate a more realistic and sculpturesque image of transgender/transsexual life, identity and sense of self.
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Gay pride: the media portrait of homosexuality in czech media based on the example of gay marches
Strnadová, Mirka ; Osvaldová, Barbora (advisor) ; Hronová, Tereza (referee)
This thesis describes the reflection of homosexuality in Czech media on the example of marches of homosexuals. Firstly I clarify the main terms and the differences between them, then I focus on the history of perception of homosexuality and the roles of homosexuals in our society. The chosen units for the content analysis are following periodicals: MF Dnes, Právo and Lidové noviny. The analysis focuses on the articles published in the range of three months from the day the events took place during the years 2008 and 2011. In the analytical part of this thesis I firstly characterize the marches held twice in Brno, once in Tábor and once in Prague. All the periodicals were interested in the first Queer Parade in Brno but their interest in the second and third one dropped. The most media attention achieved the Prague Pride in 2011. There have been over 100 articles about this topic and their size rose and dropped equally with the number of visitors of these events. The interest of the media has also been influenced by any kind of negative event, mainly when the marches were attacked by extremists or criticised by politicians. These negative and stereotypical statements in media can be very influential in the way of stigmatizing sexual minority and it is also one of the aspects which this thesis pays...
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Systems of Transgender Oppression in the Czech Republic: An Independent Analysis
Lorenzů, Alex ; Sokolová, Věra (advisor) ; Kobová, Ĺubica (referee)
The thesis deals with the normative discourse of transsexuality, both from a general cultural- historical perspective in the context of Western science and medicine and more specifically in the context of Czech sexology. On a detailed analysis of the publication Transsexualita: Diagnostika a léčba (Transsexuality: Diagnostics and Treatment), I illustrate the currently dominant conceptualization of transgender and/or transsexuality as a disorder, which, due to its normative influence, predetermines not only the possibilities of (self)identification available to trans* people in the Czech Republic, but also their treatment by Czech society and state institutions (e.g. in the conditions to be met for legal gender recognition, which still include compulsory sterilization). Methodologically, the thesis is chiefly grounded in discourse analysis, but it also shows an ethical standpoint in relation to the situation of Czech trans* people in the legal and medical systems. I also consider the factual dimension of transgender status and other expressions of gender diversity, primarily in maintaining a critical distance from the notions of their alleged pathology, still widespread in the normative sexological discourse. Keywords Biology, discourse, ethics, human rights, intersex, normativity, pathologization,...
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Personal expirience of transsexuals with the process of gender transformation
Angelisová, Aneta ; Goldmann, Petr (advisor) ; Adámková, Jana (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with the issue of gender identity disorders, specifically transsexualism. The theoretical part defines the basic concepts that are essential for understanding the whole issue and which are used throughout the thesis. It includes a total of five chapters to the topic of transsexuality in terms of psychology and legislation. The first chapter briefly defines the term transsexuality from the perspective of various experts and professional publications, it is devoted to the history and etiology of transsexuality. The second chapter discusses gender identity and factors that may influence the development of identity. The third chapter deals with the process of gender transformation in transsexual subjects from the very beginning of treatment to its termination. The fourth chapter deals with partnership, sexuality and adaptation of transsexual individuals. The fifth chapter looks at transsexuality from the legislative point of view, defines the laws that deal with the issue of transsexualism. The empirical part is devoted to the realized research focused on own experience with coming out, process of gender transformation, environment reactions and partnership relations. The research is of a qualitative nature; it was conducted through semi-structured interviews with 8 of the 16...
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Legal gender change in the Czech Republic
Voráčková, Barbora ; Angelovská, Olga (advisor) ; Hejzlarová, Eva (referee)
1 Annotation This bachelor's thesis deals with the process of legal gender change in the Czech Republic. Legal gender change is very important for many people inside the transgender community. The goal of this thesis is to describe this process and find problems and barriers that make completing it harder and longer. This thesis is supported by the street-level bureaucracy theory by Michael Lipsky because these workers are important part of the process and have big impact on it. These workers are mostly doctors and state officials that change names. For the purpose of this thesis two interviews with experts and six interviews with transgender people were made. The interviews were semi-structured depending on the story the respondent decided to tell. The shortest one lasted about 20 minutes and the longest one had 2 hours. They were analyzed by the thematic analysis. Problems mentioned in the interviews were unclear conditions like neutral name or being or not being necessary in the real life test. Also, sterilization and divorce being the law stated conditions were found a problem.
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Transsexuality
ŠTANGLOVÁ, Jitka
The bachelor thesis is focused on the description of the life path of transsexual men from their childhood, through the change of sex, to the reaction of the neighbourhood to their new identity. The research was also attended by family members and close friends of transsexuals, who supplement their research with their views on gender conversion. The theoretical part of the thesis deals with the definition of terms from the field of transsexuality, which are sex, gender and gender identity. Subsequently, the thesis deals with the classification of gender identity disorders, the history and etiology of transgender. Then, a detailed description of the individual stages of sex conversion follows and in the final part, the work deals with the representation of transsexual individuals in the population. The empirical part describes the life of transsexual men in the areas of childhood and adolescence, the first consciousness, the course of gender conversion and the reaction of the neighbourhood to their new identity. The research is enriched by the statements of the family and close friends who comment on the sex change of the respondents. A total of 5 people participated in the research, and in-depth interviews were conducted and narrative analysis was chosen as a research method.
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