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‘This is how it works here’: the spatial deprioritisation of trans people within homelessness services in Wales
Gender, Place & Culture ( IF 1.463 ) Pub Date : 2021-04-13 , DOI: 10.1080/0966369x.2021.1896997
Edith England 1
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Abstract

Access to physically, psychologically, and emotionally safe spaces is of critical importance for those experiencing the stress and stigmatisation of homelessness. Nightshelters, hostels and day centres provide material resources and respite from dangerous, stigmatising, public space. Yet these spaces also reinscribe a binarised, essentialist understanding of gender by selectively permitting hegemonic masculine behaviours. Structural and economic inequalities translate to significantly elevated homelessness risks among trans people, yet trans people are often under-represented among homelessness service users. Based upon interviews with 28 trans people about their experiences of homelessness spaces, I argue that a hegemonic centring of masculinities results in the physical and emotional safety of trans people of all genders becoming deprioritised. While trans people were not excluded from hostels, trans identity was seen as presenting risk. Thus, trans people are not regarded as normative occupants in mainstream homelessness spaces. Trans people were routinely subject to intense surveillance, and it was trans people, not cis perpetrators, who were relocated when violence occurred. Further. staff tacitly condoned transphobic marginalisation by cis service-users: violence from cis men was understood as inevitable, and normalised, with trans people responsibilised for conducting themselves in space to avoid provoking attack. This research extends hegemonic masculinity by considering spatiality, specifically through attending to the tension between the perceived needs of homeless cis men and the consequent exclusion of trans people from homelessness services. It identifies some specific areas where provision might improve, yet cautions that this must also avoid further disempowerment of homeless trans people.



中文翻译:

“这就是它在这里的运作方式”:威尔士无家可归者服务中跨性别者的空间优先权

摘要

对于那些经历无家可归的压力和污名的人来说,进入身体、心理和情感上安全​​的空间至关重要。夜总会、旅馆和日间中心提供物质资源,让人们远离危险、污名化的公共空间。然而,这些空间也通过选择性地允许霸权的男性行为重新塑造了对性别的二元化、本质主义理解。结构和经济上的不平等导致跨性别者无家可归的风险显着增加,但跨性别者在无家可归服务用户中的代表性往往不足。根据对 28 位跨性别者关于他们在无家可归空间的经历的采访,我认为,以男性气概为中心的霸权主义导致所有性别的跨性别者的身体和情感安全都被剥夺了优先权。身份被视为存在风险。因此,跨性别者不被视为主流无家可归者空间的规范居住者。跨性别者经常受到严密监视,当暴力发生时,被转移的是跨性别者,而不是顺式犯罪者。更远。工作人员默许独联体服务使用者对跨性别者的边缘化:独联体男子的暴力被认为是不可避免的,并且是常态化的,跨性别者有责任在太空中进行自我保护以避免引发攻击。这项研究通过考虑空间性来扩展霸权男性气质,特别是通过关注无家可归的顺式男性的感知需求与随后将跨性别者排除在无家可归者服务之外之间的紧张关系。它确定了一些可能改善供应的特定领域,

更新日期:2021-04-13
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