Young Trans People Research Project
Volunteer participants needed for exciting new research project about young trans people; be part of important and groundbreaking research about your life, your journey, your problems, your friends, your past and your future…!
Trans people should not have to hide and apologise for who they are. Tell the World about being you!
About The Project
Trans people have been able to work together and support each other, and so come out and live in their real genders in greater numbers since the internet has been more widely available. This project intends to find out whether, and how internet use makes this possible for young trans people.
The Study
The study aims to interview – face-to-face if possible – young trans people between 13 and 22 about how they found out about being trans, whether, and if so how, they made contact with other trans people and how they access support and develop their identities online. The study starts from the idea that young trans people are not simply passive victims of a society that does not include them, but active in constructing their own identities.
The study will form part of Natacha’s PhD, which she is doing at London University Institute of Education. It focuses on looking at how young trans people use the internet.
All information collected from study participants will be treated confidentially and when it is published no participant will be named or identified. Interviews will be arranged in safe spaces and at convenient times for participants. For more detailed information please see the FAQ page
The Researcher
Natacha Kennedy is herself trans, although she was assigned male at birth has always felt she was a girl. She used to be a primary school teacher but now works as a lecturer and researcher at Goldsmiths College, London University. She has published an important study about trans people and the ages at which they come to realise they are trans. In addition she writes about trans issues in the Guardian, Meta and other publications.
She is also a trans activist having organised successful protests against Stonewall including a transphobic writer in its awards ceremony, a transphobic conference of psychologists, forced sterilisation of transsexual people in Sweden and to prevent deportation of a trans asylum-seeker from Denmark to certain death in Guatemala.
She is involved in community work as co-chair of Camden LGBT Forum and co-organises the London Transgender Day of Remembrance.
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