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Diversifying gender: male to female transgender identities and HIV/AIDS programming in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
JOURNAL: Gender & Development
VOLUME: 14 ISSUE: 2
THEME: Marginalised Peoples
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AUTHOR:
Barbara Earth
EDITED BY:
Caroline Sweetman Fenella Porter
ISSN: 1355-2074 E-ISSN: 1364-9221
STOCK CODE: 002J1183
AVAILABILITY:
Available online only
PUBLISHER: Routledge
FORMAT:
Downloadable PDF
(pp: 13)
PUBLISHED:
Jul 2006
READERSHIP:
Activists and Campaigners, Postgraduate, Undergraduate, Professional and Practitioners,
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ABSTRACT
'Gender' is a word that has become part of HIV/AIDS-related vocabulary and conceptual understanding. However, gender and development approaches understand it as denoting only two identities: male and female. Sexuality is likewise assumed to be heterosexuality. This thinking has informed HIV/AIDS prevention strategies worldwide, and the result is to exclude people who differ from these definitions, leaving them at risk of HIV infection. Research in South-East Asia, and specifically Cambodia, reveals the existence of diverse gender and sexual identities. Some innovative work has begun to develop HIV/AIDS prevention activities with individuals whose gender and sexuality defy conventional categories.
The views expressed in this article are those of the author(s) and do not
necessarily reflect the policies of Oxfam GB
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