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A groundbreaking overview of transgender relationship violence
In the course of their lives, around fifty percent of transgender people will experience intimate partner violence in their relationships—including psychological, physical, or sexual abuse. In Transgender Intimate Partner Violence, Adam M. Messinger and Xavier L. Guadalupe-Diaz bring together a diverse group of scholars, service providers, activists, and others to examine this widespread problem, shedding light on the often-hidden experiences of transgender survivors.
Drawing on two decades of research, contributors explore transgender intimate partner violence in all of its complexities, offering an overview of this emerging body of policy, research, and practice. They offer best practices to enhance research, services, and healing for transgender survivors.
A revolutionary volume, Transgender Intimate Partner Violence offers insight into how to create a compassionate and inclusive world for transgender communities.
Editors: Adam M. Messinger and Xavier L. Guadalupe-Diaz
Paperback Published August 2020 410 pages
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"'Ending transgender intimate partner violence truly will take a village.', write the editors of this volume, Adam M. Messinger and Xavier L. Guadalupe-Diaz. Nevertheless, as the fourteen chapters in this volume have demonstrated, such a task is not impossible, once a diverse group of service providers, researchers, activists, and community members come together to dismantle our assumptions on transgender intimate partner violence (IPV). Is law and order always an effective means to address IPV? Why might calling the police be detrimental to the lives of transpeople who become the victims of IPV? Why do many transpeople keep staying in their abusive relationship? In what ways can service providers offer a trans-affirmative shelter and service that usually cater to female victims of intimate partner violence? How should community organisations design health care services that can address transgender survivors of IPV? These are some of the important questions addressed critically in all the chapters that are written in an accessible fashion to a wider audience, ranging from social workers, community activists, service providers, academic researchers, to students. Moreover, this volume also presents best practices and examples that will help activists and professional to create meaningful changes for transgender communities. Such power of universality to touch diverse groups of readers is an invitation for everyone to engage and end the violence against transpeople."
"Recognizing the alarming reality that transgender individuals experience some of the highest rates of intimate partner violence, Messinger and Guadalupe-Diaz have assembled a pioneering, transformative, cerebral, interdisciplinary, and praxis-oriented compilation that merges the knowledge of scholars, survivors, advocates, and activists. The authors of Transgender Intimate Partner Violence: A Comprehensive Introduction raise awareness and provide critical analyses of the experiences of transgender survivors and victims of intimate partner violence. The authors also intricately and humanistically address the complexities of transgender perpetrators of intimate partner violence." ~Hillary Potter, author of Battle Cries: Black Women and Intimate Partner Abuse
"This volume is essential reading for everyone committed to violence prevention and transgender equality. Far beyond solely presenting empirical findings to improve future scholarship, it also provides best practices for professionals working with survivors and suggestions for policy reform, all while bringing visibility to a critically important social problem." ~Vanessa Panfil, author of The Gang's All Queer: The Lives of Gay Gang Members