Trans children and the necessity to complicate gender in primary schools

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dc.contributor.authorNeary, Aoifeen
dc.date.accessioned2025-06-06T13:51:00Z
dc.date.available2025-06-06T13:51:00Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractTrans children have become more visible in primary schools in recent years. Arising from a qualitative study with twelve parents of trans children (aged 5–13) and six primary school educators in Ireland, this paper explores how trans children experience two very different forms of celebratory rituals that are entangled with life in primary schools: birthday celebrations and religious rituals. These rituals are experienced as moments of affectively intense rupture for trans children, moments that shunt the violence of the disciplinary framework of gender into view. Informed by theorizing on gender norms and affect, this paper makes visible the cruel conundrum of navigating a gender frame that acts violently but at the same provides the very terms through which trans identities can be asserted and apprehended. Ultimately, this paper provides an empirical illustration of the messiness of gender and argues for the necessity to complicate the framework of gender in primary schools.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished versionen
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dc.identifier.citationNeary, A. (2021) 'Trans children and the necessity to complicate gender in primary schools', Gender and Education, 33(8), pp.1073-1089. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2021.1884200en
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/09540253.2021.1884200en
dc.identifier.endpage1089en
dc.identifier.issn9540253en
dc.identifier.issued8
dc.identifier.journaltitleGender and Educationen
dc.identifier.startpage1073en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/17621
dc.identifier.volume33
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherRoutledgeen
dc.rights© 2021, The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in anymedium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectTrans childrenen
dc.subjectPrimary schoolen
dc.subjectCelebratory ritualsen
dc.subjectRuptureen
dc.subject~Education - Journal Articles~en
dc.titleTrans children and the necessity to complicate gender in primary schoolsen
dc.typeArticle (peer reviewed)en
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