• Royce Fellowship
Noah
Lupica

Concentration 

Biology; Medical Anthropology

Award Year 

2015
Narratives Transforming Narratives: A Call to Re-Imagine Our Clinical Approach to Trans-Medicine

The relationship between transition narratives and medical narratives about transition is complex and increasingly tense. Although patients and doctors use similar language, the ideological frameworks of gender and body are misaligned between the trans and medical communities. Through qualitative interview, Noah collected transition narratives from a sample of recently transitioned and transitioning college-aged individuals to characterize and contextualize this misalignment as well as the influence trans and medical communities have on each other's respective gender-ideologies.