Transgender Studies on the tranimality of hormone therapy

[frameacloud]

Content warnings: None. A linked article talks about animal suffering.

Several articles in Transgender Studies Quarterly used keywords of interest: trans-species and tranimal.

Lindsay Kelley's article "Tranimals" notes that "The term tranimals debuted at the 2009 annual meeting of the Society for Science, Literature, and Art panel 'TRANimalS: Theorizing the Trans- in Zoontology' (Kelley and Hayward 2009)" (p. 227).

In "Transxenoestrogenesis," Eva Hayward talks about the problem of the animal source of some forms of exogenous hormone therapy. Hayward observes, "historically, human bodies hormonally sex-transitioning from male to female have always been trans-species ('tranimal') bodies" (p. 256).

The full text of the journal is freely available online.

Source

TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 1. 1-2 (May 2014).
http://tsq.dukejournals.org/content/1/1-2
http://tsq.dukejournals.org/content/1/1-2/255.full.pdf

Comments

[spacehawk.livejournal.com]

Is this also how estrogen is manufactured for use in oral contraceptives and in hormone replacement therapy for women in menopause?

[frameacloud]

Exogenous hormones aren't my area of knowledge, so I can't give a reliable answer for it without doing research on it. Sorry, I'm afraid you'll have to look into that for yourself.