Okada ( 2022) considers gender performance and migration among Filipino transgender women entertainers in Japan. Using an art-based focus group approach, their findings illustrate the intersectional way that participants’ multiple identities as immigrants, Trans women, and Latinas impact their fight for inclusion across geographic, economic, and sociopolitical borders. ( 2002) consider the impact of migration on the health and wellbeing of Latin American trans women living in Canada. We introduce the articles below as they have been organized into four different sections: (1) Immigration and Migration (2) Intersecting Dimensions of Oppression (3) Health Disparities and Minority Stress and (4) Perspectives on Healing.Īn understanding of trans BIPOC experience is first gleaned by considering the scholarship presented in the Immigration and Migration section. The authors utilize a range of methodological approaches to explore the experiences of trans BIPOC including arts-based methods, autoethnography, case studies, community-based participatory research, focus groups, narrative interviews, photovoice, semi-structured interviews, and survey methodology. Our special double issue is comprised of sixteen articles, representing authors from six countries (Australia, Canada, India, Japan, Spain, US), and seventeen disciplines (Counseling, Education, Family Studies, Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, Global Public Health, Health Policy, Higher Education, Human Services, Population Behavioral Health, Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Psychology, Public Health, Nursing, Social Work, Sociology, Teacher Education and Leadership, Translational Health). We know that now, more than ever, that this is of the utmost importance as the global pandemic has disproportionately affected our (already under-resourced) trans communities (Hawke et al., 2021 Perez-Brumer & Silva-Santisteban, 2020). COVID-19 changed life as we knew it and we are still grappling with the worldwide pandemic whose end no one knows. We were, once again, faced with sudden, life-altering challenges that were broadcasted on a global scale. Nothing, however, could have prepared us for 2020. We found that we also needed that space for ourselves as we both faced sudden, life-altering events in our lives during the 2019 calendar year.

We were clear that the humanization of transgender BIPOC would not only be contained within the final product, but also needed to be honored throughout our process. To achieve this vision, we allowed extra time for authors to ask questions, revise manuscripts, and balance other priorities in their lives. Our vision for the special issue was to showcase a diverse representation across authors and across a range of topics affecting our international transgender BIPOC communities. That it has taken three years to bring this special issue to publication is not lost on us. Therefore, in 2019, we put together a call for papers for the special issue, and began receiving the submissions found in this volume. were not the only voices that needed to be raised. The need to amplify and uplift the most subaltern voices was paramount, and we knew that transgender BIPOC in the U.S. We were confronted with the reality that any action against the transgender community as a whole disproportionately affected transgender Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) who we knew also held other identities facing oppression, such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer folx people with disabilities immigrants and undocumented folx elders, and more. transgender community (Gonzalez et al., 2018, 2022). were two years into the Trump Era which was proving to be dedicated to eliminating the humanity and legitimacy of transgender people as the Trump Administration repealed more and more protections for the U.S.

We began discussing the need for this special issue in the Fall of 2018.

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