A.J. Lowik is postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Gender and Sexual Health Equity, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia.

Dance and choreography are more than metaphors in A.J. Lowik’s fetching blend of social science and cultural studies. Those terms offer analytically apt descriptions of how reproductive healthcare provisions for trans people seeks to script the movements of providers and recipients alike in certain ways, while the individual participants find ways to move creatively within these structural constraints. In the end, Lowik calls upon us all to imagine new ways of moving together in ways that better serve our lives.

• List of FiguresList of TablesPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1 – Theoretical OrientationChapter 2 – Who I Am and Why It MattersChapter 3 – The Participants and the ProcessChapter 4 – Findings: Navigating Informational ErasureChapter 5 – Findings: Navigating Institutional ErasureChapter 6 – Findings: Navigating Repronormativities and TransnormativitiesChapter 7 – Findings: Navigating Identity Disclosure and ConcealmentConclusionAppendix A: Recruitment and LimitationsAppendix B: On Participatory PhotographyReferencesIndexAbout the Author

A.J. Lowik is postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Gender and Sexual Health Equity, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia.

Dance and choreography are more than metaphors in A.J. Lowik’s fetching blend of social science and cultural studies. Those terms offer analytically apt descriptions of how reproductive healthcare provisions for trans people seeks to script the movements of providers and recipients alike in certain ways, while the individual participants find ways to move creatively within these structural constraints. In the end, Lowik calls upon us all to imagine new ways of moving together in ways that better serve our lives.

• List of FiguresList of TablesPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1 – Theoretical OrientationChapter 2 – Who I Am and Why It MattersChapter 3 – The Participants and the ProcessChapter 4 – Findings: Navigating Informational ErasureChapter 5 – Findings: Navigating Institutional ErasureChapter 6 – Findings: Navigating Repronormativities and TransnormativitiesChapter 7 – Findings: Navigating Identity Disclosure and ConcealmentConclusionAppendix A: Recruitment and LimitationsAppendix B: On Participatory PhotographyReferencesIndexAbout the Author

A.J. Lowik is postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Gender and Sexual Health Equity, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia.

Dance and choreography are more than metaphors in A.J. Lowik’s fetching blend of social science and cultural studies. Those terms offer analytically apt descriptions of how reproductive healthcare provisions for trans people seeks to script the movements of providers and recipients alike in certain ways, while the individual participants find ways to move creatively within these structural constraints. In the end, Lowik calls upon us all to imagine new ways of moving together in ways that better serve our lives.

• List of FiguresList of TablesPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1 – Theoretical OrientationChapter 2 – Who I Am and Why It MattersChapter 3 – The Participants and the ProcessChapter 4 – Findings: Navigating Informational ErasureChapter 5 – Findings: Navigating Institutional ErasureChapter 6 – Findings: Navigating Repronormativities and TransnormativitiesChapter 7 – Findings: Navigating Identity Disclosure and ConcealmentConclusionAppendix A: Recruitment and LimitationsAppendix B: On Participatory PhotographyReferencesIndexAbout the Author