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Papers by Carla A. Pfeffer

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Background Growing numbers of men, trans/masculine, and non-binary people are becoming gestationa... more Background Growing numbers of men, trans/masculine, and non-binary people are becoming gestational parents, yet very little is known about experiences of pregnancy loss among this diverse population. Methods The study employed a cross sectional design. Interviews were undertaken with a convenience sample of 51 trans/masculine and non-binary people who had undertaken at least one pregnancy, living in either Australia, the United States, Canada, or the European Union (including the United Kingdom). Participants were recruited by posts on Facebook and Twitter, via researcher networks, and by community members. 16 (31.2%) of the participants had experienced a pregnancy loss and are the focus of this paper. Thematic analysis was used to analyse interview responses given by these 16 participants to a specific question asking about becoming pregnant and a follow up probe question about pregnancy loss. Results Thematic analysis of interview responses given by the 16 participants led to the ...

International Journal of Transgender Health

American Psychologist

The psy disciplines (i.e., psychiatry, psychology, psychoanalysis, and psychotherapy) have played... more The psy disciplines (i.e., psychiatry, psychology, psychoanalysis, and psychotherapy) have played a significant role in shaping understandings of transgender people's lives in ways that are transnormative (i.e., by emphasizing one particular account of what it means to be transgender). This paper documents 1) how the rise of the psy disciplines created opportunities for transgender people to access treatment (but that such access often required tacit acceptance of transnormativity), and 2) how transgender people have resisted transnormative accounts within the psy disciplines. More specifically, this paper explores how both the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, and what is now the World Professional Association for Transgender Health's Standards of Care, have often enshrined highly regulatory accounts of transgender people's lives, while also changing over time, in part due to the contributions of transgender people. The paper concludes by considering recent contributions by transgender people in terms of the use of informed consent models of care and clinical research, and highlights the ongoing marginalization of transgender people in terms of access to ethical, trans-competent care.

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Journal of homosexuality, Jan 12, 2018

Access to inclusive, equitable healthcare is central to the well-being of all college students an... more Access to inclusive, equitable healthcare is central to the well-being of all college students and their environments, yet little is known about LGBTQ students' experiences with university health services. In this article, individual interviews with a convenience sample of fourteen LGBTQ-identified students at a large public university in the South were analyzed in order to explore their perceptions of and experiences with the university's health center and its services. Our findings demonstrate that the university is not adequately meeting their healthcare needs. Participants' narratives offer insights into how to improve campus-based health services for LGBTQ students.

Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews

Archives of Sexual Behavior, 2016

JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact

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Teaching Sociology

The authors provide a brief case study of a three-strategy approach for teaching undergraduate re... more The authors provide a brief case study of a three-strategy approach for teaching undergraduate research methods that (1) incorporates active learning assignments and discussion-based learning, (2) integrates a cross-discipline and cross-method faculty guest discussion facilitators series, and (3) focuses on the challenges and rewards of conducting research. The authors propose that opportunities for faculty teaching and research collaborations may result from the implementation of these strategies in the context of dwindling institutional resources and increasing professional demands. Finally, the authors consider how involving students in active learning projects focusing on research, and encouraging more open and honest dialogue about the challenges, struggles, and failures faculty members experience when conducting their own research, generates a reciprocal learning environment that is enriching for both students and faculty members.

AJS; American journal of sociology, 2014

For decades, sociological theory has documented how our lives are simultaneously produced through... more For decades, sociological theory has documented how our lives are simultaneously produced through and against normative structures of sex, gender, and sexuality. These normative structures are often believed to operate along presumably "natural," biological, and essentialized binaries of male/female, man/woman, and heterosexual/ homosexual. However, as the lives and experiences of transgender people and their families become increasingly socially visible, these normative structuring binaries are called into stark question as they fail to adequately articulate and encompass these social actors' identities and social group memberships. Utilizing in-depth interviews with 50 women from the United States, Canada, and Australia, who detail 61 unique relationships with transgender men, this study considers how the experiences of these queer social actors hold the potential to rattle the very foundations upon which normative binaries rest, highlighting the increasingly blurry ...

Journal of Homosexuality, 2014

Exciting work has begun to emerge addressing trans sexuality and partnerships. Miranda Bellwether... more Exciting work has begun to emerge addressing trans sexuality and partnerships. Miranda Bellwether's (2010) inaugural zine, Fucking Trans Women (Issue #0), broke ground by centering trans women's perspectives and experiences around sex and sexuality-including instructional guides on actual sexual practices. The quarterly print zine, Original Plumbing, edited by Amos Mac and Rocco Katastrophe, debuted in 2009 and expanded to the internet in 2010. Original Plumbing features first-person accounts and photography of the lives and experiences of trans men, including focus on sex and sexuality. Morty Diamond's (2011) edited volume, Trans/Love: Radical Sex, Love & Relationships Beyond the Binary and Tracie O'Keefe and Katrina Fox's (2008) edited volume, Trans People in Love, each make contributions to featuring the voices and experiences of trans people and their partners as they discuss sex and relationships. Tristan Taormino's (2011) edited volume, Take Me There: Trans and Genderqueer Erotica centers explicit narratives about trans sexuality. An expanding genre of trans-focused and trans-affirmative pornography has also emerged through Handbasket Productions, Morty Diamond Productions, Pink & White Productions, S.I.R. Video Productions, and T-Wood Pictures, to name just a handful. In academic scholarship on LGBTQ sexualities, however, "trans" too often remains present in acronym only 1 , with very real consequences for inclusion and exclusion both in terms of trans personhood as well as to moving studies of gender and sexual identities, and sexual practices forward (Moore, 2013). When trans sexuality does appear within academic scholarship, it most frequently focuses on forms of sexuality considered problematic, pathological, and/or connected to health risk (e.g., theoretical and empirical work on "autogynephilia" and trans sexual labor). The work in this volume engages with current debates existing within trans sexualities academic communities, including "autogynephilia," in order to deconstruct and perhaps even reframe these debates. We do not shy away from provocation, the "crass," or the materiality and corporeality of sex and sexuality.