Abstract
Recent studies have found trans individuals to experience high rates of eating disorders. Prior studies have mixed findings of eating disorder rates of trans/nonbinary people with eating disorders. Recent and prior studies, though, have primarily originated within Public Health and Psychology, with little to no research examining trans/nonbinary people’s experiences with eating disorders in the field of Sociology. As such, we analyzed 16 blogs and vlogs (video blogs) of trans/nonbinary people speaking and/or writing about the onset of their eating disorders, reasons for development of eating disorders, and experiences in accessing treatment. Content analysis of these blogs and vlogs serve as an exploratory analysis to provide suggestions for future research, including: institutional cisnormativity in eating disorder treatment, the use of eating disorders as a way of coping with the anxieties of doing gender in a binary society, and the relations of body dysmorphia and gender dysphoria.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 870-893 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| Journal | Sociological Inquiry |
| Volume | 92 |
| Issue number | S1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - May 2022 |
Funding
No sources of funding were used to assist in the preparation of this article or the research study.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Sociology and Political Science