Working with transgender young people and their families: A critical developmental approach

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1 Riggs (2019) uses the term “cisgenderist” throughout the text. Although there is not a clear definition in the text, he explains that cisgenderist assumptions presume “there should be some ‘congruence’ between assigned sex and gender” (p. 47). Similar to how “developmentalist” is often used (including in Riggs’ text), cisgenderist might be understood as a set of epistemological, theoretical, and ontological assumptions that erase the subjectivities of trans and gender creative children and reinforce the binary as a taken-for-granted truth.

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Adam W. J. Davies

Adam W. J. Davies is an Assistant Professor in the Human Development and Family Relations department at the University of Guelph. Adam holds a PhD in Curriculum Studies & Teacher Development with collaborative specializations in Sexual Diversity Studies and Women and Gender Studies from the University of Toronto. Adam’s research areas are LGBTQ studies, queer theory, early childhood education, masculinities studies, and critical disability studies.