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The Disability and Diagnosis Nexus: Transgender Men Navigating Mental Health Care Services

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In this chapter we seek to examine the nexus of disability and diagnosis in the context of transgender men’s experiences of mental health. In referring to a nexus between disability and diagnosis, our intent is to highlight the ways in which transgender men may often experience a competing set of demands when accessing mental health care services, demands that may render invisible chronic mental health concerns. In order to illustrate this claim we present a small set of findings from two projects that focused on Australian transgender men and mental health. From these we conclude with a discussion of what a disability model of transgender mental health has to offer in terms of ensuring supportive and inclusive mental health services to transgender men.

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    Damien W. Riggs & Clare Bartholomaeus

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    Cassandra Loeser

  2. Communication, Information Studies and Languages, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

    Vicki Crowley

  3. School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia

    Barbara Pini

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Riggs, D.W., Bartholomaeus, C. (2017). The Disability and Diagnosis Nexus: Transgender Men Navigating Mental Health Care Services. In: Loeser, C., Crowley, V., Pini, B. (eds) Disability and Masculinities. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53477-4_3

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