Location
Student Center
Document Type
Poster
Start Date
19-8-2025 1:30 PM
End Date
19-8-2025 2:30 PM
Description
The need and desire for diverse perspectives within young adult (YA) literature led to a boom in the amount of stories featuring trans people at the start of the 21st century and has continued to this day. However these perspectives have not all been positive with earlier books written featuring viewpoints that would be seen by a trans individual as not reflective of their lived experiences. This project aims to compare the depictions of trans people in trans YA from the start of the 21st century up to the present day. The perspectives used within this project will be from a curated list of books within the YA genre that is explicitly about a trans individual since the year 2000. The methodology used to judge if a depiction is positive will be based on pre-existing scholarship and based on common sentiments from the trans community.
Accompanying Research Paper
Included in
Children's and Young Adult Literature Commons, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Commons
Problematic ideas for a problematic group: Untangling common depictions of transgender characters in Young Adult Literature
Student Center
The need and desire for diverse perspectives within young adult (YA) literature led to a boom in the amount of stories featuring trans people at the start of the 21st century and has continued to this day. However these perspectives have not all been positive with earlier books written featuring viewpoints that would be seen by a trans individual as not reflective of their lived experiences. This project aims to compare the depictions of trans people in trans YA from the start of the 21st century up to the present day. The perspectives used within this project will be from a curated list of books within the YA genre that is explicitly about a trans individual since the year 2000. The methodology used to judge if a depiction is positive will be based on pre-existing scholarship and based on common sentiments from the trans community.