<p>The paper provides insight into the Hamburg subproject of the joint project TRANS*KIDS between universities of applied sciences/universities in Hamburg, Göttingen and Münster. The aim is to analyze (potential risks of) discrimination and stigmatization of trans* children and adolescents through different perspectives (trans* children and adolescents, parents, medical experts, nurses, medical/administrative staff, trans* peer groups etc.). I present insights into 15 qualitative interviews with nurses, medical staff and administrators (psychiatry, psychosomatic, art therapy, child medicine, vocal therapy, endocrinology etc.) and experiences from different workshops with health actors from the years 2021, 2022 and 2023. The knowledge we generate will be processed, made citable, and translated into teaching materials, which will be completed this summer.</p> <p>We were able to identify the following dimensions that are relevant in everyday life, work practices, and work cultures:<br /> a) deadnaming/misgendering,<br /> b) trans-rejecting attitudes in hallway conversations and handoffs,<br /> c) spatial arrangements, and<br /> d) minority stress formations.<br /> Furthermore, however, counterstrategies were also developed and some of the interviewees saw themselves as knowledge mediators within the social network of a practice, clinic or ward despite resistance.</p> <p>The dimensions impressively show how individual, institutional and structural dimensions interact and produce the health system in the first place with their knowledge, responsibilities and processes. These include biographical work experiences and self-conceptions as well as working conditions, strict time regimes, the effects of Covid-19 on the health care system, vacant positions, and medical interpretive sovereignties/ knowledge production and bureaucracies such as health insurance companies.</p>
The paper will show how trans* identity is negotiated through medical, nursing and care practices in everday life, health policies and laws.
