Co-producing trans ethical research

Abstract

This chapter engages with the way in which the emergence of trans discourses challenge conceptualisations and practices encountered within ethical processes in research. Advancing progressive research merits critical reflection and a productive rethinking in sexuality and gender studies. Our engagement with ethical issues here is oriented towards addressing questions of how trans subjectivities challenge and develop understandings of gender and sexuality expressed within research settings, and the extent to which research practices are fit for engaging trans subjects. Our understandings of trans have been formed through participant engagement within research, such as in that outlined in the case studies in this chapter. We specifically understand trans to include nonbinary, genderqueer and genderfluid people as a result of these engagements. We begin outlining concepts, practices and procedures in ethical approaches in a brief summary of in this we issues. engagement.