Miriam Abelson, PhD candidate, Department of Sociology, "Complex Lives: Interviews with Transmen in the Southeastern United States."
"Funds from a CSWS Graduate Research Grant and a grant from the UO Center on Diversity and Community (CODAC) allowed me to travel to the southeastern United States in summer 2010 to interview transmen, people whose bodies had been assigned as female at birth who transitioned to live as men. I traveled a total of 3,000 miles within the Southeast in three weeks to conduct interviews and field observations in Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, and South Carolina. The sixteen men I interviewed were ages twenty-one to forty-nine, came from urban to rural backgrounds, and represented a range of socioeconomic backgrounds and incomes." - Abelson, 2011 Annual Review
Complex Lives: Interviews with Transmen in the Southeastern United States
When I told people of my proposed research project with transgender people in the Southeast I met with disbelief from many quarters. That disbelief stemmed from the idea that there were few, if any, transgender people in the Southeast and that those that lived there must live in such constant fear that they would never expose themselves by consenting to an interview.