Disrupting the gender binary in the conceptualization of domestic violence - Ashton Turcotte, Student Fellow

Domestic Violence: A Hidden Crisis Affecting All Genders and Sexual Orientations 43.8% 61.1% of 26% of 37.3% of lesbian bisexual gay men of bisexual women women men 54% of 35% of 29% of trans people heterosexual heterosexual women men 4 Disrupting the gender binary in the conceptualization of domestic violence The Gender binary: The system that expects people to fit within either two genders of “m. [...] 5 Disrupting the gender binary in the conceptualization of domestic violence Social Context and Methods My experiences as someone who To explore the research question at may be seen as nonbinary and hand, I first did a literature review transmasculine, existing outside breaking down the three themes of the gender binary, has greatly of gender, domestic violence, and affected my approach to the pee. [...] Where the prevalence of the gender binary is Experiences of people that are LGBTQ2S+ most dominantly seen, is in the method that or simply anyone who does not fit within feminist activists used to shift the societal the expectations of the gender binaries are discourse from the private to the public. [...] the norms of the gender binary system are The myths of the “Lesbian Utopia” and of the discredited. [...] which challenges the masculinity narrative 14 Disrupting the gender binary in the conceptualization of domestic violence Why is it important to disrupt the system? Domestic violence is conceptualized as part them from establishing alternatives to abusive of the gender binary system and assumes relationships.