Zur Ausbildung pädagogischer Fachkräfte und Studierender der Sozialen Arbeit an der Universität Luxemburg im Bereich der Sexuellen Bildung für Menschen mit Beeinträchtigungen

in Urban, Maria; Wienholz, Sabine; Khamis, Celina (Eds.) Sexuelle Bildung für das Lehramt: Zur Notwendigkeit der Professionalisierung (2022)

Since the winter semester 2020/21, the Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) has been offering the curriculum resulting from the ERASMUS+ project "TRASE - Training in Sex Education ... [more ▼]

Since the winter semester 2020/21, the Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) has been offering the curriculum resulting from the ERASMUS+ project "TRASE - Training in Sex Education for People with Disabilities" as a course on sex education in a modified form for educational professionals who care for people with disabilities and for students studying for the Bachelor in Social Science and Education (BSSE). This offer is intended to contribute to meeting the need for sound knowledge and professional competence in this field. The purpose of this paper is, after a brief introduction of the TRASE project, to outline the organisational anchoring and structure of the TRASE course at the University of Luxembourg and to reflect on its implementation. We argue that the heterogeneity of the participants in the development phase and in the implementation as a seminar is a particular strength of the course. [less ▲]

Interactions between the regulation of homosexuality and transsexuality since the enactment of the Transsexual Act

in History | Sexuality | Law (2021)

Drawing upon Federal Constitutional Court decisions on relevant provisions of the Transsexual Act and legislation on same-sex partnerships, this contribution traces how the regulation of homosexuality and ... [more ▼]

Drawing upon Federal Constitutional Court decisions on relevant provisions of the Transsexual Act and legislation on same-sex partnerships, this contribution traces how the regulation of homosexuality and transsexuality impacted upon each other since the Transsexual Act was enacted in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1981. [less ▲]

Conceptualising and representing sex and gender diversity in sex education material in the context of disability: The TRASE Word Bank

Presentation (2019, May 09)

Conceptualising and representing sex and gender diversity in sex education material in the context of disability: The TRASE Word Bank According to the UN Convention on the Rights of People with ... [more ▼]

Conceptualising and representing sex and gender diversity in sex education material in the context of disability: The TRASE Word Bank According to the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (UNCRPD, 2006), people with disabilities are entitled to respect for privacy (Art. 22), home and family (Art. 23) and education (Art. 24), including sex education. Considering the ideological and structural impediments to sexuality and reproduction (cf. Löfgren-Mårtenson, 2014; Desjardins, 2012) and the high risk of experiencing sexual violence people with intellectual disabilities face, appropriate sex education takes on a pivotal role in safeguarding a self-determined sexuality and the right to reproduction. From Sept. 2015 to Aug. 2017, the University of Luxembourg was involved in the transnational and interdisciplinary ERASMUS Plus project “Training in Sex Education for People with Disabilities” (TRASE). The objective of this follow-up project to the Grundtvig-funded SEAD project was to design a course sensitive to cultural, national and institutional conditions to train professional carers of people with intellectual and cognitive disabilities to talk about sexuality and to acknowledge the sexual and reproductive rights of their clients. The 13-module-course includes revisions and the development of new tools that are altogether accessible to a broad range of people with learning, intellectual, cognitive and communication difficulties and devised to facilitate communication on issues regarding sexuality. One of the major questions for revising existing or devising new tools, respectively, was how to conceptualise and represent human diversity featuring in contemporary Western societies, hence avoiding that people with intellectual disabilities, who cannot or do not want to follow conservative sexual and gender norms are rendered ever more vulnerable. The TRASE Word Bank draws upon social constructionist and deconstructionist theories of gender and sexuality (e.g. Garfinkel, 1967; Weeks, 1989; Butler, 1990; 1997; Hirschauer, 1994; 1999; Cromwell, 1999; Fausto-Sterling, 2000; Schirmer, 2010) and critical race and intersectional theories (e.g. Crenshaw, 1989). Methodologically, it severs gender from morphology and bases gender on self-definition instead, whilst continuing to acknowledge common genders; presents a variety of body parts in a non-polarising way in its pictograms; uses gender-neutral terminology to describe sexualised body parts; addresses a host of sexual arrangements; devotes equal attention to reproduction and contraception, hence avoiding the widespread notion that people with disabilities cannot or should not reproduce (cf. Siebers, 2012) and presents humans in a non-racialised way. As a result, the TRASE Word Bank attempts to enable people with intellectual and learning disabilities with basic reading competency or who can read with assistance to understand that human sexualities, bodies and genders are diverse, to become aware of sexual options that best suit their individual personalities, to learn to accept themselves as unconventional men, unusual women, trans, non-binary or intersex people, to reinforce their right to decide responsibly on issues relating to reproduction and to learn to respect human diversity. The Trase project home page is available at: https://www.traseproject.com [less ▲]

Entwicklungen der Trans*-Bewegung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

E-print/Working paper (2018)

Trans und sozialer Wandel in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

in Hoenes, Josch; Koch, Michael_a (Eds.) Transfer und Interaktion: Wissenschaft und Aktivismus an den Grenzen heteronormativer Zweigeschlechtlichkeit (2017)

Mein Geschlecht gehört mir!? (Interview by Ulrike Klöppel)

Article for general public (2014)

Section Introduction: Framing Activism

in Hashemi Yekani, Elahe; Kilian, Eveline; Michaelis, Beatrice (Eds.) Queer Futures: Reconsidering Normativity, Activism and the Political (2013)

Vom Sittenverfall zur Trans*_Homo-Ehe: Ausgewählte juristische Entwicklungen zu Trans* in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

in Rathke, Justin B.; Franzen, Jannik (Eds.) trans*_homo: differenzen, allianzen, widersprüche. differences, alliances, contradictions (2012)

Geschlechter- und sexualpolitische Annahmen in zeitgenössischen medizinischen Empfehlungen zur Behandlung von Intersexualität

in Tuider, Elisabeth (Ed.) QuerVerbindungen: Interdisziplinäre Annäherungen an Geschlecht, Sexualität, Ethnizität (2008)

Physische Integrität und Selbstbestimmung: Kritik medizinischer Leitlinien zur Intersexualität

in Zeitschrift für Sexualforschung (2007), 20(3), 176-185