Transgender identity, transgenre people, Algerian diaspora, LGBTQIA+ communities, social recognition, identity affirmation, transsexuality, societal constraints, Muslim religion, gender identity, trans identity journey, Male to Female MTF, transference identity, Arabic literature, identity freedom, societal gaze, personal experience, psychiatric analysis, trans people essentialization, identity shame, liberated tone, Oran city tolerance, Skikda commune, Marie-Pierre Pruvot Bambi, Rhoulem fictional account, transgenre characters trajectories, comparative study, France immigration, Algeria LGBTQIA+ tolerance, societal influence, family constraints, public space identity, trans identity evolution, childhood gender identity, adolescent struggles, trans people experiences, societal recognition impact
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A comparative study on the trajectories of transgenre individuals in Algeria and the Algerian diaspora in France, exploring identity affirmation and societal recognition.
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[...] https://shs.hal.science/halshs-02562586 Monheim, M. (2014). Multiple identity issues among homosexual or trans people, from Arab-Muslim immigration backgrounds. Family Therapy and Network Practices Critical Notebooks 91-107. [...]
[...] Secondly, I would like to say that bullying in schools in Algeria is a subject that the media never talk about. This traumatic episode made me depressed and I thought about suicide several times, especially after my rape. So what I want to say, let us live our lives peacefully and stop associating everything with religion.' She then highlights the link that Arab-Muslim societies make between the concept of transidentity and the concept of sin that would not be authorized by God. [...]
[...] When his mother decides not to put him in a school but in a sewing workshop, Rhoulem's unease grows: 'And then, one day, who knows why, everything changed. We were at work when it happened. Everything was calm, we were humming little funny tunes to amuse the girls. Rhoulem, meanwhile, was getting bad ideas in his head: the desire to flee. He had talked about it to Ginane, who had hastened to warn me. Rhoulem's explanations remained vague. Spending his days and nights in this place, he had had more than enough. [...]
[...] Marie-Pierre Pruvot became Bambi and notably a famous artist of Parisian cabarets at Madame Arthur. Then it was in Paris and during his years in the Parisian cabarets that he decided to start his transition by taking estrogen and to make the necessary steps to be recognized as a female gender. Conclusion This third part, which is a comparative study of the trajectories of Algerian trans people who lived only in Algeria for some and in Algeria then in more Westernized societies such as France, shows that childhood and adolescence can be very difficult and painful periods for these people. [...]
[...] Comparative study of the trajectories of transgenre characters who lived in Algeria only and those who later immigrated to France from the Algerian diaspora I. Research Methodology In the continuation of our writing, we will focus on the trajectories of transgenre people who have lived in Algeria only and those from the Algerian diaspora who have lived in France. What will interest us through this comparison is to analyze how the societies in which these characters evolve can be influenced by the dogmas and influences of society, and in what ways the uprooting of the country of origin or the original environment can play on a deep transformation of the transgenre or transsexual person's identity. [...]
