Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.
J Homosex. 2021 Oct 15;68(12):2024-2046. doi: 10.1080/00918369.2020.1717838. Epub 2020 Jan 28.
This article aims to apply the social construction of target populations to policy regarding transgender individuals in the U.S. military. After presenting an overview on diversity in the military, parallels were drawn between policy changes regarding the inclusion of openly transgender individuals in the military to those leading up to the inclusion of sexual minorities in the military. This article then details the controversy regarding the inclusion of transgender service members and compares the rationale given for their exclusion from the U.S. military to existing empirical research. Finally, the present work applies the social construction of target populations-a framework for understanding the public policy process-to discourse and policy decisions regarding transgender individuals and sexual minorities. By doing so, this article illustrates this theoretical framework's potential for illustrating the importance of social constructions in understanding the policy.
本文旨在将目标人群的社会建构应用于美国军队中跨性别者的政策。在介绍了军队中的多样性概述后，本文将关于公开跨性别者纳入军队的政策变化与导致性少数群体纳入军队的政策变化进行了比较。本文随后详细介绍了关于接纳跨性别军人的争议，并将他们被排除在美国军队之外的理由与现有实证研究进行了比较。最后，本工作将目标人群的社会建构（一种理解公共政策过程的框架）应用于关于跨性别者和性少数群体的话语和政策决策。通过这样做，本文说明了这一理论框架在理解政策中的社会建构的重要性方面的潜力。
