Albury Kath, Dietzel Christopher, Pym Tinonee, Vivienne Son, Cook Teddy
Media and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia.
Department of Integrated Education, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Health Sociol Rev. 2021 Mar;30(1):72-86. doi: 10.1080/14461242.2020.1851610. Epub 2020 Nov 22.
This article reflects on 14 Australian trans dating app users' accounts of feeling safer (and less safe) when using apps, as well as their experiences of sexual healthcare. We explore both app use and healthcare in the context of the interdisciplinary field of 'digital intimacies', considering the ways that digital technologies and cultures of technological use both shape and are shaped by broader professional and cultural norms relating to sexuality and gender. Drawing on Preciado's [(2013). . The Feminist Press] framework of 'pharmacopornographisation', the analysis aims to contextualise participants' experiences of being 'seen' and 'known' by health professionals and other app users. Our findings indicate that both dating apps and sexual health services rely on reductive systems of sorting and categorisation that reinforce binary understandings of genders and sexualities in order to facilitate data management and information sharing practices. Yet these same sorting and filtering technologies can also help trans app users avoid harassment, form intimate connections and seek appropriate healthcare.
本文反思了14位澳大利亚跨性别约会应用程序用户在使用应用程序时感到更安全（和不太安全）的情况，以及他们的性健康保健经历。我们在“数字亲密关系”这一跨学科领域的背景下探讨应用程序的使用和医疗保健，考虑数字技术和技术使用文化如何塑造与性和性别相关的更广泛的专业和文化规范，以及如何被这些规范所塑造。借鉴普雷西亚多（2013年，《女权主义出版社》）的“药物色情化”框架，该分析旨在将参与者被医疗专业人员和其他应用程序用户“看到”和“了解”的经历置于具体情境中。我们的研究结果表明，约会应用程序和性健康服务都依赖于简化的分类和排序系统，这些系统强化了对性别和性取向的二元理解，以便于数据管理和信息共享实践。然而，这些相同的分类和筛选技术也可以帮助跨性别应用程序用户避免骚扰、建立亲密关系并寻求适当的医疗保健。
