Goldie Peter D, Chatterjee Isha
Department of Psychology, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ USA.
Department of Sociology, Columbia University, New York, NY USA.
SN Soc Sci. 2021;1(10):249. doi: 10.1007/s43545-021-00255-x. Epub 2021 Oct 6.
COVID-19 has presented unique and unprecedented struggles for all people, yet they tend to be magnified among marginalized communities. Indeed, in the United States, transgender (trans) people experience oppression in many facets of their lives, which places them at an increased risk for both COVID-19 exposure and complications. This oppression can be broadly categorized into two distinct, yet interrelated categories: health disparities (e.g., decreased immune health) and structural barriers (e.g., employment discrimination, policing). Recent scholarship has examined trans people's risk for COVID-19 exposure and mortality, however few articles examine intersectional identities, and, to our knowledge, none have interrogated oppressive power structures (e.g., the prison industrial complex). We aim to fill these critical gaps and argue that it is imperative for cisgender people to partner with trans communities to dismantle these harmful systems, positively impacting the lives of trans individuals during the pandemic and beyond. We make several key recommendations for researchers, policymakers, healthcare workers, and allies to do so.
新冠疫情给所有人带来了独特且前所未有的困难，而这些困难在边缘化群体中往往被放大。事实上，在美国，跨性别者在生活的许多方面都遭受压迫，这使他们面临更高的感染新冠病毒及出现并发症的风险。这种压迫大致可分为两个不同但相互关联的类别：健康差距（如免疫健康下降）和结构性障碍（如就业歧视、治安问题）。最近的学术研究探讨了跨性别者感染新冠病毒及死亡的风险，然而很少有文章研究交叉身份认同，据我们所知，也没有文章审视压迫性权力结构（如监狱产业综合体）。我们旨在填补这些关键空白，并认为顺性别者必须与跨性别群体合作，以拆除这些有害系统，在疫情期间及之后对跨性别者的生活产生积极影响。我们为此向研究人员、政策制定者、医护人员及同盟者提出了几项关键建议。
