The issue of “expertise,” while not always termed as such, has long sat at the center of much trans theory. Initially held only by medical authorities, transgender expertise has shifted alongside changes in cultural attitudes and diagnosis models: transgender individuals now often find themselves conversationally positioned as “expert” on the phenomenological experience of being transgender — even if they do not willingly take on that social role. This article considers, first, the role of the trans speaker as expert, and second, the use of expert discourse or expertness (Nguyen 2006) by trans male video bloggers (vloggers) on YouTube. As highly public individuals, these vloggers strategically assume the expert role to correct viewer “misbehavior.” In their talk, vloggers utilize a specific mode of recipient design, advice-giving, to focus attention on viewers’ lack of knowledge and away from the vlogger’s subjective experience. If successful, their talk forecloses on the possibility of further viewer challenges.
2022. “The Transgender Craze Seducing Our [Sons]”; or, All the Trans Guys Are Just Dating Each Other. TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 9:1 ► pp. 44 ff.
Armangau, Yael
2023. « Bonjour tout le monde […]. J’ai besoin d’écrire ce message pour trouver du soutien » : soutien en ligne et éthique du care trans. Questions de communication :43 ► pp. 61 ff.
Armangau, Yael & Julien Figeac
2021. Social Support Networks within Transgender Facebook Groups: Facing a “Therapeutic Shield” in France. In Advances in Trans Studies: Moving Toward Gender Expansion and Trans Hope [Advances in Gender Research, ], ► pp. 207 ff.
Bruns, Hanna
2023. “That’s all it takes to be trans”: counter-strategies to hetero- and transnormative discourse on YouTube. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2023:283 ► pp. 53 ff.
Chojnicka, Joanna
2024. Transitioning (on the) Internet: Shifting Challenges and Contradictions of Ethics of Studying Online Gender Transition Narratives. Qualitative Sociology Review 20:1 ► pp. 60 ff.
2021. YouTube as a site of desubjugation for trans and nonbinary youth: pedagogical potentialities and the limits of whiteness. Pedagogy, Culture & Society 29:5 ► pp. 753 ff.
Simpson, Ellen & Bryan Semaan
2021. For You, or For"You"?. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 4:CSCW3 ► pp. 1 ff.
Udy, Dan
2018. “Am I Gonna Become Famous When I Get My Boobs Done?”. TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 5:2 ► pp. 275 ff.
Vooris, Jessica Ann
2021. The “New” Trans Child: Pioneering Families and Documentary Television. In Queer Youth Histories, ► pp. 193 ff.
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