Not thinking straight : transgender individuals and compulsory heterosexuality in Singapore

• Main Author: M Priyanka Nair
• Other Authors: Sun Hsiao-Li Shirley
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/66176
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Singapore has a strong ideology of compulsory heterosexuality that manifests itself as systematic violence against transgender individuals. As such, transgender individuals need to negotiate their gender identity and perform their gender according to the various institutions that they engage with. T...