In my thesis I focused on researching the binary gender norm system and the experiences of transgender people within said system. In the first part I presented the notion of transgender and the connecting topic of passing. I also presented the relevant themes surrounding binary gender norms, which in our current society divide people into two specific categories: men and women. The theoretical part also focuses on discrimination and the notion of minority stress; two phenomena that can emerge in the lives of transgender people as a result of gender nonconformity. In the last part of the theoretical framework, I talked about transfeminism, which among other things deals specifically with the issue of matching gender identity and gender expression. In the methodological part, I present the research itself and the process of conducting nine interviews with transgender people. Results show that transgender people do encounter binary gender norms in their everyday life. These affect the way transgender people construct their gender expression. The reason they do this is for their own well-being, but also as a way to avoid different types of discrimination. The way they do this is by passing and creating their gender expression in a more normative way. The research also shows that they not only feel the pressure to stay inside the norms of the binary gender systems in every-day life, but also in front of certain health care providers in the transition process
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