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Presented through an intersectionally framed study investigating U.S.-based transmasculine college students' conceptions of masculinity, this paper explores a myriad of methodological and analytical queries by examining trans*ing as method. How might trans*ing taken-for-granted constructs (such as masculinity) full of unnamed – and thus unchallenged – assumptions resist dominant narratives that drive theorising and practice and thus seek solutions and interventions that can improve everyone's lives? What possibilities lie in the asterisk's disruptive potential that can cause us to 'pause in order to reach beyond' (Patel, 2016, p. 88) hegemonic and settler colonial structures of masculinity? How might attending to the relationality of trans identities (Catalano, 2017; Jourian, 2017a; Nicolazzo, 2017), the relational nature of research (Patel, 2016), and the 'process-oriented rather than end-oriented' (Spade, 2015, p. 189) nature of critical trans politics allow us to resist normative and positivistic analytical practices that distill complex data and people into simplistic models and understandings? Divergent and disruptive thinking and arriving at these constructs from unexpected starting points exposes tensions and false binaries in them, points of excess that then have to be transformed to have meaning, driving scholarship and practice towards liberatory potentials.

Latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is defined as a state of persistent immune response to stimulation by Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens without evidence of clinically manifested active tuberculosis (TB) disease. Individuals with LTBI represent a reservoir for active TB cases. The detection and management of LTBI is now a key component of the World Health Organization's End TB Strategy and the Government of Canada's federal framework for action on TB prevention and control. This is because people with LTBI can progress to active TB or undergo reactivation, a risk that is greatly increased in those with immunocompromising conditions. This overview provides a summary of LTBI and reactivation risk, as well as the recent advances in the diagnosis and treatment of LTBI.

Trans is usually defined as the set of practices and identities outside of the binary gender system and includes individuals who identity as genderqueer, transgender or transsexual. Trans theories refer to a range of approaches including medical and psychiatric theories, performativity and social constructionist theories, and queer theory, that are used to explain transgender practices and identities.

Abstract"Trans*historicities: A Roundtable Discussion" offers reflections on how thinking about time and chronology has impacted scholarship in trans studies in recent years. Contributing scholars come from numerous disciplines that touch on history, and have expertise in far-ranging geographic and temporal fields. As a broad conversation about some of the potential possibilities and difficulties in seeking out—and finding—trans in historical contexts, this discussion focuses on the complex interrelations between trans, time, and history.

La comunidad trans está siendo objeto de debate en la actualidad debido a los cambios legislativos que se están proponiendo para garantizar su protección. A lo largo de la historia, este colectivo se ha patologizado y estigmatizado provocando una discriminación en ámbitos sociales, laborales, sanitarios, etc. Aunque se haya avanzado en cuanto a la estigmatización, la opresión sufrida por la sociedad genera aún hoy que estas personas sean más propensas a tener problemas de salud y más dificultades en obtener las mismas oportunidades que la población general. Por lo tanto, evaluamos las actitudes y comportamientos discriminatorios hacia las personas trans en la sociedad española en personas que no pertenecen a dicho colectivo. En este estudio, se llevó a cabo una investigación con mayores de edad, de cualquier orientación sexual en la que se usa la Escala de Actitudes Negativas hacia las personas Trans (EANT) y la Escala de Ideología de Género y Transfobia (GTS). En general, las cifras de aceptación de este colectivo en España son mayores que en otros países del mundo ya que las políticas de este país así lo reflejan, encontrando entre nuestros resultados que quienes exponen tener una ideología política de izquierdas, las personas que no se definen como heterosexuales y las que pertenecen al grupo de edad más joven son quienes menos discriminación ejercen sobre el colectivo trans.