ABSTRACT
How do individuals and groups create and maintain identities, enhance and sustain cultural intelligibility, cultivate and increase a sense of belonging, and negotiate and contest social meanings—indeed communicate—within and across complex sociocultural and geopolitical boundaries? To begin to answer this question and to tap into the potential of the negotiation, crossing, and (re)definition of such boundaries, our chapter provides sketches of a model for transing communication in (inter)cultural contexts. To do so, this chapter consists of three sections: first, a discussion of the process of transing communication with a brief description of a model; second, using the four domains outlined in the model, identification, and review of past research on transgender communication; and third, an exploration of potential implications and new directions for transing communication research in (inter)cultural contexts.
