On May 9th, 2012, the Argentinean Senate converted into law the long collective process, driven by trans* activism, towards the legal recognition of gender identity. The Gender Identity Act (GIA) meant a large contribution to the field of civil and sexual rights interationally, especially in the matter of trans* policy. Nevertheless, what was at stake in the approval of the GIA was not just a step forward in legal terms and at a personal level for trans* people, but a whole set of representations, desires and social stakes on trans* lives and population. Thus, as regards to the scope and achievements of the GIA and its social and parliamentary debates, we can assert that in that realm a specific trans* life does not qualify as a living life. This article addresses the specific ways of presentation and apprehension of trans* lives in parliamentary debates about the GIA, and in social disputes within trans* activism. A biopolitical analysis of gender identity leads us to rethink the social conditions that sustain life and, by the same token, the interpretative frameworks of death.
En las siguientes páginas nos proponemos abordar la caja de herramientas que anima los abordajes alrededor del feminicidio y la violación sexual como figura paradigmática de la violencia heteropatriarcal en nuestra región. Tomaremos como punto de partida lo dicho y escrito por Rita Segato en vistas de dar cuenta de un estado de situación de la crítica en los estudios de género y feministas pero también avanzar en la profundización de una “crítica de la razón feminicida” (Virginia Cano, 2016) desde una perspectiva trans, lesbiana-gay, cuir-queer y posfeminista. Para tal propósito vamos a considerar, en particular, las variadas formas de las masculinidades femeninas, la masculinidad encarnada en cuerpos asignados como mujer, para disputar este conjunto de presupuestos implícitos en la caja de herramientas de Segato.
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