El fantasma de la teoría queer. Respuesta al libro Nadie nace en un cuerpo equivocado de José Errasti y Marino Pérez Álvarez

Abstract

Este artículo pretende responder de manera clara, rigurosa y contundente las falacias formuladas en la reciente y polémica obra Nadie nace en un cuerpo equivocado. Para ello se resumirán y responderán las ideas expresadas en dicha obra capítulo a capítulo. Con esto también se pretende contestar y deshacer los habituales bulos, mitos, tergiversaciones y malentendidos que sobre la teoría queer, la identidad de género y la intersexualidad se han difundido en un sector del feminismo y de la sociedad que han asumido posiciones explícitamente transexcluyentes, pues son precisamente estos mismos prejuicios los que con mayor retórica refleja el libro aquí criticado.

Attitudes towards Trans Men and Women in Spain: An Adaptation of the ATTMW Scale

“…From these positions, they have been able to establish the importance of a phony debate that tries to challenge the scientific consensus of affirmative psychology and international guidelines [8,9], under the premise that they were put in place by a neoliberal queer inquisitive ideology that has irreversible consequences for minors [6]. Accordingly, these groups try to use a language similar to activist languages to present a public social image of an attempt at dialogue and a legitimate claim for their anti-rights positions, but always devaluing and negating the identities of those on the other side of the debate.…”

“…In this respect, FART groups in Psychology and Education have expressed alarm about the profusion of minors visiting gender transition specialists due to-in their words-the visibility of trans issues in the media and social networks, the reduced stigma and the depathologization in addition to the affirmative focus that foments mutilation, in their opinion [6]. Moreover, according to these groups, this entire breeding ground creates a social contagion that produces an outbreak of sudden gender dysphoria, based on the revised study by Litman [10], that ends up in an 80% detransition rate [6].…”

“…In this respect, FART groups in Psychology and Education have expressed alarm about the profusion of minors visiting gender transition specialists due to-in their words-the visibility of trans issues in the media and social networks, the reduced stigma and the depathologization in addition to the affirmative focus that foments mutilation, in their opinion [6]. Moreover, according to these groups, this entire breeding ground creates a social contagion that produces an outbreak of sudden gender dysphoria, based on the revised study by Litman [10], that ends up in an 80% detransition rate [6]. However, although terms such as "rapid-onset gender dysphoria" have been rejected by much of the scientific literature [9,[11][12][13]; although the increase in the number of minors seeking assistance from specialists is due to insufficient or non-existent service in the past [14]; although the role of affirmative therapy is to advocate for general well-being [15] and not to recklessly prescribe single, homogenous reassignment solutions [8]; although the detransition rate is far below 80% [16], ranging between 1% and 2% [17,18] and is usually due to a non-binary tendency or insufficient support [19]; and although being trans is not a contagious fashion (it would be contradictory for one of the most stigmatized and harassed groups [20] to be in fashion), they continue to repeat it, like a mantra.…”

“…Moreover, the rise of the extreme right and ultraconservative organizations alongside groups of cis women and cis men who exclude trans individuals-better known as Feminism-Appropriating Reactionary Transphobes activists (hereinafter FART)-have had an impact on this reversal, endorsing a single way of being: cisnormative [4]. Moreover, certain academic narratives from Spanish Psychology and Education [5,6] have chosen to align themselves with FART discourses around the defense of sex as an innate biological marker, the impossibility of gender selfdetermination, the supposed dictatorship of queer ideology, the danger of erasing women, and the silencing of true feminism [4]. To add realism to their narrative, they make use of invented or conveniently reinterpreted cases [4], in addition to taking advantage of their academic positions, which confers a supposed degree of expertise and scientism upon them.…”