Governing Permanence: Trans Subjects, Time, and the Gender Recognition Act

Grabham, Emily

doi:10.1177/0964663909346200

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“…Gender transition can refer to social transition, physical transformation, or both. Many transgender (hereafter: trans) people do not seek medicalized assistance for transition, which can involve delays other than those created by medicine, such as waits involved in legal name and gender marker changes (Baril, 2016; Currah, 2014; Currah and Moore, 2009; Grabham, 2010; Spade, 2008). 2 And irrespective of any institutional entanglements, the subjective experience of transition itself may involve waiting (Baril, 2018).…”

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“A slow and unrewarding and miserable pause in your life”: Waiting in medicalized gender transition

Pitts‐Taylor

2019

Health (London)

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Waiting is a common experience in medicalized gender transition. In this article, I address subjective experiences of medicalized gender transition through a temporal lens, focusing on personal narratives of wait lists, setbacks, and other delays experienced by trans patients. I consider administered waiting as a biopolitical practice of governance, one that has subjectifying and somatic effects on individuals and that speaks to the role of time in the administration of bodies, sex/gender, and biomedical citizenship. I ground my discussion in narratives created by trans people that chronicle their gender transitions; I analyze a set of gender transition vlogs appearing on YouTube, focusing on temporal aspects of medicalized transition and experiences of waiting. My discussion recognizes that the temporal modes of gender transition are multivalent, but these social media narratives also suggest being made to wait is an experience of power relations, one that is capable of producing submission, weariness, and precarity.

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Section: Introduction: Turning Down Without Turning Offmentioning

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“… 2. Transgender subjects are often made to wait for gender recognition while the authenticity and stability of their identities are measured (see Grabham, 2010). …”

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“A slow and unrewarding and miserable pause in your life”: Waiting in medicalized gender transition

Pitts‐Taylor

2019

Health (London)

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“…32 As techniques of governance, Grabham writes, "temporal constructs … create particular types of embodied legal subject, with particular histories, trajectories and futures." 33 Though Grabham does not examine security temporalities specifically, the question of how juridical decisions and documents create the legal subject of "the proscribed organisation"-with its particular histories and projected futures-is pertinent. Rather than a coherent rationality of proscription, what is emerging can be understood as an "assembly of legal temporalities through a range of disjunctive moves and apparently unlikely actors."…”

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Proscription’s Futures

Goede

2018

Terrorism and Political Violence

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Proscription of individuals and groups potentially linked to terrorism in the form of targeted sanctions have become increasingly controversial in recent years, especially in Europe. Initially considered the less violent alternative when countering terrorism, individual proscriptions have become contested for their impact on due process rights and democratic space. This paper focuses on a key aspect of proscription measures that goes relatively unnoticed: its discourses and practices of time and temporality. It analyses in some depth the rationalities of time evoked, debated, accepted, and rejected in two court cases on individual sanctions. It focuses on two elements at work in these cases: first, the relation between the precautionary and the punitive; second, the politics of establishing and examining terrorist intention. In this manner, it contributes to broader literatures on proscription in two ways. First, it advances the debate on security temporalities in general and the discussion of future-oriented sanctions in particular, by focusing on recent cases and case-law. Second, the paper brings a focus on legal practice to proscription debates. The paper concludes that the juridical repertoire of establishing and assessing intentions is not just broadened but fundamentally altered in the current proscription regime.

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“…In a recent High Court case, a trans woman known as JK challenged the legal requirement that she be recorded as ‘father’ on her children’s birth certificates. Despite self-identifying and living her life as a woman, in the absence of a gender recognition certificate – which takes some time to acquire (see further Grabham, 2010 ) – JK was legally regarded as male, as per her original birth certificate { JK v Register General for England and Wales [2015] EWHC 990 (Admin)}. 7 To complicate matters further, JK’s male name was recorded on her first child’s birth certificate, while her female name appeared on her second child’s.…”

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Reforming birth registration law in England and Wales?

McCandless

2017

Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online

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The Law Commission of England and Wales is considering what its 13th Programme of Law Reform should address. During the consultation process, a project on birth registration law has been mooted. This is a very welcome proposal given that civil birth registration in England and Wales is a compulsory procedure that not only finds its roots in the early Victorian era, but also remains very similar, at least in terms of form and the information that is recorded. I first use two recent legal challenges to illustrate why the current system is coming under increasing pressure. I further use these examples to caution against a law reform agenda that is narrowly focused on the precise information recorded, without a preliminary and wider examination of what the role and purpose of birth registration is, and should be, in society. I argue that this needs to be addressed before the state can justify the parameters of the information recorded. I then use an outline of historical reforms relating to the registration of births outside of marriage to highlight the normative two-parent family model that underpins the birth registration system. I argue that legal reform must be cognizant of the tenacity of this normative family model, particularly in relation to reform proposals surrounding donor conception and the annotation of birth certificates. Finally, I draw attention to wider developments in family law that cast birth registration as a social policy tool for the facilitation of parent–child relationships, particularly unmarried fathers.

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Governing Permanence: Trans Subjects, Time, and the Gender Recognition Act

Cited by 39 publications

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“A slow and unrewarding and miserable pause in your life”: Waiting in medicalized gender transition

“A slow and unrewarding and miserable pause in your life”: Waiting in medicalized gender transition

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