Trans South

Connell, Raewyn

doi:10.4324/9781003025474-14

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“…In our research, we examined how oppression targeted trans feminine and trans masculine individuals differently (Connell 2012(Connell , 2021. Through the careful reconstruction of transgender trajectories (Aboim & Vasconcelos 2022), we identified a number of critical life moments in which the privilege of masculinity (as a form of symbolic capital) is recognized by trans men and trans masculine individuals.…”

Section: Gender Violence Transphobia and Femmephobiamentioning

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Gender (trans)formations in Europe and beyond: Trans lives and politics from a transnational perspective

Aboim

Vasconcelos

2021

Portuguese Journal of Social Science

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Focusing on trans and gender-diverse people in five European countries (Portugal, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Sweden), the Transrights research addressed one of the most challenging transformations of the institutional order of gender that thus far still reproduces the normative opposition between male and female. Rather than proposing a descriptive monograph, our angle of analysis emphasized the workings of gender through the ‘voices’ of trans people (within and beyond Europe) and their complex forms of self-identification vis-à-vis the institutional apparatus (whether legal, medical, political or even social-scientific). Drawing on an extensive empirical research that combined document analysis of legal and medical developments, multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interviews, we investigated the doings of gender and gender politics. Three major findings are highlighted and summarized through a comparative strategy: trans/gender identifications, creative agency and embodiments; institutional and legal recognition vis-à-vis the medical apparatus and the “marketization” of trans-related healthcare; and discrimination, oppression and violence.

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Section: Gender Violence Transphobia and Femmephobiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender (trans)formations in Europe and beyond: Trans lives and politics from a transnational perspective

Aboim

Vasconcelos

2021

Portuguese Journal of Social Science

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Beyond the Incongruence of Gender Identity. Expanding the Political-Theoretical Imaginary of Trans Studies

Llaveria Caselles

2023

FemPol

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This article seeks to reclaim Trans Studies as a space for political-theoretical practice committed to radical social transformation from its current state of superficiality and frustration. In a first step, the article proposes a critique of the ‘gender identity’ paradigm as a unique and fundamental contribution by Trans Studies scholarship, which exposes how the framework of ‘gender identity’ reproduces forms of othering, reductionism and coloniality. Building on this critique, the centrality of ‘gender identity’ as an analytical category in current Trans Studies writing becomes problematic and in need of explanation. In a second step, the article critically interrogates the impact of a liberal transgender rights project and its strategic notion of ‘gender identity’ on Trans Studies scholarship. It argues for the necessity to open up the political-theoretical imaginary of Trans Studies, explicitly including Marxist-feminist currents. The article finally proposes three political-theoretical commitments for Trans Studies.

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Trans South

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Gender (trans)formations in Europe and beyond: Trans lives and politics from a transnational perspective

Gender (trans)formations in Europe and beyond: Trans lives and politics from a transnational perspective

Beyond the Incongruence of Gender Identity. Expanding the Political-Theoretical Imaginary of Trans Studies

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