The trans challenge. Considerations for a situated approach of sex/gender identities
Transsexual and transgender identities have been the subject of much debate in recent decades. Approaching these identities raises stimulating challenges to dominant understandings of sex/gender identities. This paper discusses some of these challenges and their implications for the psychosocial comprehension of non-normative identities. Firstly, we outline some basic coordinates from where we approach the issue of identity and, particularly, of sex/gender identity. Then we reflect upon how trans identities can, from a critical perspective, undermine identitarian essentialism and challenge the pathologizing biomedical perspective. This is followed by a brief outline of the multiplicity identity positions and political interests that prevails within the transgender community. Finally, it is suggested, through the figure of the trans-knowledge, a situated perspective to approach this multiplicity that would allow for a transformative coexistence of positions and escape homogenizing theorizations.
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| Format: | Digital revista |
| Language: | spa |
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Universidad de Chile. Programa Domeyko
2011
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| Online Access: | https://sye.uchile.cl/index.php/RSE/article/view/14659 |
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