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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oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article-146592011-08-01T00:11:08Z The trans challenge. Considerations for a situated approach of sex/gender identities El desafío trans. Consideraciones para un abordaje situado de las identidades de sexo/género Martínez, Antar Montenegro, Marisela Transgender identities transsexuality despathologization situated knowledges trans-knowledges. Identidades transgénero transexualidad despatologización conocimientos situados trans-conocimientos. 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. Las identidades transexuales y transgénero han sido tema de extenso debate durante las últimas décadas. Su abordaje a menudo plantea estimulantes desafíos a la comprensión dominante de las identidades de sexo/género. En este artículo buscamos trazar y discutir algunos de los desafíos planteados la comprensión psicosocial de las identidades no-normativas de sexo/género. En un primer momento, esbozamos brevemente las coordenadas teóricas donde nos situamos para aproximarnos al tema de la identidad y, particularmente, a la identidad sexogenérica. A continuación damos cuenta de cómo las identidades trans, desde perspectivas críticas, socavan las identidades esenciales de sexo/género al tiempo que desafían la perspectiva biomédica dominante que las patologiza. Posteriormente buscamos avanzar un breve bosquejo de la multiplicidad y la diferencia de posiciones identitarias y políticas que prevalece al interior de la cuestión trans. Finalmente, se sugiere, a través de la figura de los trans-conocimientos, una perspectiva situada para el abordaje de esta multiplicidad que permita la coexistencia transformadora y escape de teorizaciones homogeneizantes Universidad de Chile. Programa Domeyko 2011-07-18 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion html application/pdf https://sye.uchile.cl/index.php/RSE/article/view/14659 10.5354/rse.v0i2.14659 Revista Sociedad y Equidad; Núm. 2 (2011): Julio 0718-9990 spa https://sye.uchile.cl/index.php/RSE/article/view/14659/14981 https://sye.uchile.cl/index.php/RSE/article/view/14659/15724 |
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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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