The present article proposes a critical genealogy of the discourses associated with the emergence of transgender category. Coined as a reaction to the medical and psychiatric category of transsexualism, the transgender category has emphasized the political and cultural dimensions of the trans experience. As such, it has attempted to recover trans voices and narratives suppressed by the medical and psychiatric institutions connected to transsexualism. Despite being inclusive of a multiplicity of gender variations, we attempt to argue that the transgender category continues to be defined by the epistemological y political limitations of its northern origin in Anglo-Saxon countries, therefore without breaking away from the normative, colonial, and binary character of the transsexual discourse.
Keywords:
Transgender, transsexualism, trans lives, becoming
Alegre Valencia, Y., & Fiedler Flores, S. (2021). The transgender category and its discontent: a critical genealogy. Revista Punto Género, (16), pp.266–290. https://doi.org/10.5354/2735-7473.2021.65895
