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"Transsexual Empire," Trans Postcoloniality: The Biomedicalization of the Trans Body and the Cultural Politics of Trans Kinship in Northeast Asia and Asian America.
An essay is presented on transsexualism in Northeast Asia. It explores the forced sterilization of transgender people as a technique of biomedicalization and as a result of postcolonial sexual modernity. It examines the cultural politics of transgender kinship in the region. The author also provides an overview of the origin of the concept of transgender postcoloniality.