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- Title
Transexualidad y agenda política: una historia de (dis)continuidades y patologización.
- Authors
PLATERO MÉNDEZ, Raquel
- Abstract
Transgenderism has recently become a political matter that has entered the Spanish political agenda. We are witnessing a socio-political scenario of growing inclusion of LGTB rights (lesbians, gays, transgenders and bisexuals) in the political debate, including key events such as the approval of same sex marriage (law 13/2005) and the right of transgender people to change their name in the register without having to go through compulsory surgery (Law 3/2007). The study of the discourses on transgenderism is relevant, as it shows the transformations in the sex/gender notions. Therefore, the political problem no longer lies in punishing criminal subjects who are breaking the law (as it was phrased in the 1970 Law on Persons Representing a Social Danger and their Social Rehabilitation), or subjects constructed as transvestites. In the eighties, a disclosure of the taboo of transgenderism starts to emerge (Garaizabal 1998:60); in the nineties, transgender people become subjects of social mobilization and, lastly in our decade, they succeed in achieving legal rights. Using a policy frame analysis, the article argues that despite the successful history of achievement of rights, the binary inscription of heteronormativity remains unquestioned.
- Subjects
LGBTQ+ rights; TRANSGENDER rights; LEGAL status of LGBTQ+ people; LEGAL status of transgender people; LEGAL status of transsexuals; HETERONORMATIVITY; TRANSGENDER identity; TRANSSEXUALISM; CROSS-dressers; INTERSEX people; TRANSGENDER people; GENDER-nonconforming people
- Publication
Politica y Sociedad, 2009, Vol 46, Issue 1/2, p107
- ISSN
1130-8001
- Publication type
Article