Gender (trans)formations in Europe and beyond: Trans lives and politics from a transnational perspective

Aboim, Sofia; Vasconcelos, Pedro

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Aboim, Sofia

Vasconcelos, Pedro

Abstract(s)

Focusing on trans and gender-diverse people in five European countries (Portugal, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Sweden), the Transrights research addressed one of the most challenging transformations of the institutional order of gender that thus far still reproduces the normative opposition between male and female. Rather than proposing a descriptive monograph, our angle of analysis emphasized the workings of gender through the ‘voices’ of trans people (within and beyond Europe) and their complex forms of self-identification vis-àvis the institutional apparatus (whether legal, medical, political or even socialscientific). Drawing on an extensive empirical research that combined document analysis of legal and medical developments, multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interviews, we investigated the doings of gender and gender politics. Three major findings are highlighted and summarized through a comparative strategy: trans/gender identifications, creative agency and embodiments; institutional and legal recognition vis-à-vis the medical apparatus and the “marketization” of trans-related healthcare; and discrimination, oppression and violence.

Keywords

trans people trans rights gender identity gender order

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http://hdl.handle.net/10451/56613

Citation

Accepted version of: Aboim, S., Vasconcelos, P. (2021). Gender (trans)formations in Europe and beyond: Trans lives and politics from a transnational perspective. Portuguese Journal of Social Science, 20, Issue The Portuguese Rainbow: LGBTQI+ Rights and Experiences, p. 131-151.