Prácticas médicas de la diferencia sexualLa regulación de los tránsitos en cuerpos "trans"

Resumen

In this paper we analyse how gender transits in transgender bodies are regulated in order to stabilize sexual difference and make it appear as “natural” and “unchangeable”. In most psychological, biomedical and judicial discourses on transgender identities, as well as in many activists and academic ones, emphasis is primarily settled on a movement from one gender pole to the other. Yet nowadays, there are several activists groups and certain academic tradition which have taken trans identities as models for gender disruption. Those groups criticize this version of sexual difference because it closes the possibility of recognizing those bodies who do not inhabit neither one pole nor the other. In a time where several voices strongly claim for the despathologization of trans identities, the regulations of gender transits do not seem to disappear, but to rearticulate in a new fashion that perpetuates gender poles as stable nodes of identity. However what counts as pathological seems to be transformed – as it emerges from the proposal of the American Psychiatric Association to modify “Gender Identity Disorder” first to “Gender Incongruence” and then to “Gender Dysphoria” in the forthcoming DSM-5 -.