Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1215/23289252-9836176
Gina Gwenffrewi
This autoethnographic article attempts to capture the distress of a trans woman in Scotland at the transphobia in the legacy media's coverage of the J. K. Rowling furore in June 2020. Through the use of a frame narrative, the article analyses some of the transphobic elements of Rowling's essay published on June 10, 2020, originally titled “TERF Wars,” which prompted an online backlash and a subsequent cycle of negative legacy media coverage against trans people. The article deconstructs two opinion pieces in the Scotsman and the National that depict Rowling as a victim and trans women as abusive and/or delusional, with an accompanying association of trans women with virtual spaces, set against cis women inhabiting real-world spaces. The newspapers' subsequent, respective refusal to publish counter articles criticizing the opinion pieces is then described, with reference to the legacy media's more general cancel-culture narrative, described by Sara Ahmed as a “mechanism of power.” Concluding on the experience of having no personal voice or access to the kind of influence enjoyed by a transphobic legacy media, the article refers to Andrew Anastasia's conception of three modes of transgender voice to identify how only collective action can allow trans voices to be heard and effect change.
这篇自传体人种学文章试图捕捉苏格兰一名跨性别女性在传统媒体对2020年6月j·k·罗琳(J. K. Rowling)风波的报道中对跨性别者的恐惧。通过使用框架叙事，本文分析了罗琳于2020年6月10日发表的一篇文章中的一些跨性别因素，这篇文章最初的标题是“TERF战争”，这篇文章引发了网上的强烈反对，随后又引发了媒体对跨性别者的负面报道。这篇文章解构了《苏格兰人报》和《国家报》上的两篇评论文章，这两篇文章把罗琳描绘成受害者，把跨性别女性描绘成虐待者和/或妄想症患者，并将跨性别女性与虚拟空间联系起来，以反对居住在现实世界空间中的顺性别女性。随后，两家报纸各自拒绝发表批评这些观点的反驳文章，参照传统媒体更普遍的取消文化叙事，萨拉·艾哈迈德(Sara Ahmed)将其描述为一种“权力机制”。文章以没有个人声音或无法获得跨性别传统媒体所享有的那种影响的经历为总结，引用Andrew Anastasia关于跨性别声音的三种模式的概念，以确定如何只有集体行动才能让跨性别声音被听到并产生改变。
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Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1215/23289252-9836078
C. Libby
A recent pastoral guide designed to help Christians better understand “transgender individuals and the broader ideological movement” took a seemingly bizarre turn when it urged readers to sympathize with radical feminist concerns about the safety of women and the increasing threat to their very identity. While the depiction of the dangerous trans subject as a potential source of injury is nothing new, the increasingly frequent evangelical reliance on affectively charged rhetoric mimicking trans-exclusionary radical feminist writing is surprising enough to merit further investigation. This essay analyzes and responds to the burgeoning connections between trans-exclusionary radical feminism, “gender critical” writing, and transphobic evangelical Christian rhetoric by arguing that their affective resonance, predicated on the proper cultivation of sympathy, fear, and hatred, is made possible by a shared commitment to a dimorphic conception of sex difference and the politics of injury.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1215/23289252-9836064
Mikey Elster
This article examines media that couches criticism of trans medicine, pediatrics, and activism in terms of “care” or “concern” for trans people and youth in particular. It identifies these as “insidious concerns,” speech acts, utterances, and proclamations that would harm that which they claim to care for or about. It proceeds to argue that this type of discourse is endemic to a wider crisis of social reproduction exacerbated by neoliberal economic restructuring. Through historical contextualization, cultural analysis, and ethnography, this article highlights the racist, nationalist, and reactionary undercurrents motivating the current trans panic in the United States. It concludes that theoretical attention to social reproduction might offer new insights for trans studies that can act as counterdiscourse to “insidious concern.”
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Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1215/23289252-9612921
Melva Lewis
This article coins the term Intersex Justice Pedagogy and outlines this practice as a decolonial and intersectional teaching and learning praxis that affirms bodily integrity and bodily autonomy as the practice of liberation for intersex people of color. The author examines the personal, political, and pedagogical exigency for a pedagogy that centers voices from overlapping and interlocking intersex, queer, trans, nonbinary, and feminist communities of color, and takes a critical approach to examining paradigms of power, sovereignty, and “the science of sex” in a social world. Using specific examples of texts and approaches to teaching and learning, this article inspires an examination of pedagogical approaches, not only to teaching intersex and trans studies, but also to teaching social justice, with an emphasis on bodily autonomy and bodily integrity from multiple disciplinary/interdisciplinary locations and perspectives.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1215/23289252-9612795
Thelma Wang
There is an abundance of neuroscientific research seeking to pin down the origins of transgender people's gender identity in the brain. The established premise is that transgender people have a brain structure more in line with the sex group with which they identify than the one they are assigned to at birth. Transgender is imagined as a form of intersexuality—but of the brain, rather than the genitalia. This article aims to critically interrogate the neuroscientific notion of transgender as brain intersex by situating the neuroscientific understanding of trans people within the genealogy of the medical management of transgender and intersex people. The study also examines how medical authority consolidates itself through the “trans-intersex nexus”—a mechanism in which trans and intersex people are placed in a relationship of simultaneous separation and reinforcement under the control of medical knowledge and technologies.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1215/23289252-9613033
Derek P. Siegel
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Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1215/23289252-9612879
Jazz Bell
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