Transnationalizing Transgender: Tracey, Queer Globalities, and Sinophone Regionalism Available to Purchase

This chapter demonstrates that studying queer Hong Kong requires an alternative framework of “queer globalities.” Conceptually, queer globalities illustrate the convergent dynamics of global queer rights discourses, local geopolitics, and so-called pink capitalism within the global modernities of queer Asia. The first part of the chapter offers a critical legal analysis of trans rights in Hong Kong. Next, it provides a queer transnational analysis of Jun Li’s film Tracey (2018) by mapping the condition of being trans through multiple queer temporalities and transnational spaces. It then contrasts Tracey with Maisy Suen’s film A Woman Is a Woman (2018), which narrates the struggle of a married transwoman named Sung Chi Yu and the life of a feminine high school boy, Chiu Ling Fung. The chapter concludes with an analysis of a successful series of photo exhibitions featuring trans subjects and public workshops inspired by Suen’s film.