... systems, transgender communities, and nontransfeminist scholars re/produce and re/enforce transnormativity by citing hegemonic gender norms. In the same way, they re/enforce and re/produce the hegemonic gender norms by citing transnormativity. In this essay, the author argues that transnormativities...

... scholarship about gender and sexuality, there is still a paucity of works dealing extensively with the complexities of trans studies. The book Trans Studies: The Challenge to Hetero/Homo Normativities , edited by Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel and Sarah Tobias and published in 2016, fits perfectly in this gap...

... legible within normative gender categories. Here we come full circle to the hegemonic experience of transsexuality as an untranslatable, for we can now observe how the necessity derived within capitalism of making transsexual subject positions meaningful in the reproduction of social relations has...

... of gender, while RPDR itself has steadily gained scholarly attention. Much of the literature, while acknowledging the potential for subversiveness, takes issue with its reproduction of hegemonic stereotypes. I review season 7, as well as the show's relation to some of the political economic elements...

... transnational, regional, and local levels of discourse and praxis, as evidenced in the relation between the hegemonic anglophone discourse of LGBTIQ identities recognized by the state and the development sector, on one hand, and forms of gender/sexual variance that are positioned as relatively regional or local...

... necessarily exceed the normative definition and practice of hegemonic family claims. Of course, hegemonic practices of family have evolved beyond the logic of blood, but one might argue that a notion of “blood relations” is still very much the basis of how even families made through adoption are generally...

... embodiments are read through governing hegemonic categories, and the identification of the individual as a particular race and gender is created through that process. In this way, the experiences of people who are passed as more than one race and/or gender can teach us about the structural norms of that...

... Erotics describes two-spirit as an umbrella term that denotes either historical indigenous constructions of gender that exist outside colonial normative binaries or contemporary indigenous people who reclaim/enact these roles within their local communities. The collection appears to privilege the use...

..., psychological determinisms, and the natural equivalence between body and identity all served as foundations to colonize varied corporealities and reaffirm the universality of the cissexual norm. 8 For Argentina, such protocols produced sex as constitutive of the ontological ends of gender and sexed bodies...

... gender performance as reflecting their desire to access class privilege, which in Mexico is inseparable from skin tonality, rather than their identification with hegemonic identities. I argue that the photographs of mujercitos point to processes of subjectivation different from those outlined in...

... culture, so that the gendered division of labor and what constitutes male work and female work connect to military service (Moon 2005 ). These hierarchies also stratify forms of masculinity both inside and outside the military, where militarized masculinity as an idealized and hegemonic version orients...

... erases and silences trans identities while simultaneously drawing attention to students' transgressions of binary gender norms. Despite the fact that schools like Siri's are mandated by law to provide LGBTQ students with safe spaces to learn, and despite progressive curricular interventions aimed at...

... transsexuality can hetero- and gender-normative trans people succeed in becoming legible, first as transsexuals in the diagnostic process and later, post transition, as “proper” men and women. These assimilating subjects not only reproduce the common perception of transgender individuals; they influence the self...

...). From the start, there is an epistemological roadblock produced, wherein students are encouraged to conceptualize “woman” and “trans” as discrete categories, and the narratives of trans folk are valuable only insofar as they prove the cultural contingency and constructedness of hegemonic gendering...

... dominant cultural norms as they construct gender in law. Rabbinic literature is primarily written in Tannaitic Hebrew and Aramaic (with additional loan words, mostly from Greek). Translating this text into English means negotiating the multilingualism of rabbinic literature and recognizing that...

... position; because of the way they are conflicting with sexual and gender normativity, it generates guilt in them. Biomedical technology lowers the individual guilt associated with the desire to transgress the culture of hegemonic gender, making it an inherent necessity of having been born “in the wrong...

... identity that posits genital surgery as essential (Jarrín 2016 ; Teixeira 2011 ), a consequence of the subordination of Brazilian categories to hegemonic science (Silva and Viera 2014 ). Yet even if initially grounded in a biomedical model, access to gender affirming care might be taken up in different...

... avoid assuming that people who transition necessarily or always seek normative gender configurations, while acknowledging that there is a depth and coherence to the term FTM . Trans chest may also refer to the chest of a woman who transforms her body without transitioning from female to male and...

... also guided by their own prejudices about which bodies are desirable within the Brazilian body politic—and demonstrate a clear bias toward gender-normative bodies in their choices of what surgeries to approve. Low-income patients are extremely conscious that not everyone will be granted access to...

...Fernanda Carvajal Abstract This article analyzes the use of images in the press coverage on the first trans woman in Chile who managed to successfully change her legal gender in 1974, under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, and who identified herself with the name of Marcia Alejandra. First...