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TSQ (2019) 6 (1): 80–102.
Published: 01 February 2019
...Zara Saeidzadeh Abstract Sex-change surgery has been practiced through a medico-judicial process in Iran based on Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic juristic legal opinion (fatwa), which he issued just a few years after the Islamic revolution, in 1982. According to the Iranian legal system, judges can...
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TSQ (2018) 5 (4): 621–637.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., the author explains how sex change worked as a device in Chile during that period. Then, the author discusses a leaflet with photographs of Marcia Alejandra, configured according to the rhetoric of “before” and “after” her gender reassignment surgery, in order to analyze how these images published...
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TSQ (2016) 3 (1-2): 220–227.
Published: 01 May 2016
... in schools, few of them are able to have access to further education, let alone work in the faculty of a university. 9. Almost all the transsexuals who participated at ENTLAIDS in 2013 were female. 10. In 1997, the Federal Council of Medicine in Brazil regulated experimental sex-change surgery...
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TSQ (2024) 11 (3): 458–480.
Published: 01 August 2024
... it in words that could be Millot's, for Žižek, “transgenderism is ultimately an attempt to avoid (the anxiety of) castration” (2016a). Therefore, they fall back on immediate demand for recognition: “If the individual demands it, the demand has to be met by sex-changing surgery” (Žižek 2019 ). 15...
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TSQ (2022) 9 (3): 524–534.
Published: 01 August 2022
...) (see TRANSDEVI 1994 ). Founded in 1991, this organization advocated for legal gender recognition and for “sex change” surgeries within the country (Butierrez 2021 ). A few years later, also in Argentina, individuals who identified with transgender masculinity or manhood—including Mauro Cabral...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (3-4): 534–555.
Published: 01 November 2017
... (dir. Tom Hooper, 2015 ). In the movie, just before Lili Elbe is about to undergo a sex-change surgery never attempted before, she responds to warnings about the dangers involved by telling the surgeon, “This is not my body. I have to let it go.” What Lili wants to let go of is her penis. She imagines...
Journal Article
TSQ (2014) 1 (3): 320–337.
Published: 01 August 2014
... by a hierarchy between castration-penectomy (called chhibrano in the subcultural language) and the achievement of what trans women like Tista have termed their “complete” ( sampurna ) womanhood through “sex change” surgery ( Das 2013 ). Over the last few years, both of us have encountered kothis who identify...
Journal Article
TSQ (2018) 5 (2): 161–163.
Published: 01 May 2018
... those capacities for state and statelike ends (Taylor 2002 ). Seen in the light of transsexual surgery's history, modern reproductive medicine appears as a vast biopolitical apparatus for sex-changing us all, by subjecting reproduction to control and modulation by what Paul Preciado has called...
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TSQ (2016) 3 (3-4): 357–375.
Published: 01 November 2016
... sex-reassignment surgery as a basic health right. The Fourth Regional Federal Court argued in its ruling that “from the biomedical perspective, transsexuality can be described as a sexual identity disturbance where individuals need to change their sexual designation or face serious consequences...
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TSQ (2014) 1 (1-2): 205–207.
Published: 01 May 2014
... tissues, trans surgeries rewrite the functional and phenomenological circuitry of human bodies and change how subjects experience and express gender and sexuality. In doing so, trans bodies not only rewrite normative scripts of binary sex and gender. They are also (re)writing medical knowledge of human...
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TSQ (2018) 5 (2): 164–173.
Published: 01 May 2018
... status via surgical alteration of sex characteristics began long before the modern notion of “changing” sex to an opposed category. Surgeries that changed social status include circumcision; castration; penile subincision; cutting of the vulva, labia, and clitoris; vaginal obliteration; and interventions...
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TSQ (2018) 5 (2): 174–189.
Published: 01 May 2018
... patients into a politics of ressentiment. analogy cosmetic surgery transgender medicine gender norms Are surgeries to “change sex” like cosmetic surgery, or even just examples of it? Or are the two sets of elective procedures significantly different ethically and/or politically? More than...
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TSQ (2022) 9 (2): 160–171.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Iain Morland Abstract This essay critiques the practice of childhood genital surgery for intersex/disorders of sex development. The essay draws on the sociology of perception and poststructuralist theory (in particular Jacques Lacan) to analyze the subject position offered by surgery as a function...
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TSQ (2018) 5 (2): 228–244.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Katherine Rachlin Abstract People who want gender-affirming surgery without a change in social role represent a range of unique perspectives and use a range of self-descriptive terms, including transgender , transsexual , genderqueer , gender nonconforming , TGNC , nonbinary , and cross-dresser...
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TSQ (2021) 8 (4): 462–480.
Published: 01 November 2021
... Science Research . New York : Routledge . Manion Jen . 2020 . Female Husbands: A Trans History . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Meyerowitz Joanne . 2002 . How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press...
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TSQ (2018) 5 (4): 589–605.
Published: 01 November 2018
... organs entirely” and the second “to construct a vagina,” in Man into Woman , her surgeries include the transplantation of ovaries and, later, a uterus. These surgeries, moreover, are as much about rejuvenatio n as they are a means of changing the markers of Lili's bodily sex: by obtaining the ovaries...
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TSQ (2018) 5 (2): 190–206.
Published: 01 May 2018
..., which shows that [the genital surgery] is a small detail,” Laura told me in our first interview. She was using hormones, but she told me, as we sat in a cafe, that genital surgery was “extremely important.” After her surgery, Laura said, she would be able to change her legal sex marker, finish...
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TSQ (2018) 5 (2): 245–250.
Published: 01 May 2018
... functioned as gatekeeper. His job was to screen out individuals who were schizophrenic or had other underlying conditions that were manifesting as a desire to change sex. He was also collecting data. I remember being given a battery of tests: the Rorschach, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory...
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TSQ (2014) 1 (1-2): 165–168.
Published: 01 May 2014
... idealization of the other sex that represses sexual difference, the sinthome offers a way to understand transsexual surgery as “a means to claim one's desire” through giving meaning to one's embodiment (ibid.: 46). Gozlan describes transitioning as a “rebirthing of oneself,” but one that “accepts failure...
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TSQ (2018) 5 (3): 473–486.
Published: 01 August 2018
... gender-affirming surgeries are legally available and regulated by the “Sex change operation technical management standard” (变性手术技术管理规范), which was first published in 2002 and then updated in 2008, the process still functions under an oppressive set of requirements: notarized parental agreement, divorce...
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