"Transsexuality" and gender ratio in Poland

A case study on the East/West dichotomy

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3666824
AutoresLudmiła Janion (0000-0002-7325-1172, American Studies Center, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume70
Fascículo11
Páginas2539-2559
Data de publicação2023-09-19
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Homosexuality (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0091-8369 • E-ISSN: 1540-3602
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00918369.2022.2071135
PMID35575760
OpenAlexW4280599583
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas41

The article investigates scientific and journalistic discourses around differences in gender ratio among trans persons. The disparity between Poland and many other countries that was first noted in the 1980s was repeatedly associated with the different gender politics in the capitalist West and the (post) state-socialist East. Using Foucauldian methodology, the article claims that this discourse was constructed such that Poland's ratio-and consequently Poland's gender order-would always appear problematic, while Western countries were considered an invisible standard. Discourses around this ratio elucidate the role of heteronormativity and biological essentialism in the construction of the category of "transsexuality" in state-socialist Poland. The analysis also reveals that chronologies of LGBT and feminist movements had direct consequences for the theoretical and cultural spaces of trans identities

Essentialism · Gender equality · Heteronormativity · Political science · Politics · Queer · Sociology · State (computer science · European history and politics · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy