Trans* necropolitics. Gender Identity Law in Argentina

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ID3060562
AuthorsMartin De Mauro Rucovsky (0000-0001-9423-9474, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, corresponding author)
Year2015
Issue20
Pages10-27
Publication date2015-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSexualidad Salud y Sociedad (Rio de Janeiro (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1984-6487 • E-ISSN: 1984-6487
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/1984-6487.sess.2015.20.04.a
OpenAlexW1826126600
SCIELO_PIDS1984-64872015000200010
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited4

On May 9th, 2012, the Argentinean Senate converted into law the long collective process, driven by trans* activism, towards the legal recognition of gender identity. The Gender Identity Act (GIA) meant a large contribution to the field of civil and sexual rights interationally, especially in the matter of trans* policy. Nevertheless, what was at stake in the approval of the GIA was not just a step forward in legal terms and at a personal level for trans* people, but a whole set of representations, desires and social stakes on trans* lives and population. Thus, as regards to the scope and achievements of the GIA and its social and parliamentary debates, we can assert that in that realm a specific trans* life does not qualify as a living life. This article addresses the specific ways of presentation and apprehension of trans* lives in parliamentary debates about the GIA, and in social disputes within trans* activism. A biopolitical analysis of gender identity leads us to rethink the social conditions that sustain life and, by the same token, the interpretative frameworks of death

Apprehension · Epistemology · Political science · Population · Realm · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Sex work and related issues

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