Policing the social body: Medicine and the administration of legal gender recognition in France and Italy, an historical perspective

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作者：
Fiorilli, Olivia [1 ]
机构：
[1] Ctr Rech Med Sci Sante Sante Mentale Soc Cermes3, 7 Rue Guy Moquet,BP 8, F-94801 Villejuif, France
来源：
STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE PART C-STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGICAL AND BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES | 2019年 / 78卷
基金：
欧洲研究理事会;
关键词：
Legal gender recognition; Trans medicine; Medicalization; Trans studies; Gender studies; TRANSSEXUALISM; SEX;
D O I：
10.1016/j.shpsc.2019.101182
中图分类号：
N09 [自然科学史]; B [哲学、宗教];
学科分类号：
01 ; 0101 ; 010108 ; 060207 ; 060305 ; 0712 ;
摘要：
This paper explores the role of medicine in the regulation of legal gender recognition for trans and gender diverse people in France and Italy. I focus on the processes that led the two countries to establish for the first time a procedure for legal gender change in the 1980s/1990s. Despite the differences, both in France and in Italy medical knowledge and technologies were embedded in the procedures for legal gender change and health professionals took a role as gatekeepers to gender recognition. The medicalization of legal gender recognition, I argue, was part of the deploying of a bio-political apparatus that aimed at regulating and controlling "gender transitions" through regulation and normalization rather then through repression.
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