(De)pathologization and power: reflections on the trans* collective

Abstract

The article aims to analyze, through history, the issue of trans pathologization*, which has been and still is widely opposed by various groups. The political debate on the issue (through calls for regulations and laws to regulate certain aspects of identity) has turned an individual issue such as identity into a collective one. The fact that it is a collective issue makes it impossible to separate biology from medicine, law or politics. It is this interdisciplinary nature that makes the trans* question so relevant today, and not without its controversy with other social movements, as social networks have been showing recently. However, it is the high visibility that the trans* question has gained through different means that makes it susceptible to multiple analyses, which, as mentioned above, are not limited to a single discipline or a single point of view.