What is it about?
This paper examines the ways in which medical and legal policies work to regulate trans people's bodies and reinforce the sex-equals-gender binary.
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Why is it important?
This scholarship demonstrates the limitations of medical and legal regulation of trans bodies and identities and provides an alternative political framework that would improve trans people's lives.
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This paper is based on my Master's research on transnormativity.
Evan Vipond
York University
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This page is a summary of: Resisting Transnormativity: challenging the medicalization and regulation of trans bodies, Theory in Action, April 2015, Theory in Action,
DOI: 10.3798/tia.1937-0237.15008.
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