Transsexualism: pathology, identity or process?

Abstract

An emergency in sex-gender identities that goes beyond the dialectical meaning of the sex-gender continuum exists as a normalizing schema in the recognition of the sexes and the rules of gender socialization between men and women in western cultures.Where the legal-social relevance of laws and rights are set out for debate over the complexity of human sexual diversity and one of its specific expressions: transsexuality.This process questions the bases and ideals underlying the foundations of simplified rational and naturalist systems that are debated, transformed, and denied given the existence of subjects that arise between the discursive constructions and constrictions of the state sex-gender system. The silence and negation of transsexuality has brought sequential, accumulative vulnerability manifested in stigma, social exclusion, discrimination, and violence toward individuals who experience this process, placing them in a state of denial and social negligence from the lack of legal status and recognition, as well as social integration. Hence the urgency of beginning an anthropological discussion of how to deal with the body and sexual subject in the west and how the transsexual person becomes a social exchange value or reinforcement for a society with a legal and ideological apparatus whose contemporary conceptualization with regard to sexgender-based identities are outdated and not longer applicable.