The most popular narrative about transsexuality suggests that some
people are born in the wrong body - that their bodies do not
correspond to their inner experience and that their bodies should
therefore be transformed. But in the view of the sociologist and
trans activist Miguel Misse, this narrative is a harmful myth. It
is rooted in a medical paradigm that typically leads to medical
intervention - to the use of hormones and surgical operations. By
proposing a particular solution (modifying one's body), doctors and
psychiatrists make it difficult for trans people to overcome
malaise about their body in other ways and prevent them from
recognizing the burden of social norms. Drawing on his own personal
experience, Misse makes the case for a different way of thinking
about trans embodiment which focuses on gender identity. The
trajectory that leads people to become trans is shaped by the
rigidity of gender norms, where the only two models available to
individuals are the masculine man and the feminine woman. But these
are not the only possible choices, and by critically interrogating
the rigidity of gender norms, Misse opens up a different way of
thinking about being trans, beyond the essentialism of the medical
paradigm.
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