Congress Paper Abstract

Transsexuality and Citizenship in Contemporary Argentina

MAURO CABRAL PH.D SCHOLLAR, UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA, ARGENTINA. ACTIVISTS (TRANS-INTERSEX), AFFILIATIONS: REDTRANS (ARGENTINA); INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD OF THE INTERNATIONAL GAY AND LESBIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMISSION (IGLHRC)

This paper will address the relationship between transsexuality and citizenship in contemporary Argentina, considering the historical period between the re- establishment of democratic governments in 1983 and the election of President Kischner in 2003.

That relationship will be examined through a particular focus on a special field of construction of ethical and political subjectivities: legal discourse. The principal hypothesis to be developed is that transsexual subjects are constructed within the different discourses (and therefore performativities) of the Law in ways that imply a seriously damaged transsexual citizenship, considering especially sexual and reproductive rights. Adding a theoretical framework from Arendtian and Derridean conceptualizations of foreignness and otherness, this damaged transsexual citizenship will be also interpreted from a human rights perspective.

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