Document Type
Poster
Publication Date
Summer 2024
Abstract
In the last ten years, transnormativity as a concept has seen a dramatic increase in the field of transgender studies, though it still remains incredibly undertheorized. The sources reviewed in this project discuss how transnormative ideology has shaped and continues to influence narratives of transness and transition, popular trans discourses, trans politics, trans affect and feeling, and the construction of transness and trans identity, as well as, crucially, trans studies itself and the significance of transnormativity to trans studies as a field. Each views transnormativity as a fundamentally conservative and constraining force that aims to maintain a normative system of gender through the construction of transness as a social category that can contain and regulate gender diversity.
Recommended Citation
Jacobs, Theo Gillis and Johnson, Austin H., "On Structural Transnormativity 10 Years Later" (2024). Kenyon Summer Science Scholars Program. Paper 742.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/summerscienceprogram/742