GNDS 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Endocrinology, Androgyny, Paradigm Shift

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Gender Studies
• Course: GNDS 120
• Professor: Scott Morgensen

Document Summary

Transition became the term for describing the process or experience of changing gender in the late 20th century. Before trans people were sent from psychiatrist, through the endocrinologist, to the surgeon, to the judge. T(cid:396)a(cid:374)sitio(cid:374) (cid:449)eighs hea(cid:448)il(cid:455) o(cid:374) people (cid:449)ho do(cid:374)(cid:859)t ha(cid:448)e (cid:396)esou(cid:396)(cid:272)es fo(cid:396) t(cid:396)a(cid:374)sitio(cid:374)i(cid:374)g: poor and/or uninsured people and those whose gender expression is not formed in relation to dominant white european american conventions. Now the term transition encompasses all 3. Transitions are evaluated as successful when our presentation seamlessly supports our claims (appear as the sex you claim to be) Surveillance two major forms of surveillance operate through medical and psychiatric institutions. 1 = monitoring of individuals ability to conform to a medicalized understanding of transgender identity. 2 = the expectation that medical transition should enable those individuals to withstand any scrutiny that would reveal their transgender status. Whiteness is structured around class and status recognition that gendered attributes of maleness or femaleness are intercepted by whiteness.