Sex for Law, Sex for Psychiatry: Pre-Sex Reassignment Surgical Psychotherapy in Turkey

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  • Aslı Zengin University of Toronto

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trans studies, gender, law, medicine, the body, temporality

Résumé

In Turkey, production of "transsexuality" as a medico
legal category dates back to 1988. Amendments in 2002 to the
regulation of sexual transition shaped their present form, which
requires psychiatric observation during the transition period,
putting trans people under strict institutional supervision and
evaluating them in terms of their gender role performance.
Focusing on trans peoples' experiences of psychiatric observa
tion, this paper illustrates the medical steps trans people take
to collect evidence of their "true" sex, and shows how psychia
trists evaluate these steps. It explores how negotiations between
doctors and trans people work upon conflicting meanings of
bodily time, sex, gender and sexuality.

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Publié-e

2014-04-30

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Zengin, A. (2014). Sex for Law, Sex for Psychiatry: Pre-Sex Reassignment Surgical Psychotherapy in Turkey. Anthropologica, 56(1), 55–68. Consulté à l’adresse https://cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/631

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