Democratization of the access to biomedical technologies of body intervention in transgender people on the current Argentine scene

DELLACASA, MARÍA ALEJANDRA

Río de Janeiro

Congreso; 25 th International Congress of History of Science and Technology; 2017

Sociedad Brasilera de Historia de la Cienica e International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology

AbstractThis paper looks at the process from the production of knowledge and biomedical categories around sex-generic identities, to the recent changes in the ways of representing transgender people as legal subjects against the Argentine state. We will star by undoing the delimitation of a specific area of knowledge and intervention on the bodies, which intends to address transsexuality as a medicalization experience. We analyze the process that begin with a patient born in a ?wrong body? to the empowerment and positioning from that body as a vehicle, to demand and negotiate other possibilities of being in the world. In this paper, we look deeper around the particularities that transsexuality?s medical device acquired from the intervention in the political scene of sexual identity organizations, which greatly distance itself from patologization, without disassociate completely from medicalization. Therefore, is this last instance which enables them body interventions, hormonal and surgical, in public services.