Abstract

CRISTI DONOSO, Dariela Milen. Politics of identity and sexual management of the bodies: an analysis of legislative speeches about the state management of the trans conflict in Chile. La ventana [online]. 2021, vol.6, n.53, pp.276-312.  Epub Feb 23, 2021. ISSN 1405-9436.

In recent years on Chile, we have seen an increase in public politics related to gender identity, in the attempt to provide solutions to the problem that it means for trans identities to develop in a social and political-administrative structure that excludes them. In this context, this paper proposes a problematization of the legislative discourses about the state management of the trans conflict, in order to analyze what have been the new modalities of the integration of sexually dissident identities, how they have been configured, and what implications they have for the Chilean socio-political scene.

This research is based on the approaches of legal sociology, feminist and governmentality theory. The methodology used was a documentary research and the critical discourse analysis, of all documents officially issued by the executive and the legislative branch of Chile between 2007 and 2017. The main results of this research point to biomedical science as the epistemological paradigm from which legislative discourses are based. On the other hand, an ideological matrix is identified based on a linear causal relationship, between sex-gender-body, as an axiom of the hegemonic conception concerning the trans problematic. In that sense, we have evidenced how government strategies have delimited those sexual identities that put binary taxonomy in tension, under the frameworks of the intelligibility same conceptual matrix that excludes them, and with this, they have configured new modalities of standardization. This is key for the reconfiguration of an exclusionary citizenship, insofar as the socio-sexual norms that define the emerging notions of the figure of the citizen are institutionalized, evidencing that is framed in the borders of non-being to all corporality that does not manifest under the margins of intelligibility imposed by the scientific-colonial logic and the political-administrative structure.

Keywords : gender identity; public policies; trans conflict; sexed body; legislative discourses.

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