Trans/fat: an autoethnographic exploration of becoming at the intersection of trans and fat

IF 0.8 Q3 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY
Bek Orr
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ABSTRACT The fat body and the transgender body are expected to always be in a state of becoming. For fat bodies, becoming less fat, for transgender bodies, becoming more “congruent.” To be fat and/or transgender means coming into constant confrontation with social and cultural expectations about the fat and (trans)gendered body. It means navigating a medical system that considers one a problem to be solved with a careful and pre-determined set of solutions. It means diminished autonomy and little agency. Fat bodies and transgender bodies are often met with solutions based on gatekeeping versus informed consent. Fat bodies and trans bodies are often unwelcome and even made invisible in public spaces. When there are no chairs to fit fat bodies, and no bathrooms to include trans bodies, those bodies are erased, and the gender binary and body ideal reified. When transgender studies excludes discussion and acknowledgment of fat bodies and when fat studies excludes transgender bodies from their analysis or employs gender as a binary characteristic, fat trans bodies are disappeared, raising the question, how might thinking intersectionally reinvigorate both fields? This auto ethnographic exploration of navigating social and medical structures as a fat, trans/non-binary individual seeks to underscore the many commonalities inherent in anti-fat and (trans)gender oppression, and to highlight the ways these oppressions intersect to create unique barriers for fat, trans folks.
反式/脂肪:成为反式和脂肪交集的自我民族志探索
肥胖体和跨性别体总是被期望处于一种生成状态。对于肥胖的身体,变得不那么胖,对于跨性别的身体,变得更“一致”。肥胖和/或跨性别意味着不断与社会和文化对肥胖和(跨性别)身体的期望对抗。它意味着引导一个医疗系统,该系统认为一个问题需要通过仔细和预先确定的一套解决方案来解决。这意味着自主权的减少和代理的减少。肥胖的身体和跨性别的身体通常会遇到基于把关与知情同意的解决方案。胖子和变性人往往不受欢迎,甚至在公共场所被忽视。如果没有适合肥胖身体的椅子,没有适合跨性别者的浴室,这些身体就会被抹去,性别二元和理想身材就会具体化。当跨性别研究排除了对肥胖身体的讨论和承认,当肥胖研究将跨性别身体排除在他们的分析之外,或者将性别作为一种二元特征,肥胖的跨性别者就消失了,这就提出了一个问题,如何交叉思考才能重振这两个领域?这本以肥胖、跨性别/非二元个体的身份在社会和医疗结构中导航的自动人种学探索,旨在强调反肥胖和(跨性别)性别压迫中固有的许多共性,并强调这些压迫相互交叉的方式,为肥胖、跨性别人群创造了独特的障碍。
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