{"title":"El campo judicial frente a la construcción corporal trans","authors":"Anahí Farji Neer","doi":"10.24215/18522971E030","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"espanol Hasta 2012 en Argentina era requisito contar con una autorizacion judicial para acceder al cambio registral de sexo y nombre asi como a los tratamientos medicos de construccion corporal. En este articulo se describen y analizan las respuestas judiciales a los pedidos para acceder a las intervenciones quirurgicas genitales por parte de personas trans en Argentina entre 1994 y 2008. A traves del analisis de contenido cualitativo de una seleccion de fallos se analizan los cambios en los argumentos y los discursos invocados por los/as operadores/as judiciales intervinientes. Sostengo que en un primer momento la corroboracion pericial del sufrimiento psiquico asociado a un trastorno de la identidad de genero permitio la produccion de una serie de fallos favorables a las solicitudes de las personas para acceder a cirugias genitales y otras intervenciones medicas orientadas a construir una imagen corporal acorde a su identidad de genero. En un segundo momento, la apelacion a los principios de la bioetica principialista permitio afirmar la autonomia de las personas que solicitaban autorizacion, y el acceso a las intervenciones medicas como una eleccion libre y no ya como el tratamiento indicado para una patologia. Sin embargo, afirmo que se trato de un concepto de autonomia opaco y menguado, ya que operadores/as judiciales debian evaluar el caracter plenamente autonomo de los deseos corporales de las personas trans para autorizar el acceso a los tratamientos medicos requeridos. EnglishThis article presents an analysis of five judicial responses to requests for access to genital surgical interventions by transgender people in Argentina. It analyses the period from 1994 to 2008, prior to the approval of the Argentinean Gender Identity Law. In that period it was mandatory to have a judicial authorization in order to modify the name and sex in official identity documents and to access to medical treatments in order to adapt the body to gender identity. Through the analysis of qualitative content of a selection of judicial decisions, changes in arguments and discourses produced by the judicial field are analyzed. The article seeks to contribute to theoretical and empirical studies that address the ways in which the judicial field manages bodily desires of the transgender people and transforms their discourses. I argue that the expert corroboration of the psychological suffering associated with a gender identity disorder allowed the production of a number of judicial decisions favorable to the requests of trans people in order to access genital surgeries and other medical interventions. Later, bioethics principles allowed affirming the autonomy of trans people who requested the access to medical interventions as a free choice and no longer as the indicated treatment for pathology. However, I affirm that it depicted an opaque concept of autonomy, since judicial operators had to evaluate the fully autonomous nature of the bodily and vital desires of trans people in order to authorize the access to the required medical treatments.","PeriodicalId":40988,"journal":{"name":"Derecho y Ciencias Sociales","volume":"146 1","pages":"166-182"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2018-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Derecho y Ciencias Sociales","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.24215/18522971E030","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"LAW","Score":null,"Total":0}
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espanol Hasta 2012 en Argentina era requisito contar con una autorizacion judicial para acceder al cambio registral de sexo y nombre asi como a los tratamientos medicos de construccion corporal. En este articulo se describen y analizan las respuestas judiciales a los pedidos para acceder a las intervenciones quirurgicas genitales por parte de personas trans en Argentina entre 1994 y 2008. A traves del analisis de contenido cualitativo de una seleccion de fallos se analizan los cambios en los argumentos y los discursos invocados por los/as operadores/as judiciales intervinientes. Sostengo que en un primer momento la corroboracion pericial del sufrimiento psiquico asociado a un trastorno de la identidad de genero permitio la produccion de una serie de fallos favorables a las solicitudes de las personas para acceder a cirugias genitales y otras intervenciones medicas orientadas a construir una imagen corporal acorde a su identidad de genero. En un segundo momento, la apelacion a los principios de la bioetica principialista permitio afirmar la autonomia de las personas que solicitaban autorizacion, y el acceso a las intervenciones medicas como una eleccion libre y no ya como el tratamiento indicado para una patologia. Sin embargo, afirmo que se trato de un concepto de autonomia opaco y menguado, ya que operadores/as judiciales debian evaluar el caracter plenamente autonomo de los deseos corporales de las personas trans para autorizar el acceso a los tratamientos medicos requeridos. EnglishThis article presents an analysis of five judicial responses to requests for access to genital surgical interventions by transgender people in Argentina. It analyses the period from 1994 to 2008, prior to the approval of the Argentinean Gender Identity Law. In that period it was mandatory to have a judicial authorization in order to modify the name and sex in official identity documents and to access to medical treatments in order to adapt the body to gender identity. Through the analysis of qualitative content of a selection of judicial decisions, changes in arguments and discourses produced by the judicial field are analyzed. The article seeks to contribute to theoretical and empirical studies that address the ways in which the judicial field manages bodily desires of the transgender people and transforms their discourses. I argue that the expert corroboration of the psychological suffering associated with a gender identity disorder allowed the production of a number of judicial decisions favorable to the requests of trans people in order to access genital surgeries and other medical interventions. Later, bioethics principles allowed affirming the autonomy of trans people who requested the access to medical interventions as a free choice and no longer as the indicated treatment for pathology. However, I affirm that it depicted an opaque concept of autonomy, since judicial operators had to evaluate the fully autonomous nature of the bodily and vital desires of trans people in order to authorize the access to the required medical treatments.