Why Disability Studies Scholars Must Challenge Transmisogyny and Transphobia
Why Disability Studies Scholars Must Challenge Transmisogyny and Transphobia
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DOI：
10.15353/cjds.v7i2.424
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发表时间：
2018-07
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J. Slater;K. Liddiard
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作者：
J. Slater;K. Liddiard
我们认为有必要在变性人和残疾研究与激进主义之间建立联盟，残疾研究为我们提供了这项任务的工具。我们的论点基于六个方面。首先，我们明确承认跨性残疾人的存在，认为残疾研究必须认识到残疾人生活的多样性。其次，我们考虑了女性身份的同质化是如何伤害非残疾跨性女性和顺式残疾女性的，这种同质化在跨性别论调中经常被采用，尤其是在那些自称是女权主义者的人身上。这就引出了我们的第三点，女权主义的残疾研究必须是反还原的，探索性别经历如何依赖于其他社会地位(残疾、同性恋、种族等)。第四，我们反思残疾研究和女权主义为争取身体自主而共同奋斗的方式，这应该包括跨性别者的身体自主。最后，我们认为，跨残疾研究和激进主义与医学有着复杂和关键的关系，使残疾和跨残疾研究在争取更好的全民医疗保健方面成为有用的盟友。最后，我们呼吁残疾研究的同事挑战变态和变性者恐惧症，变性者恐惧症与残疾研究的观点不相容。
We argue the need for coalition between trans and disability studies and activism, and that Disability Studies gives us the tools for this task. Our argument rests upon six facets. First and foremost, we explicitly acknowledge the existence of trans disabled people, arguing that Disability Studies must recognise the diversity of disabled people’s lives. Second, we consider how the homogenisation of womanhood, too often employed in transmisogonist arguments particularly when coming from those claiming to be feminists, harm both non-disabled trans women and cis disabled women. This leads to our third point, that Feminist Disability studies must be anti-reductive, exploring how gendered experiences rest upon other social positions (disability, queerness, race etc.) Fourth, we reflect upon the ways in which Disability Studies and feminism share a struggle for bodily autonomy, and that this should include trans people’s bodily autonomy. Finally, we argue that Trans and Disability Studies and activism share complex and critical relationships with medicine, making Disability and Trans Studies useful allies in the fight for better universal health care. We conclude by calling for our colleagues in Disability Studies to challenge transmisogony and transphobia and that transphobia is not compatible with Disability Studies perspectives.